Jet Lag wearing off

Sorry for the lack of posts, but today is the first day my brain has been capable of typing complete sentences.

We have been home for a week now, and things are good. We went to church yesterday. I felt smothered, but little miss seemed fine. She took a great nap when we got home.

She also met Mamaw Carla for the first time, and showed herself. She was a little grump and threw a fit when I did not allow her to yank her brother's snack out of his hands. She tends to behave as though she should get away with anything. We are trying not to allow that. We can't make up for the time spent in an orphanage by allowing bad behavior. She also had her first "time-out" on Saturday. She swatted a toy out of Daddy's hand and grunted. He was trying to help her clean up. We sat her around the corner (she could see us) and she cried her "I didn't get my way" cry. then she got up and started helping clean up the toys. Which proved to me she knew what she was supposed to be doing.

It's been a trip trying to know what to do when she is clearly misbehaving. We know that certain punishments are not appropriate for her, but we can't allow behavior now that we will eventually punish for. That will just make learning the rules harder for her.

Oh well, new topic. Let's go to sleep. She is finally sleeping through the night. YEAH!!!!! But Daddy has been sleeping on the couch because he can't sleep with us. BOO!!!!! So today, I am pulling her toddler bed into our room. I am going to put it right beside our bed, and I will start putting her down for nap in it. When she gets the hang of that, she will go down at night in it. After a couple of months, we'll move it back to her room. She shares a room with brother, so she won't be alone.

Now to the stuff you actually want to know. She calls us all by the VN words for Mommy, Daddy, and Brother. She is saying: I love you, night-night, bye-bye, go potty, thank you, welcome, go wonderpets, peek-a-boo, mamaw, mimi, papaw, and some others. She loves to dance. She signs eat and drink. She also says eat in VN. She loves her bath. She is fully potty trained and has only had 2 night-time accidents. She loves playhouse disney and nick jr. She loves noisy toys, uggghhh. She is a GIRLY girl. She loves picking her own shoes and always wants hair bows, although she pulls them out two seconds later.

AND she is letting Jay pick her up!!!!! The first time was because he was close to candy, BUT she didn't come get me. He has held her in his chair and picked her up several times now. She still won't let him do ceratin things, like get her out of the car seat. Continue to pray for their relationship.

All in all, being home is great. True adjustment does not happen in a hotel half a world away. It happens in day to day REAL LIFE. And we feel as thought she is adjusting very well.

The Kids!

At long last...

We are home. We arrived yesterday early afternoon. Elijah and in-laws met us at the airport. I swear he grew two inches while we were gone!

Then we drove home. We were welcomed by a clean home, a meal in the fridge, presents, and a wonderful sign. Thank you all!

Then the real test, how would the two interact???

They loved each other! There was giggling galore! (I will post a picture of them playing later.) They make quite the team, and that will surely bite us later. For now it's wonderful to hear our children, plural, playing in the next room.

Sadie Trinh seems to be adjusting well. She loves her new home, and plays in rooms by herself instead of following mommy around. She doesn't seem to mind the low temps. Jay still can't hold her, but she plays with him and kisses him. She is quiet when new people come over but eventually warms up and begins talking. She doesn't let new people touch her, but will allow them to hand her things.

I want to post an overall on our trip, but we are exhausted right now. Just know that all of your prayers have been greatly appreciated. We are looking forward to everyone meting our beautiful new daughter.

Three Cities; Three Days

Well we finally arrived in Hanoi last night. It is
amazing how different the three cities have been.
The pictures are all from out of the hotel windows, the top is in Hanoi, next right is Danang, and the last one is Tam Ky.

We asked you all to pray for the embassy appointment for Friday, and guess what, God has come through again. The appointment for Friday is still a go with no problems.

Prayer Please

Just as everything is falling into place, trouble. Our travel agent cannot find a Friday flight. The Embassy is saying if our paperwork isn't turned in by 9am on Thursday, then our appointment will be moved to Monday. Our clinic appointment is at 9:15 on Tursday so we cannot turn our paperwork in until 10am at the earliest.

We know it's all attack. Please pray that everything will work out. We want to come home! Pray that our appointment with the Embassy will stand. Pray that flights will be made sooner.

Pray! Pray! Pray!

Finally Some Photos!

"Leavin' On Jet Plane"

Sorry to disappoint you all :) The Willhoite's, party of 3, will be leaving Vietnam on Friday, November 7. The flights plans are being made right now, so we will have more info for you tomorrow.

Thank you for all the prayers, it is only through God's goodness that we got a Visa appointment on Friday. Some of you may not know, but the US Embassy does not always make Visa appointments on Fridays. Her Visa should be ready by Friday afternoon, and we will take the 7:55pm flight to Hong Kong.

Please continue to pray for our travel as well as Sadie's adjustment.

WE LOVE YOU ALL!

Lunchtime Fiasco

We tried to take Sadie to the restaurant for lunch. She whimpered when we first got there. Everyone was standing around looking at her. I think she was overwhelmed. Then she started full on crying. I took her upstairs for her meltdown. Unfortunately, the maid was still here. Sadie's crying made her cry. I felt like a failure as a mother. I felt like everyone was thinking that she shouldn't be with us. That was hard.