HOME SWEET HOME!!!

Hey everybody,

Sorry it has taken so long for me to post again. As you can imagine, things have been a little hectic. However, life couldn't be any better. Riley has been great!!! As you read in Troy's last post, he did great with the transition. He fell right off the sleep. He woke up a played a while and then basically slept the rest of the night. He also did great on the plane ride home. He took a few naps and otherwise just played. NO CRYING!! I cannot say that Troy and I did that well. The entire flight was quite miserable for us. How we can be so happy and so miserable at the same time is hard to imagine. I was sick basically the entire flight (with terrible nausea). I finally had to take some medicince which made me so sleepy I could barely talk but had no effect on the nausea. Troy basically took care of Riley by himself the whole way, God bless him. Anyway, after ariving at the airport with my parents, a cousin and her husband, and Troy's brother and his wife (Shawn and Rachel), we headed home at last!! Riley slept almost the whole way from Cincinnati and only cried about 5 minutes when we were almost home. The rest of the Welcome crew was here at our house waiting on us!!! My wonderful friends Carol and Angie were here along with Troy's parents and two nephews, Kelby and Addison. What a wonderful occasion it was!!!

After a lot of visiting and picture taking, Riley was getting tired. We all went to bed about 9:30 and he slept till about 2 am. We got up and played for awhile and then back to sleep he went. He only woke up for a few minutes a couple of other times and then slept till about 8 am. I could harldy believe how good he slept. I thank God for that because fortunatly Daddy and me got to sleep to.

Today, our first day home, has been great!! We had some breakfast and then just played and played. He also had a bath (and how cute that was!!). He then went down for a nap around 1130 and slept for almost FOUR hours!!! Once again, me and Daddy slept some during that to. He wakes up such a happy baby. The rest of the day included more play time and some company. My Mamaw, aunt and unlce came from Clay County. My parents came by again too!!! Riley loves to stare at everyone, but eventually will play with them too!!

After some supper, about 1 hour ago, he seemed to get fussy. He hadn't eaten much and I thought he was probably just hungry, but I coundn't get him to eat anything else. He cried just a little and laid his head on my shoulder. In about 30 seconds he was sound asleep and has been asleep since!!!! Hopefully he will sleep good again tonight!!!!!

I know that I haven't posted any pictures yet but I hope to do so soon. I want to show off my handsome little man. We have gotten so many good pictures.

Well, life as parents is already wonderful. It's amazing how you feel!!! God has blessed us so profoundly that I cannot praise him enough!! I want to thank all of you that have been praying for us through this entire journey---those prayers have been answered!! Riley is home and with his forever family!!!

Angie