Orphanage Donations!

One thing that adoptive parents will often do when adopting from Russia is gather items for an orphanage donation.

These items can be (but ofcourse are not limited to):

• Warm Clothing
• Shoes
• Snow pants, snowsuits and winter jackets
• Hats, mittens

Another couple over at Adding A Burden have identified the following as the most needed items:

• Children’s Tylenol and Children’s Advil
• Neosporin and Benadryl Skin Cream
• Expectorants and Antihistamines
• Disinfectants
• Children’s Allergy Medicines
• Multi-Vitamins
• First Aid Dressing Materials
• Desitin

So Adam and I decided to put an ad on Kijiji asking for donations of clothing. You can see the add here.

Well, we asked and someone already answered! A lovely lady with a new baby at home got in touch offering us some warm clothes that her Little One has already out grown or hasn't worn. We went over tonight to pick the items up and when we got home and opened the bag we were shocked at her generosity!

And look at this adorable moose hat! I would love to keep it for our Little One but it would be too small. So we'll take it to Russia as a little token of Canada!

Perhaps Aunty could make one . . . ?

Also today, I received the 4 (FOUR!!!) original birth certificates I had to order. They have a lot of security features in them and it makes them look so pretty! It doesn't look like a fundamental legal document at all!

Next on the list is paperwork (yes, there's more), blood work on doctor appointments on Thursday and officially registering with our agency!