Saturday, April 28, 2007

4 More Sleeps Until Gotcha Day!!!

Hello everyone in Weblog world. I hope you all are doing as good as Andrew and I. We are getting more and more excited everyday now. We look forward to Thursday (as that is the Gotcha Day) and we can take our girl home with us. It is getting more and more difficult to leave her after our visits. She gets a worried look now when we are walking her back to the building in which she sleeps. Also, when we try and get her coat and hat on she struggles and cries...which does a lot of damage to Mommy's state of mind. I just keep counting down the visits until she is ours. Oh! Sorry about the lack of a post yesterday...we were shopping at the bazaar getting all the gifts for the folks back home and then in the afternoon we went out for supper again. So no worries from this part of the world...we are fine, Dinara is fine, everything is fine. We were just busy yesterday.

Our little girl is definitely a fan of music. She loves listening to it, dancing to it and sleeping to it. Doesn't matter if it is a fast or slow song, if it is loud or quiet she will listen to in contentedly. We have been playing the many volumes of Disney music we own at every visit. This way we have something that she has listened to while at the Baby House...it won't be such a harsh change when she gets to come home with us. Have I mentioned in the last few seconds how much we are looking forward to that? Thought so. Sorry. Getting back to talking about the little one...she just loves to play. She isn't as happy with the cuddles anymore and actually prefers to sleep in the stroller. She does like to be tickled and zerberts on her tummy, feet, and neck also go over well. Today I played "Kissy Face" with her (my parents will know what this is) and she laughed a lot. So another new game has won her over...not that it is hard. She is such a good natured child. We are really lucky that fate had her in mind for us. She is such a darling. I can't wait to introduce you all to her. Pictures on Thursday for sure. We are starting to pick them today...we have hundreds to pick from.

We don't think we will be going bowling after all...we would've like to go with our old translator. Our new translator is nice but just not as good with English as our last one. We are her first family that she has helped so we can cut her a little slack. We are hoping that our old translator is having her baby right now but we haven't heard any information on that front. So if any of you have time a good thought in her direction would be appreciated. We really couldn't have done any of this without our new friend (and old translator) Yulia. Well that's all for today. We need to get back to the hotel for lunch and try to figure out how we are getting to the Baby House this afternoon...our driver is hung over (he went to a b-day party yesterday) and wants to sleep today. As he really hasn't had a day off since we got here we are understanding. We'll tell you how are transportation issue goes tomorrow. Talk soon. Still missing you all.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

hey guys :) look she is growing up already. i too am very excited about gotcha day. also very excited about the coming home part. miss you guys, and can't wait to meet the wee girl.
love and kisses
:)

Anonymous said...

So close to gotcha day! I'm looking forward to the pictures of your new daughter, and wish you all the best. Come home soon :)

Anonymous said...

So very pleased to hear all is going sooo well. The powers that be/Him are with you. I think you're going to have a great time with Dinara on the plane coming home. We are also counting down the days. That's the days until we actually see you in person, that is. Give each other a zerbert for us and remember we love and miss you a whole bunch. Check your e-mail, Dad & Mom.

Anonymous said...

Wow! Your countdown is getting much lower. Well done Andrew and Nadine. So where do you go from here in terms of timing?
Miss you, can't wait to meet the new member of our extended family. Chiara is looking forward to helping you with the baby.
Bye for now, take care, lots of hugs.

JOY said...

Hey Guys!

It is all too exciting and the pics will be appreciated.
We want to see Dinara ourselves!

Sounds like you are busy.
The weather has finally turned nice in Ontario so we are outside working like crazy.
All the best to the three of you!
Love from the Tillbillies

Bridget Hughes said...

That's way too funny ... get her used to the Disney music to keep it from being a shock when she's with you full time.
*It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all ...*

If it makes you feel better, I'm also counting the sleeps till I can log on and see your precious little one for the first time!