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08/23/2004: "Finally, we are home!"
mood: Relief (at being home), Sadness (at leaving her) and happiness (at the prospect of bringing her home)
After what seemed an eternity of travelling, we finally got home just before 11am. Next time, we are definately making sure there is a bigger cushion between our international flight and our next domestic flight.
At any rate, we are glad to be home, but of course we miss Lidia very much!
We crashed after we got home and made some calls to family; slept until around 5pm!! (Our bed felt SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO goood) Then I got up to run our film to get them developed quick. We got some good pictures 
I posted a few more on the gallery.
Our schedules are completely whacked now as it is 1am and neither of us are tired!!! Adam is going to work tomorrow, I took the day off because I knew I would have this problem. I will try to go to bed after I'm done with this.
Lidia is about 16 lbs now!! She is very much an average sized baby. After all the things we've read of orphanages, we really expected her to be thin. Thin, she is not! She has chubby baby hands, and baby rolls on her thighs. Totally adoreable! I tried some clothes on her on the last day. She has a bit of room to grow into a 6-9 month sleeper and she is absolutely swimming in a 12 month outfit. So I will plan to take 12 month clothes back with us. She seems to be averaging about a pound a month (for the past 2 months) so, I think 12 months will even be a little big by then. At any rate, they'll give us new measurements just before we go again, so we'll probably be able to tell if she'll need anything bigger than that.
Otherwise, I guess now we just need to finish up our paperwork for the agency, get our medicals done, and wait.
In the meantime we'll finish her room (and hopefully paint the living room and stain the deck... we shall see). Plus we'll need to start child proofing! She's an active one! I would not be surprised if she is walking when we get back, or very close to it.
Okay I'm going to try to sleep now...
~Crystal
