Splash Down

This was not contrived, I really meant it!

Home!  What can I say but WE ARE HOME!  I've always appreciated our home, but after being away for so long, I have an even stronger fondness for our home and country.

We arrived in Newark Liberty Airport at 1:45 after a 15-½ hour flight.  Maisey did so well, we’re so thankful for all the prayers for this.  We took off and she played with Mommy for a while and did laps around the plane with Daddy.  Overall she only slept for 3 hours, and not in a row.  But she played so well and only really cried when we were descending and her ears popped a little. 

Maisey sees her new family for the first time.

Meeting her big brothers! Too bad this is from the back
they had BIG smiles.

Giving "Five" to Seth

Meeting her Grandmothers

Considering whether this "five" will be returned.

We got through immigration with only one small delay.  Requirements for citizenship are that all immigrants take an oath, which the agent thought Maisey needed to take (we had already done this in Guangzhou.) So we were sent to the back room where we waited for 10 minutes.  We were finally called, and that agent said “She’s too young to do the oath” and let us go.  So that one snag aside, we said though Immigration and Customs, and to our car.  We got in the car where I started a commute through the NY Metro area, to CT.  Traffic was brutal and we didn’t get home for 3-½ hours.  I said to Lisa “You know what the best part of coming home late is?  You’re HOME!”

So we pulled up and the boys and both grandmothers came outside to greet us.  We took Maisey out of the car and she met the family.  I told them to hold their hands out to let her reach out to them if she wanted.  She didn’t touch anyone but her two brothers and her cousin Ian.  She slapped “five” to her brother and laughed.  They’re officially her brothers now.   Eventually she gave hugs to her grandmothers too.  But we are so glad to be home, and look forward to venturing out soon.

More to come stay tuned.