We're in Moscow

Tomorrow is Elijah's medical and Wednesday we go to the American Embassy.
And on Thursday, we come HOME!!!!!!

Thank you for all of your comments! I really love reading them while we are so far away from home. You Moms that traveled alone or stayed back to bring home your child understand how hard it is to be away from everyone!! So thank you again!:)

Thank you for all of your prayers too!

Changing channels

Yep! That's the TV remote. I had the TV on CNN World News and Elijah decided it was time for music videos. Before I changed it for him, I had to take a picture. He has it pointed to the TV that is mounted on the wall. We have been watching music videos. Elijah LOVES music and I found a station that plays English speaking videos with a Russian caption. They even have a BabyTime in the morning where they show baby music videos with characters and such. He loves it!

We are leaving for Moscow in a couple of hours.

More on Elijah

Elijah was signing "more" everytime he wanted to eat, so I showed him the sign for "eat". It's so cute when he does it. He mimicks everything I do. He loves music and he was waving his hands in the air for music. It looked like he was signing "all done". I showed him the sign for "music" and he copied me. Now that one he does not do without modeling but the fact that he did it makes me happy. He loves to dance to the music and he has got some moves! If he is sitting down, he wiggles around and moves his arms around. Today while he was standing and holding onto my hands, he was picking each foot up and down to dance to the music. Too cute! Speaking of standing, we were in the lobby today and he repeatedly kept standing up in the middle of the floor. I think he may take a step soon.:) Elijah also loves to be picked up and raised his hands in the air to be picked up today. Good thing, because I love to hold him!
On a different note, we got Elijah's passport yesterday. Yay!

Happy Boy

Gotcha Day!

Today was Elijah's Gotcha Day! I have dreamed of this day for so long. Elijah was all smiles and so was I. The orphanage dr. gave me Elijah's baptismal certificate, schedule and health records. One of his caregivers brought him in and asked if she could change him into his new clothes. She walked with us out the door. I know she is going to miss him. They take very good care of the children and love them very much. While they are happy when a child is adopted, it is sad to say goodbye. I told them we would be sending pictures and updates often.


My Cookie Monster at the hotel.:)

Here's our Elijah :)

More cookies please

I took Elijah some cookies on the first day that I saw him again. When he wanted more, I showed him the sign for more and then held his little hands and made the sign for "more". After a couple of times doing this with him, I asked him if he wanted more and he signed "more" perfectly! The next day when I came in, Elijah saw the diaper bag, and knowing that the cookies were in there, he signed "more" without any prompting or me saying anything! I was so excited! I have to do a Mommy brag....."He's a smarty pants!"


Elijah signing "more"


He's a Cookie Monster!