Reunited!!!!

Today is the day we have been longing for since our last visit 4+ months ago!!! We got to see our beautiful baby boy!!! I am not really sure if he remembered us but he sure warmed up pretty quickly. We brought pictures from our 1st trip and tried to spark his memory!!! They brought him into us and he was bundled up like a snowman!!! We couldn't wait to get the layers and layers off of him so we could get a good look!!! He looked as gorgeous as ever!!! What a sweet reunion it was! We are now counting the days until the THREE of us are all leaving the Baby Home together and on our way home to the good ole' USA to start our lives together.

Sleep tight angel and we will see you again in just a few short hours.


Side note - we are hearing and are being very hopeful that our luggage will arrive tomorrow afternoon. Keep your fingers crossed.

The good news is.......

We made it to Vlad and to the Vlad Inn. The bad news is...............only us and the stuff we have had since we started out on friday night in Huntsville are with us!!! NO BAGS......3 bags checked....not ONE single one made it!!!! Of course, 1st instincts are to freak......I (we) are trying to stay calm and hope that they arrive in a day or so!!! Last thing I expected to be doing within minutes of arriving at the Vlad Inn was doing wash but unfortunately that is what I am doing!! Thankfully since we have been traveling for a few days, we have a few changes of clothes so guess we will just have to get used to seeing ourselves in the same clothes for a while until our luggage arrives - yes, I am being optomistic that it WILL arrive hopefully sooner rather than later!!!! So much for being a Platinum preferred customer with the airlines!!!
Please say a prayer for us that we get our luggage soon!!!

2ND GOOD NEWS......tomorrow morning we will meet our girls at 9:00 am and head to the baby home to see our angel.....when we think of that all the rest of the anxiety goes away!!! He certainly won't care if we are in the same clothes everyday!! :)

2 Flights down - 1 to go!!!

We made it to Seoul, Korea last evening. Korean Airlines once again was absolutely fabulous unfortunately we will not be flying home with them since we will be taking our road trip to Moscow. We stayed in the Transit Hotel here in the airport overnight and are nice and refreshed for our flight to Vlad this morning. We are on cloud 9 hoping we only have 1 morning to wake up before being able to hold our little boy in our arms again!!!! Our court date is on thursday, Feb 4th so we will be getting prepared as well for that with our girls in Vlad for the next couple of days!!!!
We are preparing to step off the plane in Vlad in a few more hours and hoping the temperature is at least a positive number!!!! Thank goodness for nice warm winter clothes! We are going to need them. Nothing like Russia in February!!!!

Hang on angel.....we are almost there!!!!

The Countdown is Beginning

Today marks 1 week and counting until we set out on a jet plane to bring our beautiful baby boy home!! We will be arriving in Vladivostok on Monday, Feb 1. Instead of using a courier to go to the US Embassy in Moscow, we have decided to take a road trip and will be heading to Moscow and spending a few days to finish up all the necessary paperwork. We look forward to visiting Moscow and experiencing all the history the city has to offer. I am sure there is nothing like Moscow in the middle of February!!!

WE GOT OUR DATE!!!!

FINALLY.....we got our court date - February 4th!!! We will be leaving next weekend to go get our beautiful angel boy!!!! Words cannot explain how excited we are!!!!! It has been a very long road and the light at the end of the tunnel......IS SHINING VERY BRIGHT!!!!!
Hang on angel.....we are coming!!! Less than 2 weeks we will be reunited and will never leave eachothers side again!!!!
Our hearts are exploding with love for you and you are always on our mind!!!!
Can't wait to hold you, snuggle with you and give you more love than you could have ever dreamed of!!!!!

Bittersweet

The holidays this year in the Cooper house are I guess we could call "bittersweet"!!! We are so excited that we have met our baby boy, have held him, have cuddled with him, have given him his oh so perfect name and have fallen absolutely totally in love with him BUT we are so sad that he is not here with us yet in his new home to celebrate the Christmas holidays. We have decided that we will leave all of the decorations up and keep his presents under the tree until he arrives which we are hopeful to be sooner rather than later! This wait between trips is excruciating! Everything is ready and now we are just waiting for HIM!!! We continue to just try and stay as busy as possible as we wait for the phone to ring to tell us...."get going - your little boy is ready to come home!"

Merry Christmas our little angel!!!! Not too much longer and we will be reunited with you and this time we will never let you go again!!!

We love you!!!

Thanksgiving and Shower

My mom and sisters had a fantastic shower for us this past weekend while we were up north for Thanksgiving. Along with the shower, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner and visit with our families!!! It was also so great to see alot of friends that we had not seen for a while. We have so much to give thanks for this year including the wonderful family that we have along with our little angel who we cannot wait to bring home very soon!! We got so much fun stuff for "K" including wonderful books, lots of fun toys and I think he will be the best dressed kid on the block!! :) I sit in his room and dream of us rocking in the glidder reading books for hours on end. We are holding our breathe that we will be hearing very soon about a court date!!! The suitcases have started getting packed so we will be ready to head on the jet plane ASAP!

Stay warm our little angel....we will be there very very soon!!!! We love you!!