It's Amore!

Yesterday started very well. We'd all had a good night sleep and went down for a 10am nap no problem. Alina eats and sleeps well most of the time. But we went to the U.S. embassy at 2pm to get her visa (yeah...we got it), then had to go to our agency office to complete some paperwork. By the time we got home, it was 5pm and someone had missed her afternoon nap. We put her down about 6:30 and made the mistake of waking her up from that. When we put her down again at 8:30 she was up every 30 minutes all night long. It was rough. About 4am she finally passed out from exhaustion and slept through until 7:30.

We all got up and ate breakfast. We had to go to the Ministry of Education at 11am. We spent from 7:30-10:30 trying to keep a tired baby up. We succeeded, did our final exit signature with the promise to do our followup placements. Picked up McDonald's and came home about 12:30. Alina went down for a nap quickly after having a bottle. She's been sleeping for about 2.5 hours. I hope this puts her in a better mood tonight.

She's so funny when she's sleeping. She's scoots up into a turtle position and sticks her tush in the air. It's looks so uncomfortable but she always moves back into that position.

Andy says he has "nothing to say at this present time".

We probably won't blog again after today because we leave for the airport at 10am tommorrow morning. Packing is on the agenda for this afternoon. Another lady who adopted with our same agency is in Moscow today so we may visit with her and her new daughter. I think Alina would like to play with another little one about her age.

Also, those of you whom we've been doing Skype with...our skype is disabled so we won't be able to call you today with it. So don't worry if we miss you.

Much love to all.