playdough is a life saver.

One of friends down the hall from us gave noah a few easter eggs filled with playdough. He has loved it. We had not been back to the store at that time, so that was great. He also was given crayons and a coloring book from another friend of ours. He loves the color brown, that's the only one he wants to use. He has calmed down alot since our "gottcha day"last friday.He knows who we are and that he is staying with us forever.
Just when he thinks we are settled in we are having to change rooms on saturday dur to the suite that we are in is already reserved along with the rest of the suites. We will be in the same hotel here in vlad until Thursday when we go back to Moscow.
I know there are no pics this time but I am in a hurry today. More pics tommorrow.
We love you and love reading your comments, its so great to here from you all everyday.
Josh, Leslie and Noah

Boy oh Boy, is Noah a Boy.

Outside the Vlad Inn
Crazy hair after bath time.

Noah loves bathtime.
Roll Tide
The Bunch that walks at 4:00 daily.
Snow is still on the beach Daddy and Noah

Hello all, Today was a pretty good day. It was rainy this morning but it cleared up later on in the day.We went for yet another stroll down to the beach.Oh and about thet beach, it's nothing like the beaches in the states unless you count that they both have water.The sand is brown abd black and itt is full of cig butts and whatever else people decide to leave around.It smells kinda bad so we don't stay long because Noah wants to play with shells and sand, but I'm sure it's full of only God knows what. All and all we had a nice day.

Noah is 2 year old boy and does not let you forget how rambunctious he can be. It's great being his mama but it is tiring here for all of us. We will soon be home and things will change as far as letting him run free and play with multiple toys in his room.

I am blogging some pics for you all, let me know what you think.

Love, Josh, Leslie and Noah.

PS. Noah is sitting in my lap helping me type so please overlook the mistakes, Thanks

Noah says hello or( daske bodonyia)-Dos-skei-bo-don-ya

Good Bye or (pacca-pacca

We are sending you all huge hugs and kisses.

Srolls to the beach.

We have been taking strolls down to the beach(5 minute walk ) and we have been walking to the store everyday with a group of about 4 other families.There is another childrens hope family here now on their first trip so we have a lot in common with them. They are actually here to meet their daughter,Nina -which was our 2nd referrall while we were on our first trip.There were some things going on with her when we were he last time and things did not work out for her to join our family. We have now understood why we met her and were not able to adopt her, it was so that family could.We were the first family from the states to meet Nina so we were able to offer a lot of info for them and they have already accepted her and will be comming back soon to adopt her.How amazing how God work, we didn't understand them but we now see the whole picture of how God has brought 2 families together from across the worl to meet in Vlad.

We did remember to bring a stroller with us from home, so he has liked going on walks everyday. He is one of 2 boys here and there are 3 girls. He is such the ladies man. He flirts with all little girls with those develish eyes.
We do have a stove in our hotel room so we have been able to cook a little. We are eating lots of mac and cheese, fet alfrado and rice. Noah is eating baby rice bananas, oatmeal, grits and yogurt.

I wish we could find some crayons for Noah but have not yet, we are going back to store tommorrow, so we will look them.
i'm glad you all are having pretty nice weather at home , allexcept for the thunderstorm lastnight.We are about to go eat supper and get baths , so we will chat later.
We love you, Josh, Leslie and Noah.

Cranky Day for All.

We are all so bored. We can't go anywhere and we are all getting cabin fever. Noah has been cranky today because there is nothing for him to do in the room. He tries to get to things he knows that he shouldn't touch. I know he is not a bad child he is feeling just like we are-ready to go to Moscow and then on Home.
He slept good again last night as did we all, he did have trouble going to sleep . I rock him when he has trouble getting to sleep because I think that's a good bonding time for the 2 of us. He is still eating almost everything that we give him. Today he tried a pickle and didn't like it very much. I guess there is finally something that he will not eat, wow.
I have been trying to upload aa video but it's become a huge challange so I'll keep working on that for you. We will talk to everyone later, I hope you all are doing good and thanks for reading our story. How is the weather at home? It's still pretty cold here, feels ok for mw but very cold for Noah. Josh and Noah are bonding very well, that's his playing buddy.They play hide and seek, cars and stacking cups together. By the way he loves the stacking cups, Thank you Melissa B. for that great tip.
shout ou time: Hello mamma, daddy, shane, amy, keelie, lindsie, heather, brad, sara, emma, grandma joan, granny, tot, kathy, kissy, collin, logan melissa, nikki, patrick, michelle r, brent, seth, calab, melissa b, illia, and thanks for all of your comments.
We love you all.

can u say roll tide?

We finally decided it was time to wear his bama jersey. It's a little to big but it's worth it to see him in it. He can't say roll tide yet but he is trying.

We had another great night and morning. We found out 1 food that he does not like, cheese popcorn, go figure the cheese king (Josh) does not like cheese or it could just be the popcorn, not sure yet.

I will try to send mor pics of all of us tommorrow, running out of time again, sorry.

Busy, Busy, Busy.

Today is Sunday, we walked outside and played in the small playground. He loves to swing and slide down a huge slide.We have had lots of fun today but we were glad for naptime to come. He only took a 2 hour nap today but thats still great.

While he was asleep I went back to the baby store. They let me exchange some of the clothes that I bought for him because of size issues. We had better luck with that today.

I also made a trip to the market and stocked up on a few of our favorite things.Things are so expensive here that it makes it very hard to get all that you need. Diapers, wipes -all very high here.

Here are a few more pics of Noah. This is how he sleeps most of the time and walking around the Vlad Inn.

info: He seems to be wearing a size 12-18 month old clothes for those of you who wanted to know about that. He also loves the bath still!!, because he likes to be naked.Hope you all enjoy the pics.We will talk with you all later because I can only blog for about 15 - 2

0 mins at a time because of cost.