It's not hard for me to admit that the coma has lasted a little longer than anticipated. First of all it seemed like it took us forever to get over the jet lag. Today while Luke was in play group (before swim class) I was watching from the bleachers and could only think about how AT THAT MOMENT the most wonderful thing would be having a nap. I never think about naps. I never take them and I never 'crave' them. This was a severe craving -- kind of like the Diet Coke and good Vino cravings from China that seemed to be so abundant. My earlier feelings were confirmed when after dinner we 'jammied the kids' and took them to the grocery store in their Jammie's hoping they would fall asleep on the way home. How sad is that? They did fall asleep but then I couldn't get either of them into their beds without them waking up so I tossed them into our bed and have successfully gotten one out so far. Snickerdoodle LUKE does NOT like to let me win at this game if he can help it. We don't have a problem with children and grocery stores and Jammie's...it's just not something that we prefer to do or would normally do it for that matter. However, desperate times mean desperate measures I guess. We are totally exhausted. It will be three weeks 'home' on Monday and you would think that we would be OK by now. Guess we are so old that our bodies just don't want to recover. So where is this "YOUR CHILDREN KEEP YOU YOUNG" type deal going to come visit? It is welcome at any time. The door is not locked. (it is but that's another story).
Below are some RANDOM (and boy do I mean random) photos. There is a story behind them all I am sure. We may not know the story or we are just too exhausted to tell it... so let your imagination run wild.
We sent the orphanage an old digital camera to take photos of Maran in action. When we got her they gave it back to us. We went to the store to get another flash card for it and we gave it back to them on the day of our orphanage visit. It is quite interesting what shots we found. Above you can see her eating her meal on a chair.
This is the crew eating their meal from the floor. Maran is the one with her head just about diving into the bowl. Alice is straight across from her. The older girl to the left is a 13 year old orphan whose mother will not give up her rights to her. (Same holds true for the lil' boy who stole my heart and still has not given it back).
The four musketeers and their caretaker.
Here they are again. This had to of been taken some time between late June and August. Alice (far end) has on the outfit that Jennifer sent her in a care package and Maran (beside Alice) has on the dress and sandals we sent her for her birthday in late June.
We have many pictures of them lined up like this.
This picture is a real gem as we had never seen nor did we have a picture of her at such a young age. This is actually a picture of a picture that we are VERY happy to have.
Maran pronounces his name and I can't even begin to think of how to spell it but I just have such a crush on this lil' fella. Look at those eyes.
Our Arrival home. This is a VERY COMMON sight at our house. Heaven forbid one get more "DADDY TIME" than the other.
This is when we were still in China. Note the Jammie's and the sandals that she INSISTED on having on. IT was her security blanket.
First Night Home meant we were cuddly to an extreme.
We hugged and hugged and then hugged some more.
We played like we had known each other our entire lives.
We even tried to have a slumber party before Mommy and Daddy broke it up around 1:30 A.M.
And we hugged some more.
I got a SPECIAL treat with the stork.
The stork was in the yard when we got home and stayed there for the next 13 days. Apparently 'STORKVILLE' figured out they were missing a stork and came to get it.
Our photos with the stork leave a lot to be desired. Children did not want to cooperate and Daddy's tripod was almost as unwilling as Luke and Maran.
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