The boys are finally ours!
What an incredible day it has been! We are finally updating the blog as our two boys sleep soundly in the next room after six straight hours of play. Our hearts have absolutely been stolen by these two little ones. Our camera has chosen a very bad time to become finicky, so you’ll have to wait a bit for better pictures.
The process of getting the boys took much of the morning and mid afternoon. We went to sign papers and pick up birth certificates first. Different offices for each boy, and of course, on opposite sides of town. A little after noon, we went to Conner’s orphanage and picked him up. He was enthralled by the view out the car window, and was an angel the whole way to the second orphanage. His first English words were car, truck, and bus…
Picking Carson up was a bit of a chore because a document was missing. Not one of ours, but one of the orphanage’s. That did not pose a problem, just caused a delay. They took the clothes we brought and put them on him, just as they had done for Conner. The little guys each came out in their American duds, and we melted! Whisked both boys off to get their passport pictures which went…ok. Then brought them back to the hotel.
For all our worrying about how they would behave at the hotel, they were great, great, great!! Conner had two melt-downs early on, but was actually the better behaved of the two the rest of the day. Carson was devilishly cute, and flashed his big smile every time we tried to tell him NO. But overall, they behaved beautifully.
We took them outside halfway through the day, and they enjoyed the fountains, the pigeons, and all the activity in the park. We brought them back to the room for dinner, put them in their strollers, and they ate like refined little gentlemen! We, however, did not eat anything between breakfast and a midnight snack…
Putting them to bed turned out to be the icing on the cake. Really! At about 9 p.m., both boys started slowing down. We each took one, sat on a little bench in our bedroom and rocked them both to sleep in our arms. Oh, my gosh it was wonderful. We set them both in their cribs and they’ve been out ever since. We have a little more child-proofing of the room to do before bed, but we are ready to be there when they wake up in the morning…which should be about 7ish…whew!
We’ll post some more pictures asap, and some more details of our first experience as parents. Words really can’t express how amazing today has been.
Picking Carson up was a bit of a chore because a document was missing. Not one of ours, but one of the orphanage’s. That did not pose a problem, just caused a delay. They took the clothes we brought and put them on him, just as they had done for Conner. The little guys each came out in their American duds, and we melted! Whisked both boys off to get their passport pictures which went…ok. Then brought them back to the hotel.
For all our worrying about how they would behave at the hotel, they were great, great, great!! Conner had two melt-downs early on, but was actually the better behaved of the two the rest of the day. Carson was devilishly cute, and flashed his big smile every time we tried to tell him NO. But overall, they behaved beautifully.
We took them outside halfway through the day, and they enjoyed the fountains, the pigeons, and all the activity in the park. We brought them back to the room for dinner, put them in their strollers, and they ate like refined little gentlemen! We, however, did not eat anything between breakfast and a midnight snack…
Putting them to bed turned out to be the icing on the cake. Really! At about 9 p.m., both boys started slowing down. We each took one, sat on a little bench in our bedroom and rocked them both to sleep in our arms. Oh, my gosh it was wonderful. We set them both in their cribs and they’ve been out ever since. We have a little more child-proofing of the room to do before bed, but we are ready to be there when they wake up in the morning…which should be about 7ish…whew!
We’ll post some more pictures asap, and some more details of our first experience as parents. Words really can’t express how amazing today has been.
posted by Rochelle and Curtis @ 8:13 AM
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Congratulations!!! I'm loving reading your story!! (Catherine gave me your site awhile back.) Remembering putting our son to bed in the crib in the Hotel Kras brought tears to my eyes! (Actually, the going to bed part was terrible & took 3 hours of him crying! But after he was asleep, we just gazed at him in his crib & cried happy & exhausted tears! ;) )
We LOVED talking to you guys this morning (your first evening with the boys). We're so glad to hear they went to sleep easy and hopefully slept through the night ok.
This evening Chris was standing beside me as I was looking at the latest post. He wanted on my lap. I pulled up the picture of the four of you and explained what was going on and he kept pointing to Carson and saying "more". So I scrolled down to other pictures and clicked on them. Each time I tried to read the blog Chris kept saying "more Car" and would point to the pictures. After we went through all your pictures I pulled up ours that have Carson in them along with the other orphanage pictures we have and Chris kept pointing to them and saying... "all gone"... I said yes all gone - you're home now and Carson and Conner will be too very soon. He remembers Carson - I have no doubt about it.
One week and you will be home with both of them!!
Catherine & Tony
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