First full day with Lex and last day in Penza

First of all I have to thank you for all the sweet emails and comments on the blog. We can not express of much it means to hear from our support group back home! Your prayers and words of encouragement are huge!!!

The lord has brought us on this journey for a wonderful reason and we understand and are fully aware of His presence and guidence but our human nature gets worn down sometimes. Lex is a beautiful, healthy boy who seems to be very bright and processes things very well. His only downfall is balance. He has a little problem staying balanced. You would think he has just had a glass of vodka, not water. He stumbles everywhere.

Last night he slept on the couch and Jason and I slept in the bedroom in the hotel. He slept all night and was sweet thismorning by quitely walking in our room and looking at us. We brought him in the bed with us to cuddle and I'm sure that's the first time that has happened. He was very uncomfortable. I think he will be very independent.

We played for a little while and then went down for breakfast. Lex had a juice box and 1/2 bottle water, banana and crackers before we went down for breakfast so he didn't eat anything. Jason and I had the usual, which means whatever their serving that day, consisting of an egg omelete with small peices of tomatoe with two hot dogs. Strong coffee, two peices of bread with butter and strips of raw fish, and cherry yogart on the side.

After breakfast we went for a long walk down to the flea market and looked at all the great things the locals were selling. Mostly clothes and boots. Speaking of boots check out the picture of my cool birthday boots Jason bought me since we've been here. I love them! Lex started to cry right when we got to the hotel. We're not sure if it was from exhaustion or being frightened but the timing was right. We just headed up stairs and cuddled for a while. Jason and he is playing play dough right now. We're not sure if he's ever played with play dough before. He seems to like it. As i'm looking at them I have to mention his clothes are a little big... he is more of a 3T, not 4T.

Tanya just showed up to help us with some paperwork so I have to run....
Love to all,
Stephenie