getting ready!

We had a great day of cleaning, yardwork, and home improvement on Sunday. Thanks so much to all of you who came out to help!

We're getting to the final stages. We made an initial packing list last week, went shopping, and then yesterday added more stuff and went shopping again. All kinds of little things - snacks and food for us, random infant medicines (just in case), little plastic bags for throwing away diapers, other various stuff, and even a playpen for my office (yes, that's the kind of cool place I work).

I don't have much time today to write but wanted to post Meredith's (probably) passport photo. She'll be traveling to the U.S. on her Russian passport and then when she arrives on U.S. soil she'll be a citizen and we will get her U.S. passport. Among other things, it will allow her into Canada without a visa (which is required for Russians). We tried several times to get a good shot (actually our facilitator mostly did) and this was our best one -- a little funny but adorable!