Paint

We painted our child’s bedroom this week.  It’s kind of a medium to dark brown-ish.  We are calling it the Nestle room because it looks like Nestle Quik.  Painting the room was a good step to make everything seem a little more real.  I’ve never really noticed what people do to prepare when they are expecting a baby.  Mainly, when do they start setting up the nursery or room and when do you start buying things like clothes and toys?  Anyway, we painted the room and we’ve already accumulated a number of items that make our house pretty kid-friendly.  For example, a huge stuffed panda bear.  I know very little about pandas except that if you are adopting a child from Asia you need one.  We also have a collection of size 4T clothes.  Shirts, pajamas, khakis… It’s kind of funny how big they look already.  I mean, a 4-year-old is kind of big for your first child.  Am I going to be able to keep up?  Also, we are starting to get some children’s books.  Katie and I went to Borders this weekend and had a really good time looking at the different books and trying to decide what kind of things he might be interested in.  We are pretty sure he is going to think dinosaurs are really cool.  We know from some of the paperwork that he likes Barney and Elmo.  So obviously we are really going to push the whole dinosaur thing :)  … I think we are doing OK with the process as a whole.  The last few months have been kind of unique because we really want to be excited but because of the unknowns we are still trying to be cautious.  Cautious of what?  I don’t know really.  Do you ever watch the Bachelor?   You know, the gals that get eliminated on the first 2 or 3 shows are going to be OK.  They haven’t really invested much.  But if you get eliminated at the end of the season it’s a pretty big deal.  The longer the potential, the greater the potential loss.  Did I really just relate our adoption to a really lame tv show?  The comparison is not exactly the same.  Mainly because we know that God is sovereign over everything including how and when our family is put together.  And that pretty much sums it up.  God is in control. --Brian