Hello From Hanoi

I'm going to keep this short because I'm supposed to be putting clothes away while Charlie and Drew are downstairs in the playroom. But, no....had to blog for just a second.

We're doing great. No more falls for me....hope I didn't just jinx myself. The flight to Hanoi was pretty uneventful. Drew slept the first 45 minutes and then cried for about 20 minutes. But, keep in mind...it was nap time and he was hungry. Of course, I think he's always hungry.

We were sad to leave Ho Chi Minh. It was more difficult that I thought it would be to say goodbye to Phoung. She traveled with us to Ninh Thuan, so we spent much more time with her than the other Dillon staff. One of our favorite road trip memories came on the way to Ninh Thuan. We stopped to eat...and Charlie was trying to eat rice with his chop sticks. Phoung touched my hand and said "tell your husband use his spoon". She even had a friend in Ninh Thuan send us a copy of the newspaper dated July 31st...our GNR date. All of the Dillon staff are great. Minh is fabulous. Walked us through all of the paperwork and got us where we needed to go. Thomas is a hoot....he's so much fun.

Loc met us at the airport in Hanoi. Nice, nice young man. He was very helpful. We love the Somerset Grand Hotel...apartment. It's FABULOUS. I'm doing laundry as I'm blogging. Last night after we checked in the housekeeping supervisor came up to give us a tour of the room and show us how to use the stuff in the room. I thought he brought us something to drink. Charlie gave me some water and I said "isn't there Coke?"...Charlie in his very exasperated voice said "here you go ala-ka-freakin'-zam....it's Coke".

We've gone to the grocery store today and we're just hanging out with our sweet kiddo. Have I mentioned just how cute he is? Well....he is. Our house is so NOT ready for him. Ian was never a child that opened cabinet doors or anything else. Not Drew. He opens them, gets in them, closes them. Anything he can think of...he tries it. The boy loves to eat. He's opening up more and more. He giggles quite a bit and smiles A LOT. But...he also has his moments of frustration....I'm hearing one now in the kitchen. He just closed the door on his finger.

htmgbfvbv (That's from Drew).

Our Visa interview is on Thursday at 1:30pm. His Visa should be ready the same day. But, we're not sure we'll be able to come home earlier. All seats are full on Friday. So, we'll probably keep our stame return schedule.

Couple of things....Susie, Amy, Heather, Shelley and Lori....we delivered the pictures of your kiddos to the nannies. They loved seeing them. They were very excited to see Sadie smile Lori.

I'm missing Ian a lot today. Talked to him earlier. He didn't say much to me, but Marcia said he was just smiling from ear to ear. Can't wait to see him.

Said I was going to keep this short didn't I? Oh well. We're going to venture out tomorrow and go to the Water Puppet show and I'm going to try to find the quilt shop. We'll have Friday free as well and up until about 4pm on Saturday.

I'm laughing at Charlie and Drew again. Drew and Daddy are going to have their fair share of head strong moments.

Love to all of you!!! Can't wait for you to meet our newest blessing.