Showing posts with label home study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home study. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Preparing the House

We have finished preparing the house for the Fost-Adopt home studies. We will have two: one for DCFS (LA County), and one for the state of California. Here is the general breakdown of what we have done to our condo to prepare:

Installed baby-proof latches on all our drawers and cabinets
Installed safety device on the mini blind cords
Installed 3 baby gates (hooray for 2 flights of stairs!)
Bought/Installed a fire extinguisher in the kitchen
Found all the utility/emergency numbers and posted them by the telephone
Bought a locking box to store all of our medications
3-Story emergency ladder
Two convertible car seats

We also renovated our “spare room” into a full fledged bedroom:

Bunk beds & bedding

Dresser & Lamp

9-Cubby “cubicle storage unit” with 4 baskets (the other 5 cubbies work as a bookcase)

Multi-colored plastic bin toy storage unit

“Twilight Turtle” constellation night light

Elegant Baby piggy bank


We're pretty sure that we've been a little over-zealous with the preparations, but our theory is that it's better to be over-prepared than under-prepared!

For the State we've set up the fingerprinting for the 30th (which is also Jen's 23rd birthday!). It's going to cost $50/person, which is totally exciting.

For the County we've set up the first part of the home study process, which is 3 interviews: one with both of us, and one for each privately with the social worker.