We Have Our Travel Dates!!!

Have you noticed that all the recent entry headers have ended with multiple exclamation marks? Apparently the posts about frustrating wait times are a thing of the past. I have a feeling that the tone of the next several entries may be that of panic!
I must say that I am very impressed with Children's House International. They have done a very good job for us. As promised, they contacted the U.S. consulate ASAP and have gotten us our consulate appointment! Here's an excerpt from the email message we received:

From: Stefani
Date: August 29, 2005 8:45:24 AM PDT
To: Tina Ocheltree

Subject: appointment confirmations -- as we hoped!


YEEEEHAAAAAW!!! The Consulate has done well and has already confirmed your appointment times.

The three of you Northern WA families will need to be in your provinces no later than Sunday evening 9/18 for Gotcha Day on 9/19. Your Consulate appointments are on 9/26. You will be free to return to the US on 9/28.

You may now go ahead and BOOK your flight tickets. If you can get tickets from the US all the way into your provincial capital where the adoption takes place that is easiest. BOIT will take care of getting you from the provincial capital to Guangzhou and back to your departing city from China. BOIT will also take care of all hotel arrangements. You just sit back and get packed and let BOIT figure the rest of your trip out.

I know you have waited, and waited and now you are going to have to run like the dickens to get everything ready. Let the packing/flight booking race begin in earnest!!

So there's our schedule! We leave in exactly 2 and half weeks and will have Kai on Monday, September 19th.
I think there's still some packing to do...
I wonder if we should do any baby proofing?
Probably should get those airline tickets now...
There's a billion things I'm forgetting

--better go... I promise to post again after we catch our breath (gotta remember to breath)