NOT ONE DAY AND COUNTING

As some of you may already know we will not be coming home tomorrow. We have had some issues with getting Jacob’s passport. It seems Ukraine has chosen now to change their passports and we have to have an international passport, which is now red. Several regions are running out of blank red passports so we are waiting for some to arrive here in Simferopol. We had hoped they could arrive by train or plane today but this isn’t the case. Hopefully we will get it tomorrow but it will be late in the day, which means we plan to take a late flight to Kiev. We still plan to get the medical exam and visa completed on Wednesday and travel home on Thursday. Of course this too could change. I just got off the phone with Delta and we have the same flight schedule as before.

We are hoping the Passport Bureau will let Andrew pick up Jacob’s passport without James or I present when it is ready. We want to leave today for Kiev so we can have a change of scenery, eat better food, do some site seeing, and shopping. Andrew is going to ask when he goes back to the Bureau after lunch. No one would even answer any questions until after lunch. As I am typing this it is 4:00 AM at home and I’m sure no one will read it before we have an answer about leaving for Kiev today or I would ask you to pray, but please do pray we can come home on Thursday.

On to better news, Jacob is adjusting well. The first two nights he slept 11 hours, last night he slept 9 hours with a 2 hour nap yesterday late afternoon. I had to wake him up for fear he might not go to sleep that night. He still loves bath time, more so the water than the bath itself. I can’t wait to get home and him and Matthew can play in the “kick pool”. He has a pretty good appetite. He doesn’t seem real fond of the strawberry oatmeal but he had almost a whole banana for breakfast. He probably would have eaten more if we had something he liked. The caregivers said he likes yogurt drinks, but he didn’t like the one we got him. They also said he likes porridge “oatmeal” but he doesn’t now. He ate McDonald’s again yesterday for lunch and he had 6 McNuggets and a half pack of fries. At this rate he will be gaining weight pretty fast. He needs to. We figured out yesterday that some of the clothes we bought are too big. He is really between 12 and 18 month clothes. The 18 month clothes I bought him just hang on him or in one case the shorts fall off of him. He is so skinny.

Papaw – Jacob said his version of Papaw yesterday evening walking back from eating. He said it again today. He had said something that sounded like Nana about two weeks ago but we are still working on associating the word with the picture.

He rides in the taxi’s with no problems. He walks down the sidewalk next to a lot of traffic with no problems. He tried to follow Andrew when he got up at the café the other night. He still has a temper when he doesn’t get what he wants but things are getting better each day.

Thank you all for thoughts, comments, and prayers. I know your prayers have helped him to adjust to all the changes he is going thru and will be over the next few weeks.

I love and miss you all with all of our hearts.

God Bless You ,

JTJ