Appeal Day 09
By admin | 13 Mar, 2008 - 12:26 pm
Posted in Category: In Country

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Joel and I have been worried about Gabriel’s arrival.  We’re trying to figure out how we are going to give him a bath, where are we going to put him to sleep, is he going to get sick the moment we leave the orphanage, etc…Both of us didn’t get any sleep last night worrying about this.  I guess now more than ever, we wished we had the comforts of our home.

Gabriel greeted as us this morning with his usual smiles.  He analyzed the attendance in the playroom to see if there were any new faces.  He seems to always be aware of his surroundings.  He was eyeing the walker so we put him in there.  He started jumping the second we put him in it. 

We headed back to our apartment for lunch.  We didn’t do anything exciting for lunch.  I was tired from my restless night’s sleep and took a nap.  Joel prepared some pictures that we needed to get printed to give to Gabe’s nannies.  One of his favorite nannies is leaving for a month vacation tomorrow and we wanted to give her a gift before she left.  She expressed to us that she will miss Gabriel and that she was saddened that she wouldn’t be here to say bye to him.  We were very touched and comforted to know that Gabriel was loved before we came for him.  She was very sincere.

Gabriel was visited by Gaia (Bernadette’s beautiful girl) on his blanket today.  Gaia will be moving to France when her paperwork is completed.  She has the most amazing eyes and Gabriel was stricken by them.  I sat both of them in front of me.  Gabriel instantly put his right arm around Gaia, pulled her closer to him and went in to kiss her on the cheek.  We couldn’t believe our eyes.  Our little boy was putting on the moves.  Gaia was being quite the lady herself and was ignoring Gabriel.  Gabriel remained persistent and tried and tried again to kiss this beautiful little girl.  Needless to say, Papa was very proud of his little Casanova.

Paka!

 

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13 Mar, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
occhelle said:

I can’t wait to meet my only, very handsome
GRANDSON!
Hurry back home so I can shower him with alot of love and affection. So I can spoil him too the right way. lol

this is Gabe’s babuschka on chelle’s login since I don’t know how to log in.

13 Mar, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
occhelle said:

PS

I cannot WAIT to babysit him!

13 Mar, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
doh said:

I knew he had a girlfriend!!!

13 Mar, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
Lindsey said:

wow, he’s learning to woo the ladies already?! maybe i DON’T want to meet up with you guys!! ;) my husband is already losing sleep about cute boys around our cute girls…LOL.

i completely relate to your worries about how you will care for gabe when you take him from the orphanage. i don’t think i slept a wink the night before we got camille because i was stressing over it too! for bathing, i just bathed camille in the sink and she was fine with that. she actually preferred it over the big tub, which seemed to scare her at first. as for sleeping, the first night she slept in the bed with me because i was very worried about her because she was sooooo sick. the nights after that (after my husband and 2 year old flew home to the US) camille slept in the playpen we had brought. is there anyone there who can loan you a playpen? maybe one of the other traveling families has brought one or maybe bayana can find someone she knows to loan you one? when you get to almaty, i’m sure your hotel will have cribs as those hotels are used to catering to adoptive families. anyway, i could go on and on…LOL. email me if you want some more tips or if you want me to relate anymore of our experience of the first few days “on the outside” with camille.

it will all be ok. you will probly have to improvise some, and it definitely wont’ be like home. but it’ll go by quick and gabe will be having so much fun checking everything out, i’m sure he won’t have time to complain. ;)

13 Mar, 2008 @ 8:14 pm
Lindsey said:

by the way, obviously i seem to think i am in some sort of contest for who can write the longest comments. i’m a little long winded i guess. geez, sorry!

14 Mar, 2008 @ 10:43 am
admin said:

HE IS GORGEOUS!
Hey Feliciano Family! I realize it has been a while – and I cannot get over how beautiful Gabriel is! I am so emotional right now looking at all the pictures! I apologize for not keeping up with all the information – so much going on for you – and all seems like you two are hard at work to bring him home in an organized and careful manner. I cannot wait to meet him! I will make sure my kids are healthy when they come by – they are getting over various germs. Gen and Joel we wich you the best of everything. He is so precious and my goodness – give him a kiss from me!!!! As far as the grinding goes – keep giving him something else to bite – and just enforce the “do this”…instead comment. “No” is such a negative – and let me tell you – the kids learn that soon enough. Again – much love to all of you… Sots

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