Another day with a special wonder

Well, today has been a busy day. Landon slept well through the night which surprised us a little. We fed him breakfast and he ran around the room some. He was doing good around lunchtime so we took him outside. It was a little windy but he was bundled up and we didn't walk far (went to Mick's). They have food that we can feed him if he wanted some (which he did). He did well in the stroller and the heavy jacket we had to get him. People dress their kids much warmer over here than you would think they needed to be.

Heather sat with him while I went through the line and he did very well there. He was in a good mood and ate some food. He was flirting with one of the employees as she was standing in our area. We went back to the room and he wandered around in the room some more. His personality is really coming out. He is smiling a whole bunch, is ticklish and loves it. He likes to play peek-a-boo, likes to stand on the big windowsill with help and look outside. He really only gets upset when he is hungry or tired. He has filled a diaper a few times and didn't say anything about it, so no crying yet for that.

He is just very hungry. We have been feeding him jar baby food to start, just to get us all into a routine first, and he goes through it quickly. A small jar of chicken, larger jar of banana, large jar of another fruit, most of a mashed banana. He still wants more. Some of this may be from him just being hungry, some may be from the orphanage where he doesn't know he will get food on a regular basis. It is one of those things we were told about, sort of hoarding food. Depending on age they either eat lots of food or take it and hide it for later. He will begin to understand that he won't have food taken away and can get a meal later on.

Heather has (no surprise) been great with him. I'm doing ok too. I put him to bed for his nap this morning and stayed with him until he fell asleep. he was trying to fight but it wasn't that bad.

He is just a joy to be with. He is smiling, curious about everything, we just keep noticing things about him. He has been doing really well with the transition. We both are happy that things worked out the way they did and we stayed here for the 10 days. It allowed us to spend that much more time with him that really helped. We were also able to see more of the city which was nice. I also can't imagine if we went home for the 10 days and we spent all that time flying back over here, to arrive at 6 am in Kras and then 4:30 that afternoon he comes to us. That would have been very tiring and not as good for him.

We will be heading off to go get some dinner shortly. Get Heather outside and have some better food. He did well before so maybe he will do well again. If not, I'll go get something and we can eat at 'home'. In a few days we will be heading to Moscow and then 1 week from now we will be on an 11 hour flight back to Atlanta (fun, fun, fun).