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When we adopted, the whole adoption took only 40 days from start to finish. And even with THAT warp-speed adoption, I was afraid to buy anything, lest something fall through. Plus I figured that since he was going on 10 months old that he'd come with some clothes.
Then with less than 2 weeks to go, our lawyer called and told me that she thought I had better come prepared with clothes for our soon-to-be son, because he was wearing old worn-out, secon-hand things. So I had to go shopping quick. And of course, by then it was the last week in July. Do you know what's in stores in late July? WINTER CLOTHES!
My mom and I ended up going through the sales racks in three malls to get a wardrobe to last until winter. As for furniture, etc., we borrowed a crib from a friend and two days before we left to get our son, we yanked the bed out of the guest room and put in the crib and a rocking chair (which had been living in another room). No fancy bedding, no changing tables, no baby theme in the room -- though the guest room was painted a pale green with a border of peach-colored tulips. Then the day before we left, I went through the dicount drug store and filled a cart with diapers, wipes, baby thermometers, you name it. Dropped about $150!
Once we had the baby -- who wore size 24 months BTW -- we filled in the gaps in his wardrobe at an outlet mall. That was loads of fun, since we got to explain that we'd just adopted him and the sales ladies all gushed and helped us with everything.
As for winter clothes, well, I didn't have to worry about those. Three baby showers later, I had enough clothes for TWO kids!
Robin
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