Sorry Pat but another man has stolen my heart!!

Day 3 in Hoa Binh. What a journey! We spent all day yesterday at the orphanage. What a gift to see the inside workings. Anybody that has been referred a child from Hoa Bing is lucky indeed! The nannies are amazing. Not to brag, and perhaps we're biased, but Van's nanny is the most amazing! She loves him like crazy and he is wonderfully spoiled :) All the children are treated so well. The ratio seems to be about 3-1. The orphanage is clean and quite big. There are a lot of older children who help with the little ones. There are some really wee babies there. During a break from loving my little Van I was loving on a little guy who couldn't be more than a week old. Everything runs very efficiently and the babies are not left long if they are crying. There is a really funny older blind lady who alos helpwith the little ones. Yesterday she was throwing a dirty towel towards the basket and she hit Pat, well she got the biggest kick out of that. All the nannies laughed. Everybody is so nice there and we are so very lucky to get such a bird's eye view.

So I know everybody would like some info about our little guy. He is pretty easy going. He loeves to be carried around so he can see the sights up high lol. He is a love bug and has taken to us quite well. Especially me. He reached for me no problem. He of course loves his nounou most of all which is totally understandable but he also seems to really like us too so we can't ask for anything more. He was shy at first but once he realized we weren't so bad he figured he would take the extra attention no problem. He is a charmer that's for sure. All the nounous can't pass by him without a smile or a word and it doesn't take much to get him to grin and laugh. He crawls like a bat outta hell and you have to really watch him. He stands in his crib and cruises around inside but does not seem too interested in walking yet. He's a bit bow legged lol and we realized that's because he loves to be carried and gets carried a lot. When he was born he weighed 4.5 pounds and the nounous indicated that he was as skinny as my arm. Now he is 19 pounds which is amazing considering his birth weight! They are all amazed at how well he has done and think he's a big boy now which I guess he is. He has a crazy amount hair and it all sticks up into a bit of a mohawk that makes everybody chuckle. His 6 month pics clearly showed him with a haircut. He'll be getting and another one of those when we get home :) He has 4 teeth, 2 on the bottem and 2 on the top but not through a whole lot. I am in love!!! Pat is loving the daddy bit too and we fight over the opportunity to carry him. Although frankly my carrying cannot be too long because I sweat so much that he gets all sweaty too. It is hot as hell here lol. Very very humid!!

SOn another note we are kind of stuck here. Have no idea when the G&R will be. We are now trying to decide what to do for the weekend. As much as we love going to the orphange, it is hard on the nounous and their routine for us to be hanging around there all day everyday. We have decided that if the ceremony is next week we will either go on a hill tribe trek this weekend or go back to Hanoi. We don't want to leave Van but we can't stay here that whole time. Hoa Binh itself is not very interesting and the hotel is a bit noisy so it's not very relaxing. They are all very nice though.

So that's our update for now. I will update again once we know our plans.