Home at last!
Andrew knows how to feed himself, sort ofWe left Almaty right on time Friday 9/14. We had two flights to get home, one seven hour and one ten hour, so we were in coach seats for seventeen hours with a three hour lay over in Amsterdam. Both flights were smooth and Andrew did well. He did great on the first seven hour flight and showed no signs of being scared. The second flight he got a little grumpy about two hours before we landed and I had to get him up and walk him around a while. He cried for about ten minutes during the landing process but otherwise he made it great.
Immigration was a breeze and we came through after about a five minute wait on the officer to do his paper work. There were about a dozen friends and family waiting in the lobby of the airport with balloons and greetings. Wow, it was so good to see their faces and their excitement. Andrew was not sure how to take all of this excitement so he was pretty timid. Stacye and I were so tired we may not have appeared to be excited but we were sincerely appreciative and soaked up the well wishes and the kind extra effort everyone made. We visited for a while and then retrieved our luggage and made our way out of the airport to go home.
We walked in the house about 8:00pm and started showing Andrew his new home. He took right to his big sister Lainey showing him his room and his new toys. If he was intimidated you couldn’t tell, as he made his way through the entire house. He is walking better now but he also still crawls if he wants to get somewhere fast.
He has had a little trouble sleeping (as have his mom and dad) with the time change. He slept through the night (ten hours) in the hotel room in Almaty each night so he should be on track to sleep through the night in the next couple of days.
Overall he is doing amazingly well. He gives big hugs and laughs quite a bit when he is not eating. And he is spending a good portion of his time eating. He has not turned his nose up at anything we have offered, from jar food to table food, he has eaten it all. We have his first pediatrician appointment Friday and we are interested to know how much weight he has gained.
We are so glad to have him home and all of the stress we went through to get him here is becoming a more distant memory.
Immigration was a breeze and we came through after about a five minute wait on the officer to do his paper work. There were about a dozen friends and family waiting in the lobby of the airport with balloons and greetings. Wow, it was so good to see their faces and their excitement. Andrew was not sure how to take all of this excitement so he was pretty timid. Stacye and I were so tired we may not have appeared to be excited but we were sincerely appreciative and soaked up the well wishes and the kind extra effort everyone made. We visited for a while and then retrieved our luggage and made our way out of the airport to go home.
We walked in the house about 8:00pm and started showing Andrew his new home. He took right to his big sister Lainey showing him his room and his new toys. If he was intimidated you couldn’t tell, as he made his way through the entire house. He is walking better now but he also still crawls if he wants to get somewhere fast.
He has had a little trouble sleeping (as have his mom and dad) with the time change. He slept through the night (ten hours) in the hotel room in Almaty each night so he should be on track to sleep through the night in the next couple of days.
Overall he is doing amazingly well. He gives big hugs and laughs quite a bit when he is not eating. And he is spending a good portion of his time eating. He has not turned his nose up at anything we have offered, from jar food to table food, he has eaten it all. We have his first pediatrician appointment Friday and we are interested to know how much weight he has gained.
We are so glad to have him home and all of the stress we went through to get him here is becoming a more distant memory.
posted by mom pup, pepper. @ 7:31 PM
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2 Comments:
Yeah! Glad you had a good trip with no delays. Hope we get to meet him! Some of us are planning a Kazapalooza get together this spring in Chicago. You guys should come!!
www.kazapalooza.blogspot.com/
I love your line: "the stress we went through to get him here is becoming a more distant memory." Sounds like what a lot of moms say after childbirth. I can't wait to have that feeling. :-)
Karen
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