Happy Anniversary to Us

Well, today is 10 years for Mark and I! We could not be celebrating in a better place! The Dillon staff in Vietnam sent us the most beautiful roses!!! We seriously cannot say enough nice things about the staff over here! They are SO wonderful. They walk us through every step, they really care about the families and these darling children. For those of you that haven't traveled yet, you are going to love them all!


So today is a holiday here in Vietnam. What is it about us and holidays! We seem to hit them all. Tomorrow the guys are supposed to pick up passports, then there is nothing to do until Wednesday. Because of course, Monday and Tuesday are holidays! But that is ok, we will just play with our little guy!

He is totally a different boy than the one we spent the first 2 days with! He laughs and smiles a lot. You should see him play, he totally cracks us up. Sometimes, Mark and I are laughing so hard there are tears in my eyes. He likes to do this thing where he shakes his head no real fast. I think he like to make himself dizzy. He has started babbling a lot today. He says "MaMaMaMaMa" I like to think he is saying my name! :) (I know the truth, but humor me!) We are working on trying to get him to sit up on his own. He is a little behind, reminds me of a 6-7 mo old. Which is fine with me because he is saving all the milestones for his mama! That is one thing that made me so sad as we were waiting, I kept thinking I was missing all the firsts. But I didn't, and honestly now it just doesn't matter. All that waiting seems like forever ago. It was miserable while we were going through it....but TOTALLY worth it!

Of the very few toys we brought with us, he has a couple of favorites. There is this block in his hand. He loves to hold it and shake it around. If you aren't careful, he will bonk you in the head with it. He also does this funny thing where he stretches his arm out strong and just kind of pumps it in the air. It is really pretty funny and hard to describe. He will do that when this block is in his hands. He also has a set of big keys, that are chewy on the end. He loves these. In fact the other night he fell asleep with them in his hand and I could hear them move off and on throughout the night. He is sleeping well. He sleeps about 8 hours each night. Which to me is great! The napping, not so good. He only takes 20 min spurts here and there and he will not lay in his bed, he has to be in my arms or Mark's.

For the record, Dylan loves American Idol!! I watched a little last night, and he watched with me off and on, but we were playing. But tonight as been a long show, and he watched it. In fact, when I gave him his bottle, he kept turning his head to watch.

We celebrated our Anniversary today at Pizza Hut! Ok, so you laugh, but it was the best pizza ever. Plus, the best part was we had pepsi with ICE! Oh how I miss ice! Of course they have it, but you can't drink the water, and I never realized how much I would miss it!

The Pizza Hut is in a mall. We walked around the mall, bought some baby food and snacks. Then we walked back to the hotel a different way. Mark bought me a rose from a cute little girl and I got a bracelet from a lady. She was very persistent! Dylan fell asleep in the carrier. We came back, did bath time. He is so funny in the bath. He is a slick little devil and slides all over the tub! He loves it! After his bath, he feels so good he goes crazy. He bounces around, laughing, kicking his legs. At this moment, American Idol is STILL on and he is bouncing around on the bed, moving in circles, playing with Daddy. We may never get him to sleep tonight! He is eating very well! We will have the little guy fattened up in no time. I have to tell you, he has just opened up in the last 2 days. He is so funny and we laugh all the time. We love everyone and miss you all very much. We can't wait for you to meet this darling boy!