Erin--Love your names!!!
Grace is one of my absolute favorites it and sounds lovely with Caroline. My niece is Lily Caroline, I just love that name as well! The reason I couldn't pick Grace is twofold--my cousin beat me to it and also, since we live in Mexico, we would need to call her "Gracia" in Spanish and it doesn't sound good to my ear and DH doesn't like it. Sigh... John Parker is also a nice name, very simple and classic...
The lucky thing for you is that since you know you're adopting a newborn, you can start stocking up on newborn stuff! That's so cool... For us it doesn't make sense to buy anything for DS or DD because we have no idea at all about the age!
However, today we picked out the fabric for the curtains... a cloud design! Next week we're going to have a professional artist friend come over and think of ideas for having him paint the walls of kiddo's room. We need to go with primary colors for boy or girl. I'll definitely post pics once it is finished!!! We're also moving our study to another space and making room for a playroom...
After all these years of infertility, I´m on Cloud 9! (Hence, the cloud curtains!) We even went to the fertility specialist today to follow up because I had my second m/c last month and he was really surprised that we were in such good spirits. We explained that the adoption was confirmed just two days after my D & C, and that it is a fact that we are going to be parents very soon. So even though I´m turning 40 next month and just had a m/c, I feel happier than than ever because mommyhood is just around the corner! I know it's very strange for most people, but we believe now that our adopted child is just waiting now to come into our lives and we feel incredibly blessed that he or she is on his/her way!!!!