Our First Day to See Payson

Good Evening from Armenia! It is a little after midnight here on Monday night or I guess Tuesday morning really. Today was the first day that we got to see Payson. You will see come of her pictures in the post today :) We went to the orphanage today about 10am and spent a couple of hours with her. She is doing great. The surgery that was performed on her lip is looking good. There will need to be additional surgeries on her lip and then of course on her palate, but there is a defenite improvement. She responded well to all of us once again. She LOVED Will just as last time :) She will definitely be a daddy's girl. It is so cute watching her with him. She would just laugh and laugh at him. Will seems to have that gift with people :) She cuddled with me and watched Special Agent Oso on the iTouch with Caleb. I think that this was her first experience with cartoons. She was able to roll over from her back and stomach with no problem. She was very active with her legs and she seems to be close to sitting up on her own. You can tell that she spends a lot of time laying on her back staring at the ceiling because even when you hold her she immediately starts looking up at the ceiling. Once she starts getting some time to practice sitting, I think she will do it in not time.

After the morning at the orphanage we went and got some pizza then went back to the room for a long nap. Our translator came back and got us about 8:30pm to go out on the town to some local parks. Things in Armenia do not get going until 8pm. The weather changes to feel like fall at night so everyone comes out late at night. We took Caleb to two local parks where he drove bumper cars and rode on a merry-go-round. He had a ball! We got back to the room around 11pm, but the rest of the city was still going strong including the young children :)

Finding food that Caleb likes this time around has been a challenge. We finally found some hotdogs at the local market and Will figured out how to cook them in the sink so he is chowing down on hotdogs as we speak while watching Tigger and Pooh. Will figured out how to bring our old Apple TV and connected to our TV in the room so that we could have some English speaking cartoons for Caleb. It has been a HUGE lifesaver all ready.

Tomorrow is our court hearing!!!!! We are going to go the orphange tomorrow morning at 10am to visit Payson some more. Then we are meeting our attorney Ed at noon to prepare for our hearing. Our court hearing is at 3pm tomorrow in Gyumuri that is 5am Tuesday morning in Alabama. Please pray for a smooth court hearing tomorrow and that the judge issues his decree quickly. Our attorney said that it could be as late as Friday before receiving his decree. We cannot bring her with us until he issues that decree. Much love to everyone and we miss all of you. The Armenian people are wonderful, but we are all ready home sick :)

Jenn