Dates to bring Jacob home!!!!
Since our last post, we've learned we need to be back in Kaz on July 24th. Total trip time will be only 7 days this time.... thank goodness. And travel will be back to Almaty, not Arkalyk, since Jacob will be escorted to the "big city" for us. Even though this trip is just 7 days, which seems like nothing compared to trip 1, 7 days is a long time for little JC. Despite many family offers to keep JC, including Aunt Jill & Uncle Eric who did an AMAZING job during our first trip, we've decided I'll stay home and let brave Tim travel to Kaz alone to pick up Jacob.
Tim leaves July 22nd and will arrive in Almaty early on the 24th. Jacob should be waiting for him there. If all goes as planned, Jacob will visit the American clinic for his HIV test and exam on Tuesday and will be processed through the US Embassy on Thursday. Together, Daddy & Jacob will depart for home Friday morning, July 27th, and arrive in New York around 9 PM same day since they'll be chasing time zones backwards. The big bummer is there are no flights home leaving after 9 PM. So, not to miss all of the action, I'll fly to New York that Friday to relieve Tim and reunite with Jacob. Together, the three of us will fly home Saturday morning to introduce JC to his new brother that he now calls "Jakey the Snakey".
We've spoken with Khibiba several times since arriving home and she reports Jacob is doing great. His first birthday is Sunday so Aunt Jill & I will use this as a good excuse to eat some cake :).
We cannot thank everyone enough for all of your thoughts & prayers. We're so excited to be just one month away from bringing Jacob home!
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YAY! We are counting the days until we have another party at the St. Louis International Airport. Here are my thoughts:
1. Tim, start sleeping an extra hour each night.
2. Jacob already has several nicknames -- we need to start a list.
3. We still need to have a theme for his arrival (i.e. purple balloons for J.C.) -- this may require Tim making up something and calling the aunts.
4. Did someone say cake?
Much love to the growing Giddens family!
Aunt Jan, Uncle Yoda, B-Man & La
The Koenigs are excited too... I still am holding on to Jake the Great. This week we could just go with Jake likes cake, it rhymes better, but it's a dumb name unless it's your birthday. Happy Birthday to our little Jacob. We all love you so much. We haven't forgotten about those chubby cheeks. They could be just plain chapped after Saturday of his arrival. We will do the best we can. Sherri you took 400 alleged pictures and how many hours of video and you couldn't include just one pic on this entry... What are you busy with 2 little ones or something? Well get used to it.. Just kidding.... we are all here waiting and wanting to be called upon. Let us get our hands on that boy! Or old JC for that matter. We haven't completley ruined him yet either. Please please please call us. We want to play too. Love and an enourmous ammount of impatience.
The Koenheads.
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