Where's my pot of gold?

Another full day of joy with Landon. We were able to go out to lunch again today and he did fine. The 'real' food fills him up faster and allows us all to get outside. He was getting a little cranky at the end, but nothing bad. He woke up early from his afternoon nap and couldn't get back to sleep. We felt bad as he was rubbing his eyes and trying to get to sleep but couldn't. Dinner didn't go as well, but still went better than expected. We got out of the room a little later than planned, so by the time we got to the place (the coffee place as they had porridge) he was hungry and a little cranky until the food. Heather did a great job walking him around and distracting him until the food came, but we got our remaining quesadillas to go as he was getting a little tired.

We gave him his first bath tonight! We didn't know how he would act as we have heard various stories about babies having cold baths in orphanages, etc. Our shower has one of those removable  shower heads so we were able to use that to hose him down. He did great and started to enjoy it even. He is just doing so well with everything, again much better than expectations. I think that with what we were planned for asa  post-orphanage situation along with being new to us allowed us to expect for something 'worse'. I still think that the extra time we got with him was good for all of us. I wish that more people were able to (and willing to) spend the extra time during the 10 days. 

We've been here so long and with the time difference it is messing us up. Earlier I was telling Heather how I couldn't believe we were already 5 days past our court date. She gave me this funny look, so I was like 'well, Tuesday to Sunday is 5 days'. She then started laughing as she reminded me of the 10 day waiting period. Oops! The time has seemed to go fast, it doesn't seem like almost 2 weeks since we got him. With only 2 full days left in Kras and less than a week overall, it's almost all gone. We still haven't gotten used to this being our son instead of someone that we are babysitting. Now we are the ones that will need to get a baby sitter from time to time. 

We look forward to getting home and enjoying our time with Landon , family and friends. It has been fun with him here but we look forward to introducing him to the people and places of home. The weather will be much nicer so we can take him outside and down into Ashland to walk around. The weather has still been a little cold here so we have only been able to go out in short trips to get food. the weather in Moscow will be better. We are supposed to do some sight-seeing with the agency staff there which will be nice. 

We will also continue the blog with stories and pictures of how life goes at home. Maybe not daily posts but still lots of stuff. You've been with us on this journey for so long that we hope you stay with us. Thanks for being there.