Home Sweet Home!

We arrived home the afternoon of July 3 to a great cheering crew at the OKC airport! Thanks to family, Clines, and Archers for a fun welcome! David did well....not so great on the flight from Hanoi to Tokyo, but then made up for it by being an absolute angel on the long leg from Tokyo to DFW. We were so, so glad to see friends and family and most of all, Will! :)

Sorry to be slow-on-the-post, so to speak, but the past few days have been a whirlwind of activities and emotions. We've had so much help from both sets of grandparents (Thanks, Everyone!) which we needed so much. I'll be honest, the jetlag is tough, and jetlag with a baby who wakes every two hours all night to eat is a bit of a challenge! We're definitely not feeling as young as when we stayed up all night in college, that's for sure. But, then, college was well, a LOT of years ago! :) I know this may rattle the adoption bonding cages a bit, but we recommend that those of you with babies soon to come home line up a little extra help the first couple of weeks that you are home. Sometimes it's just nice to have a home-cooked meal and clean laundry magically appear! Thanks again, Grandma and Gram!

David's been a charmer through all of the changes this past week. He's been to multiple doctors about his scabies. Please feel free to e-mail me privately if you have scabies in your world as well - we are learning how to deal with it, and thanks to a series of medications, he is much improved now. Overall, though, despite his skin woes, he is a surprisingly feisty little man - gaining nearly a pound in weight in three weeks (I guess those round-the-clock feedings are paying off!), crawling across the living room, playing toys with his new big brother. We still feel as though we need to pinch ourselves occasionally to prove that this is not just a dream and he is really ours! "Thanks be to God for His indescribable gifts!"

We have plenty of shameless pride photos of our two boys at home, but we haven't spent the time necessary fiddling with cameras and computers to get them in the blog. Check back soon, but don't hold your breath if it's a few days before you see them - we're just too busy loving our kids right now! :)