Busy Saturday

Hi All,
I had a very busy Saturday getting ready. Crazy to think that we have 5-7 months to wait for our little Brody to come home. But this gives us the opportunity to prepare the house, us and of course the pugs.
Changes have already begun in the house. A toy box was bought. It's not really a toy box, but rather a shelving unit with red, navy, green & blue tubs to hold all his toys, books, and art supplies. It's slowly filing up. 1 tub of books already, and of course GOODNIGHT MOON was bought and ready for him to read, a bunch of Disney books too. 1 tub with some coloring books. 1 tub with his first teddy bear, courtesy of his GodParents Lee & Ernie (hi Auntie Lee & Uncle Ernie), the only other tub that has something in it........ the USMC Bulldog!!! getting him ready?!?!?!?! So that leaves blocks to be bought, toy cars, legos, etc.
Thursday night we went to the furniture store and picked out Brody's bedroom set. A nice twin size bed, headboard & footboard, with a trundle under neat, incase he get's scared at night and wants one of us to stay with him, incase he's sick and wants one of us to stay with him.....or when he's ready for sleep overs!!! The dresser is great, 6 drawers, and of course a night stand. We'll have it all delivered some time at the end of October probably.
But today we bought the mattress for his bed, nice pillow top, and the mattress for the trundle, not bad (hoping I don't sleep on it every night).
I want to start to decorate too, so today I went to Michael's Craft store and bought the wooden letters for his name. I painted them tonight bright colors, Navy, Red, Yellow, Green & Light Blue. Tomorrow once completely dry, I'll decorate, dots, stripes?!?!?!?! I'll then hang them in this room at an arch....... hopefully once we get the bedroom furniture it will really start to look like his room.
We have only bought him 1 pair of pants & 2 shirts so far. Thanks to a friend, Anita, we learned a lot about him and his size over this weekend. He's short, but he's got some chub on him!!!! And to answer my previous thoughts of shoes, I was told that he did have shoes when Anita & Lois meet him, but socks may be a new thing. Other new things, flushing the toilets!!! It's great knowing these little things about him and the orphanage. A lot more than just that, but I won't freak everyone out.....just yet! But one last thing out our little Brody.... He likes cookies!!! As long as we can squeeze Ice Cream in there with his food likes, we'll be good!

Emotion today: excited & scared.

Cheers,

Julz, Scott & Brody