Pictures!

No, we can't show pictures of the children yet. We do have pictures of their rooms, though. Here is the two boys' room.

If one wants to share with Alex, instead, he has a bunk bed in his room. But we expect the two new boys to want to be together at first. The two twin bed frames were the ones Chrissy's mother and aunt used when they were little girls in the Lithgow household. They are a nice walnut, and we had them refinished several years ago, after removing layers of paint.

This is the little girl's room. Some decorations were given to us by a friend from church who was on our Peru trip in 2009. The bed frame is the one used by Chrissy's dad when he was a boy. We bought the bedspread new and just have to add things to the walls.

The house is ready. We're excited.

The National Benefits Center (NBC) for Hague Adoption has cleared our i-800 application. It is on its way (electronically) to the US embassy in Lima. They will review and confirm the application, then notify the State Dept. to issue an official notice that will allow us to travel. We're currently looking at Oct. 8 or 15 as possible dates to head to Peru. We would then leave very early on a Monday morning to fly to Andahuaylas, up in the mountains, bringing along our attorney and a social worker from SNA in Lima, because there is no permanent adoption office in the city. We will stay there for about a week, then return to Lima to complete the adoption and await clearance to return home.