Today was our second day visiting A. He does not know what to think of all of this.

Watching the snow fall.

I would hold the ball up in the air and drop it. Oh, what fun.

This was probably my favorite part of the visit. I leaned in really close and he laughed.

He’s pretty content just to chew on things. My necklace might have some bite marks on it now.

See? Going for the necklace?

Practicing his walking. He’ll probably be running around by the time we come back.

The last photo, right before he lost it. Can you tell he’s done here?

Aaron suggested I title today’s post “From Russia with Love”, but I can’t really put that, since that gives away the country we’re adopting from. But, it seems like an appropriate title, since today is Valentine’s Day, and we have someone lovely to share with you.

Where to begin? We spent a lot of the morning waiting, and driving in the car. We had our visit to the DOE, we waited for quite a long time, pretty much so that they’d give us the paper to go meet A. But, that was okay, since it was worth it! And we found out his birthday, February 1.

Then, we went to the baby house and got all kinds of info on him. His birth weight and length, even saw a photo of birth mom, got all kinds of info, it was great. I feel like we know a lot of details, which is so meaningful in adoption.

He was eating lunch, so we waited, and waited. We found out that he just had the chicken pox, so he still had some scabs.  Then he WALKED in.

So, meet Anderson…

(The green stuff is what they put on cuts, so he has it on his chicken pox spots). This is the expression he had on his face for most of our visit.

He was so… calm. He crawled around a bit, but mostly, he didn’t mind just sitting there, watching everything about him, looking around the room. He seems to be very observant. There was a tiny little thread on the floor and he dug his nails into the carpet to pull it over to him.

I almost made him laugh with this, putting it on my own head.

But, Aaron got the first laugh.

These blocks have little holes in them and Aaron squeezed it, so there was a little gust of air.

Crawling around.

Someone is probably going to be mad if I don’t share photos of myself with him, so here you go…

Standing, barely supported by me.

And one last photo!

He seemed a little bit shy today, but I am excited to see his personality come out as we get to know him better.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

7 days until we board a plane back to Moscow. 7 days! 10 days until we meet this little guy…

We have so much to do before we go. That is probably good though, or else I’d really be going nuts that we can’t leave right now!