[JenWen]

I put together a scrapbook too. I am not sure what the final age of our child or the gender is going to be. Our range has morphed a little bit. As of last weekend it's 7-10 yrs. So, the scrapbook had to be appropriate for any of those ages.

We did our with a yesterday, today, tomorrow theme. The first page has our last name, so they can become accustomed to it. It also has a little chalkboard with eraser & chalk (all velcroed on) and we wrote "Welcome Home" on it. We included pics of the house, grandma and grandpa (who they will see all the time), us, and all of our pets. We put on the My Parents page multiple pics of us doing different things and what we were looking forward to doing with them.. what kinds of things we liked doing too, so they could get a feel for our personalities. We also included pets personalities. And we wrote in there that we left a bunch of pictures blank for pictures they may have that they want to put in there and for future pics. I took to heart the advice I read about not overwhelming them with too much info. We didn't directly reference our pool or put a pic of their room. Just an arrow to where their room is on the picture of the house. I am thinking during transition I can make other pages and give them one or two pages each time we visit. Maybe during transition we can make a page together. I'm also interested in giving them a disposable camera for pics of their current friends and foster family. My book is an 8X10. I'm thinking about putting in some pics of kids that we are friends with too.. neighbors and friends children that they will meet. Not sure though. That would probably be a page to be added after the initial scrapbook introduction.

Someone else had a cute idea.. to do it from the perspective of a pet. I didn't see that before I did mine. I liked the idea a lot tho.

Good luck with your scrapbook!

Jen