We are Home AT LAST!

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Yes, we are HOME AT LAST! We are so thankful to be home with our family and to be in our own beds at last. The flights were uneventful exept for the 2 hour delay and that we had to reroute our flights from London coming home because we would have missed the connection flight. Andrew held up well in the plane and slept for half of the time. We were happy to see Robert's parents meet us at JFK airport (not only because we were home at last but because we were supposed to fly into Newark airport). When we saw Robert's Mom and Dad in the airport, as we were walking towards them with Andrew I started to cry from relief that we were finally home. We missed everybody so much and are so happy to be home with Andrew at last. When Robert, Andrew and I finally pulled up to our house at 2:00am and opened the door, my mom and sister were in the living room asleep on the couch and chair trying to wait up for us. When we walked in they were still asleep so I went over to my mom and gently placed her first grandchild into her arms to wake her up. I wanted Andrew to be the first face she saw. She was a little startled but was overjoyed to hold him and for us to be home. We stayed up talking until 4:00am and we showed Andrew around the house. We showed him his room and let him roam around for a while as Robert and I were catching up with my mom. By the time we put Andrew down for bed in his crib (which he seemed happy to be back in a crib, instead of a sagging mattress bed) he happily played for a bit and cried for a minute and went to sleep. Praise God for that cause Mama needed her sleep (didn't get much sleep on either plane cause I was more interested in making Andrew comfortable,since he was sleeping in my arms, so he could rest and let everyone else on the plane rest).



We had a revolving door yesterday with our family members coming to visit and meet there new relative they have read so much about. My mom and sister was there since they stayed over night, Robert's Grandmother who is turning 90 years old in October, which is Andrew's Great Grandmom, Robert's parents and sisters, our neices and nephew and my cousin Karen and Aunt Rita stopped by. Grandma was so happy that we were home and said that she has kept up with our blog and has not missed a day to hear about her new great grandson, Andrew. Andrew is a little shy at first around new faces but he is warming up to them fairly quickly. It was so good to see our family members yesterday and we are glad that Andrew is adjusting so well to his new family and home. When our nephew Billy and our neices arrived we were all playing on the floor with Andrew. I asked Billy if he was glad (which I know he was) that we brought home a little boy. Well to my surprise Billy engulfed me with a big hug for bringing home a little boy cousin for him to play with. He is the only boy in the family until now so Billy is extra excited to meet Andrew and from what I heard from my sister-in-law, Karen (his mother) that Billy doesn't stop talking about Andrew.



It was so wonderful to have everyone over to meet Andrew yesterday and I could tell that everyone was excited to see us and Andrew home. Everyone says what a precious little boy we have and I Praise God for guiding us through this journey safely and for our precious Prince Andrew. We appreciate all of everyone's prayers and support throughout this time away from home while being with Andrew in Ukraine. We had the favor of God upon us and He was the one who led us to our son Andrew. Your prayers have availed much in our lives and we thank you for them. If I could ask for you all to continue to pray and believe with us that Andrew continues to attach with us and bond with us and our family and continues to adjust well in his new home and surroundings, we would certainly appreciate it.



I am planning to keep up with this blog to give everyone updates on how Andrew's is adjusting in his new home for our family, the adoption community that has been following it as well and for Andrew's memory life book for when he gets older.