Cheezer and Louzer

Here’s a long-ish video showing Sean’s explanation of his new drawing:
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Here’s a shorter video of Sean roadmapping the go-to-sleep process:
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Both of these videos are a few MB in size, so if you have a dial-up they’re going to take *forever* to download. Sorry.

Sean made this picture of Caesar today and as far as we know it was his first representational drawing. We were so happy we recorded video. If I can get it into the PC, I will put a copy up here.

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We’ve got some pictures up from our camping trip this last weekend, in the photo albums. Check ‘em out.

http://www.caesarandlouie.com/gallery/BeachCamping

Today we went to the Sherriff’s station down south to request Letters of Good Conduct (my capitalization). The adoption agencies like to see those since you can only get one if your police record over the last few years is clean. That makes sense, of course. We also made a request of our credit union to send CCAI a letter confirming our income and the usual balances on our accounts. That, IMO, is really none of their business as long as the checks we write them don’t bounce, but now that we’re this far I don’t have too many options. We really want a little girl to join our happy family, so….

Oh! Did I mention that my next thing is to get a physical exam? A complete one, including urinalysis. It’s like life in a gulag, I’m telling ya.

Yes, the rumors are true. I did buy Caesar a dog stroller. It’s nicer than Sean’s old stroller! I didn’t think there was such a thing as a dog stroller, but they do exist. Very snazzy, too! Caesar did take it out for a test drive the day it was delivered, but I have yet to get any pictures of him in it. It’s been too blazin’ hot to venture out, so I’ll post some pix when it cools down. He does adore it. Quite fitting for His Royal Highness. Should anyone see the dog’s lawyer. please pass this information along, as the Seedy Lawyer is always trying to land me in jail for pug abuse.
In the past, he has accused me of keeping the pugs like slaves in squalid conditions, without food, and very little pay for work done. I do have evidence to the contrary for many of these accusations, but the lawyer always manages to twist my words and accusations fly regarding photo-doctoring. Since I hardly have the time to fire-up PhotoShop, that point is just ridiculous. Tah for now.

I’ve spent the last 3 weeks or so trying to gather the financial docs together for our Home Study, and get fingerprinted (twice). I applied for my Passport (the picture is horrible!). The woman taking my picture said “you sure don’t look like you’re happy to go to China”. I thought you weren’t supposed to smile in this photos, but apparently you can. Maybe next time. We finally got our health insurance coverage settled, so it’s off the the doctors for all of us for physicals. Even Sean needs a physical. Both CCAI and AO (our Home Study agency) need their own separate forms filled out. One of them needs the docs notarized and the other does not. Due to my ever-decreasing memory-issues(read – parent), I’ll bring my entire adoption binder with the 50 pages of instructions for each agency.
At the end of all this paperwork, I think I’ll have made the notary a very happy camper.
I think we might actually be close to finishing most of the documentation. I do hesitate to say that because we still need to notarize, certify, and authenicate everything.
All this paperwork is NOTHING compared to the fertility rounds every month, so any paperwork is a cakewalk, and I shouldn’t complain. I would hope that any government that gracious enough to let others adopt it’s children, would also make sure the kids are getting the best possible home with responsible parents.
That’s all for now. Terribly boring, but making progress.