WE ARE HOME!!!!!!!!!

We praise God that after 30 hours of travel with an active, loud, and ultra digestive :) little boy we are home safely! We are weary but blessed!
There is no way I can write about this trip like I did the last one. Time is limited (at least right now). Maybe Brandon will have a father-son night and I can get caught up on blogging... or take a nap :)

Sleeping... not so much :)
We are attempting to get our sweet boy on American time. He takes a morning nap from 10:00-11:30 an afternoon nap from 2-4 then sleeps from 8:00 until about 1:00am. He wakes from 1-3:30 (WIDE AKAKE) and then sleeps from 3:30 until 5:45. We are so hoping that his late night "play sessions" will be for a short season of life. I love the morning nap by the way! He is so happy at night that it isn't too horrible to wake up, though not great long term of course... we are also jetlagged and weary, but filled with joy in it all!


LOVED LOVED LOVED Ethiopia Guest house!!!!!!! We were in an adoptive family suite and it is SO worth the cost... I would have paid double for that room! We were in the newest house (there are 4) and we were the only family there which meant they cooked all Shelly safe foods... AMAZING!!!!!!

Thoughts about our son at 17 months:

~He is crawling well and looks good doing it!
~He loves to hear his voice!
~He can walk holding on to our fingers
~He only likes formula and rice cereal, but with everything else in his life changing... we will stick with that for a few days!
~He his a great digestive track and is able to produce a 5 gallon pail of diapers in 36 hours!
~He will be wearing paper diapers for a while based on the above comment!
~He SINGS all the time! Hums all sorts of tunes!
~He loves playing with a tiny cup and a spoon... out of all the toys those are his favorite.
~Daddy is his hero and he looks for him when he isn't around.
~He screams whenever he is done eating, but is easily distracted by something else!
~He had no sticky diapers while on airplanes (thanks for the prayers)!!!!
~He now enjoys the camera, when he wants to :)
There is so much more to say, but nap time is limited. Once we get the photos off the camera I will post MANY on here... so stay tuned!