Great first day!!

Hello everyone, Hope you are doing well.Noah is doing great and so are we.

Yesterday after we got back to the hotel it was time to eat lunch and Noah was so happy to try new foods. He ate everything and has at every meal since. He feeds himself with a spoon and fork an trust me not very much gets droped. He loves oatmeal, (apple cinn), grits and fruit, and of cours all sweets. We have only been giving him nilla waffers for snack time.

We started getting baths around 6:00pm last night and he loves the tub!! He loves to play in water and most of all he loves being naked. He will run from me when we change his clothes because it's something new I guess.He went to sleep at 8:30 and woke up at 6:30am. He ended up sleeping on a baby matress beside our bed but, NOT IN THE BED WITH US. He woke up gright and early, ate breakfast and started iff his busy new day.

He has deffinatly tested us on most things, playing with tv, cords, remote, stove door and so on.He knows right from wrong and will look at you with those develish eyes and smile while he is touching something bad but he is learning and so are we how to manage.

We talked with my parents om the phone today, Noah loves to talk on the phone now and any other time he is awake. He is so funny, his personality is awesome and sence of humor is great.He keeps us laughing.

First day as Family of 3!!

Today was court, it couldn't have gone any better. It only took about an hour and can you believe I done all of the talking ang just about all of the questions were addressed to me.Yeah, I loooove to talk.
We went and picked up Noah as son as court was over.It was time for him to eat lunch but they wouldn't let him eat because of getting car sick, so he was starving ehen we got to the hotel. He ate and then we started to long process of nap time. He was so tired but could't fall asleep so finally I layed down and layed him on my chest and he was out like a light. That was only after trying numerous things. He is in to everything but is such a big helper because he knows where everything is and belongs. We are about to go eat supper so I'll talk with all of you later or in the morning.
Thanks so much for all of the comments, we cherish your thoughts.

oh yeah- He is calling us mamma and daddy now for everything and he is already starting to understand what we are saying to him.
I want to send pics so bad but we can't until the 10 days are over.please be patient.

Noah is such a big boy now.

We just got back from seeing Noah. It was amazung to see how much he has grown in 5 months. He still looks the same in the face but his hair is a little darker and longer.He still looks like Josh though. They brought him in the same small room that we were in the last time we were here and when he walked in I grabbed in and he just held around my neck so tight that all I could do was tell him that mamma was back and never leaving him again. When I held him it was so perfect, it was exacltly what I imagined it would be and more.God definatly knew what he was doing when he led us to Noah!!!!
It was snowing while we were visiting him and we were letting him look outside of the window, they asked him if he wanted to go outside and he said NO. I figured he knew how cold it was. We were able to try severl outfits on him to make sure everything would fit . His snow shoes and boots fit like a glove. All of the clothes that we tried on him fit, so we were very happy that we don't have to go bey anymore clothes for him. He saw the snow boots in my bag and started taking his shoes off by himself and sat in my lap to get his new shoes on, he is sooo funny. He also can undress himsself and almost redress with a little help from mamma. He called us mamma and daddy the whole time this time so I guess they have been working with him. They also told us that he has been going to speach class and is doing very good. He is still a neat freak but i imagine that will change soon.
Our court time is at 9:30 am on Friday and we will leave there after an hour or so and go pick up Noah for good.Yeah!!! We are going to have to stop on the way to get him to pick up some diapers and some of his favorite foods although he's not very picky, they said that's called orphanage syndrome-they will eat whatever they are given. The social worker at the orphanage said that he is potty trained as long as you take him to the potty 5 times a day and let him sit there, he will not tell you when he needs to go and that's why they left him in diapers. I will be buying him pullups and working with him even more.
As far as the cis paper is concerned , It did come in the mail the day after we left for our trip and my best friend got it out of the mail and overnighted it to our agency.She will then send it to the Moscow Embasssy so it will be there and ready for us when we get back to Moscow.
We will blog shortly after we get Noah to the Hotel with us and let you all know that everything is ok.
Love you all , we'll talk later

Hello from Vladivostok!!

It's so great to hear from all of you reading the blog. Like I said I would be blogging often so here os the stuff that went on today-try not to fall asleep while readind this(lol).
We got to the airport in Moscow at 4:15pm our time , checked in and began what would turn out to be the longest wait in an airport know to man. Our flight was sheduled to begin boarding at 6:30pm for the 7:10pm flight. They told us at 8:00pm that our plane was delayed, (duh) and that we would begin to board at 8:40pm instead. At 9:00pm we actually started to board, to only find out an hour after us sitting on the runway that we were having technical difficulties and would have to DEBOARD the plane and wait for another one to come take it's place.We sat in the airport until 2:30 am before we reboarded a new plane. Yes it was a new plane not the old one "fixed". I know because that was my #1 priority to find out.
We finally arrived in Vlad 9 hours later, and add 7 more hours for the time differnce, so we got in Vlad on Wed 26, 6:00pm. If you were not able to keep up that means we had 6 hours of sleep sine we left our house in Tuscaloosa at 8:00am Sunday morning. We are very tired and hungry so I'm going to blog mor tommorrow after we get back from seeing Noah.
info: We were told by our children's hope rep that we have the best Judge in town!!!
Please let us know if you have any guestions and\or suggestions at aby time. We love you all and will blog photos soon.

Leaving for Vlad today.

Today we are leaving out at 7:00pm our time and it should take around 10 hours to get there. We are giong to do a little sight seeing today to kill some time before the flight.There is a huge farriswheel down the street from our hotel so, we are giong to see what that is about.By the way, there is snow on the ground. When our plane was coming down we saw that there was snow everywhere. Yeah for me because I wanted to see it so much.
We revisited the oh so famous McDonalds last night for supper, it was ok I guess.That is the only thing we have eaten except for 2 or 3 bites on the plane(gross). We are about to go eat breakfast in our hotel, at least we know we do like their eggs!!
The weather is pretty cold here. The temp at night is in the 20's and daytime 35-40;s I'll try to get a few pics of the snow or sight seeing today and show you.

We are in Moscow, Russia

We finally made it over around 2:30am your time it was already 10:30am here.We are staying in the same hotel as we did the last time, so we know where Mc Donalds is!!! We have lots to do so i'll blog again in the morning before we board our plane to Vlad.

2 DAYS 'TIL TAKE OFF

Today is Friday and everything is about ready to go. Our bags are packed, and papers are in order. We are finally ready to go.Josh has been in town running last minute errands today, he's off today for Good Friday so that's been extremely helpful.
I'm not sure why no one has left any comments on the blog, I hope it is working alright. Please feel free to leave comments because I remember last time we were in Russia it felt so good to hear from someone at home.
I will try to blog daily but if I do skip a day here or there I will catch you up.We will have to wait for the 10 day period to end before we can post any photos of Noah so please be patient with that.Please remember we want you to see and read everything that's happening while we are in Russia but we can't tell you everything until we are back in the U.S. We love all of you and we continue to need your prayers.Hope to hear from you all soon.