Home at last.....

First we want to just Praise God for his guidance and watch care over Gary, Morgan, Henry and Camille. Also for not allowing any "major" issues here at home while they were gone for the eleven days. God is good and greatly to be praised...

Then to re-cap a bit. My younger children got up at 6:30ish asking if it was time to go to the Airport? So we talked a bit about time. Then we went out for lunch, drove really slow the hour to Grandma's so they can all take a nap in the car. Took Grandma out for ice cream for her Birthday!!! Went past a friends house to pick up something (this next sentence is supposed to be then off to the airport) BUT NO, Gary calls and lets us know there is a two hour delay. At this point they have been traveling about 25 hours. So we hang out at my friends house, go across the street to the school play on the swings ect, a squirrel falls out of a tree in front of my teenage son who scoops it up and starts asking can I keep it pleeeeease...? So he did. Stopped by the store to get sandwich fixins.. to eat in the car on the way to the airport, now at this point my incredibly coordinated nicely dressed children.. intended to match the precious little outfits sent to Africa for their new siblings are not lookin so good. Oh well we head to the Airport. We get there when we are supposed to, but hey there is no one getting their luggage,,, so we think hmm not here yet and as I look to my right there they are "already" here with bags and waiting. Good grief... it was wonderful though there was my handsome husband was with his front pack on looking all dashing with his new little brown daughter. To the right was my beautiful second born with her front pack with her new little brown brother. Maggie realized it was her mogen.... and hollered as she ran to her. The children are beautiful... we chatted a bit hugged passed around the babies, called the Dr. to let her know we were on our way, clicked a quick picture of all the sibs and were off.
Now the goods on the kids.. I will start with Camille.. she is a beautiful, capable typical little girl. Today is her Birthday so she spent her first birthday traveling to the USA. She is not the 20 pounds that her med report said but a petite 16. She does have an ear infection and such water poo that I am sure the antibiotic she will take for her ear could not possibly make it any worse:)

Then little Henry... yes he is covered in Scabies. He does not crawl like the med report said, and he certainly only weighs 22 pounds with a wet diaper and several sleepers on.. tonight he weighed in at 14 pounds. His lower body looks like that of a newborn... his waist is sooo tiny.
However we fixed the no eating problem with a change of bottle/nipple. The big advice when going to Ethiopia is take the Playtex bottles with the disposable liners..great thinking then you don't have to worry about washing them so much. Well Henry obviously does not care for the Playtex nipple. Thus refusing to eat, even when starving. Oh those strong willed little people.
He ate 7 ounces at the Dr and another 7 three hours later at home. PTL Morgan was just beside herself with guilt. I should feel bad I am the mother and should have known to send more then one kind of bottle but really I assumed the orphanage used a mishmash of bottles you know whatever was donated so figured they would just eat. Well lesson learned. So Henry eats has no water poo and is as is the whole rest of the household fast asleep.
I had better hit it as well, tomorrow we all get to treat ourselves for scabies and wash ALL the bedding.. Count it all Joy right??? Oh and they both grind their teeth.. what's up with that?
We keep looking at Henry saying hey you are the little boy from the picture.. In my living room...
Anyone else know the feeling???
~~all is well tiffany~~