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A three year old will be small and light and probably pretty easy for you cart around. Carrying her around will greatly help you start with your attachment work. There are slings for carting around toddlers. You might want to look into one.

We got nothing but two naked kids at pick up. We knew to expect this so we were well prepared. None of the items we left were around that we could see. But our oldest, who was 3 years at adoption very much remembered all the items we gave him during our visits. We had something new for him everyday we saw him.

We were very lucky to visit with our children everyday for about 1.5 hours. We were there for 6 days trip one. We got custody of the kids right after court trip two so be sure to ask your facilitator about what you need trip two for your child and when the child is left in your care - some people do not get custody of the child during the 10 day wait. I always recommend that people get the email address of the facilitator so you can send questions between trips if needed. I know many agencies frown on this, but I would still ask.

We did leave a disposable camera with the director trip one. That was given back to us and although it was a bit hard to look at those pictures (our boy looked miserable in almost all of them) we are very happy to have them now.

All the best!
Christina