Facial Expressions

I think we have an actor on our hands. Abe is the master of funny faces, catching up quick with his dad. Every night from about 7-9, he rolls around, kicks, moves constantly, squeals, laughs, coohs, and makes hilarious faces. His most recent I don't have a photo of yet: when I kiss him, he squinches up every muscle in his face, rolling his eyes back in his head, and smiles the biggest gummy smile you've seen.

We haven't slept so good in ages ironically. We're all asleep between 9 and 10. He doesn't wake up for the next 9-10 hours. This morning we were sort of nudging him at 8 am. He wakes up smiling.

I've been trying to write down impressions of all we've been experiencing here, which I'll post later after we get home.

A couple of things: The ladies at the Gladney foster home are just as wonderful as we imagined. Yesterday during the coffee ceremony one of his favorite caregivers came in to give him a gift she'd bought for him. As I went to grab the camera to get a photo of them together, I realized that she was crying and crying, trying to hide her face, emotional that this boy she loves is going away. It got me. I put the camera away and gave them their moment together.

About the Ayat House: I'll write more about it later, but Ted pointed out that, as much as we like it, there are some things that may bother some people, like the dogs barking for a couple of hours at night (we use earplugs) and having to turn the hot water heater on every morning. Just little things like that that some people may not like. We think it's all awesome though.

More later...Abe's being squirrelly sitting here at the internet cafe...