Hey guys! Sorry it has been so long since I have updated but life is busy these days. We have been home with Hannah for one week now and everything is going great. She is a happy girl and has adjusted very well. She sleeps good, waking up only once a night for a bottle. She also eats very well, she loves everything that we give her. We had a shower/welcome home party Saturday. Hannah celebrated in true princess style! There was around 75-100 people there and Hannah was the center of attention, she loved every minute of it!

 

We went to the doctor and she now weighs 18 lbs 9 ounces and is 28 1/2 inches long. The doctor said that she looks great and that she is completely healthy. She got two shots :-( We are working on crawling and feeding herself per doctors orders! She catches on to everything so quickly I don't think this will be a problem!  I will try to update again soon.

 

Miranda

Hey guys! Today is our third day home with Hannah. It has been such a joy and a blessing to be able to watch her progress during the time that we have had her. It is amazing just what a few days will do. Hannah is doing much better now that she is home and is beginning to get a routine down. No more 5:00 cranky spells!! We finally figured out that this was her way of fighting sleep. She is such an active baby that she doesn't want to sleep because she is afraid that she will miss something. We are getting her in a nap routine and her night time sleeping is excellent . She has no problems going to bed at night and sleeps straight through until usually around 4:30 and then gets a bottle and goes back to bed. We have definately been blessed with that. She is in the process of meeting all the family and she does very well with this. She is still a little hesitant around men due to the fact that she has never been around any but Josh but she is starting to come around on this too.  Today was her first shopping outing, we went to Wal Mart to look for shoes to go with her party dress that she is wearing to her shower Saturday. She loved Wal Mart and was amazed by all of the things and people. She turned quite a few heads and really enjoyed the attention. She loves children I think she misses being around kids at the orphanage so she gets really excited when other kids come around.  We have a doctor's appointment in the morning, so I will post with any new info we may get.

 

Miranda

Well we finally made it! We are home with Hannah and everyone is doing well. We have decided no more plane rides until Hannah is a teenager! She cried the entire way home! We are talking eight hours straight! But we are home now and she is adjusting well. She has had a busy day today with a lot of visitors but she has been happy all day and loves all the attention she is getting. She is in bed for the night now so I finally had time to check my e mail etc. I will update with new pictures soon.

 

Miranda

Hey guys! Today is our fourth day with our little angel. All is well. All of the babies are a little cranky I guess due to the change in routine, food etc. Hannah does really well until the evenings but she is doing better each day. Today Hannah and I went for a walk to the grocery store with Lynn and her daughter Krista. Hannah fell asleep halfway there and slept for an hour or so. Other than that we haven't been getting out much because it is just so cold. Josh has taught Hannah how to shake her head yes and now she does it all the time. Any time you ask her a question she shakes her head yes. It is funny unless you are trying to feed her and she is shaking her head yes making it hard to hit a moving target! I hope all is well at home. We can't wait to get home and begin our life as a family of three. Love You all.

 

Josh, Miranda, and Hannah

Hey guys! Well today is day two with our precious angel. Only 3 more days until we come home! We can't wait to get her home and get settled into a routine. Hannah was a little cranky yesterday evening, ok a lot cranky! But we finally figured out that she had a tummy ache and gave her some gas drops and all was well with the world again. She went to bed at 8:30 and slept until 2:15 then she had a bottle and went back to sleep and slept until 7:30 am. We slept pretty good last night as well. Today we had no appointments or anything so we have just stayed around the hotel. We are in the resteraunt right now and Josh is feeding Hannah while I post this. We are all going to go out to dinner tonight with some of the other families. That is about it for now. Hope you all are doing well. We love you all

 

Josh, Miranda and Hannah

Hey guys! Sorry I didn't post yesterday but I just figured out how to work the internet here! We made it to Almaty at 5:45 as planned and was told that Hannah would not be arriving until 1:00 due to a train delay. We were dissapointed but decided to take a nap until she arrived. The phone rang at 11:30 and it was Adel (our coordinator) telling us that Hannah was here. I don't thnk we have ever moved that fast! When we came downstairs Hannah was asleep on the couch in the lobby (that didn't last long)!

We picked her up and of course woke her up. When she woke up she was a little disoriented at first but it only took her a few minutes to figure out what was going on and then she broke out the smiles! She remembered us right away. She has had no trouble adjusting to us and she is loving all of the attention! Her personality is really showing, she has a lot to say and laughs even more than when we had her in the orphanage. We were a little worried as to whether or not she would sleep last night being in a new place and all but she had no problem at all. She had some cereal and formula at 7:30, went to bed at 8:00 and slept straight through until 5:00 am! She slept betther than Josh and I did. We woke up at 3:00 and never could go back to sleep. Gotta love that jet lag!

 

We went to the SOS clinic today for Hannah to have her physical. She did great! She weighs 18 pounds and is 28 inches long. They took some blood from her finger for her labs and she didn't even flinch! She just watched them draw the blood and put it in the tube. (Maybe we have a future nurse on our hands?!) lol.  Well that is about it for now we are all doing well and having a blast spending time with eachother. God is good!

 

Love,

Miranda

Today is the day! We are finally leaving to go get our baby girl and bring her home! We are so excited! We fly out this evening at 4:00 and will arrive in Almaty Tuesday morning at 5:45 am. We are ready to get Hannah home and begin our life as a family. This has been a long process but it has been worth every minute of it.  Thank you all for your prayers and support. We love you all and will see you next Sunday when we bring our baby girl home.

A week from today we will finally be leaving to go get our baby girl. We have been going crazy missing her and can't wait to see her again. This month without her has been the hardest wait we have encountered so far. We fly out on Sunday and will return home with her the following Sunday. I can't wait! In two weeks our precious angel will be home for good. This has been an awesome experience and we thank you all for your prayers and support. God has been good to our family and blessed us greatly.  I said in my first post that God had a perfect plan for our adoption and boy did he, that perfect plan is Miss Hannah. She is everything we dreamed of and more and we thank God for her. Without him none of this would have been possible.  For all of the waiting families out there reading this please just know that there is a reason for every delay and bump in the road that you encounter. If we had traveled when we thought we should have Hannah would not have been available. Everything happens for a reason and we see that now more than ever. God is good!

 

We will be posting on our blog while in Kazakhstan with new Hannah pics so stay tuned! Again thank you all for your prayers and support and we love you all.