Home at last

We made it home yesterday (Friday) at about 3:30pm. The flights were not bad at all, Hai seems to like to sleep in airplanes (hurrah!).

Immigration only took about 5minutes - we were expecting 45 - so it was all over in a hurry and Hai is officially in the US on an "IR-3 immigrant visa". A bit more paperwork and we'll be able to get his US passport and a social security number so we can put him to work.

Josie was a star for the past couple of days getting our flights changed to Friday and generally being the pack mule around the airport (who knew such a little person would require so much luggage). I'm sure she's glad to be back in the USA and back with her doggies that missed her terribly, but words can't really describe how much she helped me through these past 2.5 weeks. Zizi, we love you!! :-)

Buk Jaap (uncle Jaap in Vietnamese) picked us up at the airport. I'm certain he has a very unbecoming picture of us pushing our luggage out of customs, but you'll have to check his blog to see it: www.suermondt.com

We had the car seat all ready in Jaap's car, but it did take us a few minutes to see how to adjust it so that it was snug. Probably would have been helpful to read those directions before rather than trying to figure it out after a 18-hour journey, but we managed :-)

We got home to a home cooked meal by Maria of all my favorites. If you ever get a chance to eat Maria's rosemary chicken, do not pass it up. And I have enough creamy mashed potatoes to satisfy me for a week. It was great to see Maria and Christina and Curt and Jake last night - and Hai already has a crush on Christina - he was playing with her golden curls right away.

I'm sure I'll be seeing or talking to a lot of you in the coming week. So far, we're doing just great. Neither Hai nor I know what time it is, but the good news is we were both awake at 2am to play last night :-)

We've got our first appointment with the pediatrician on Wed, 10/31. We will be wearing out trick or treat t-shirt!

Love you all,

Melissa