We are coming home.... early!

Hello everyone, things are better. Sorry for such the downer posting last time, but things were hectic, when you're tired and kids are screaming and your options are limited, you get a little down... Thank you for the wonderful posts, they have been very uplifting to us!...

We arrived in Moscow yesterday and were immediately wisked off to get medicals done for Andrey done and get his visa ordered. The doctor was also nice enough to check Thomas for no charge, becauae he is still coughing. She said he was fine, as long as things don't sound worse. We also got Andrey's us passport pic taken. Then... we have room service... burgers!! sooo tasty! and we slept from 600pm-630a! much needed... so, things are better, this hotel, the Marriot Treskavaya is expensive, but very comfortable.. so that helps...

Due to Jeanette's dads illness we are coming home 2 days early, so we\ll be home tuesday night.. we are very excited about that.

what else... Andrey is great, active and in to everything. Thomas is getting better at being a protective big brother.. the common phrase coming from Thomas' mouth is "Andrey Nyet!" in english - "Andrey No!" but you can see he is getting better, they play together now, and thomas tries to protect his new brother from getting hurt. If we did bnot have light switches that were so fun to play with, that would cut out half the arguements! They are so fun!

well, i am off, thomas and i are going to ride the elevator some.. sounds fun huh?

thanks again, Greg

ps.. here's something our friend Lori posted about what our names mean...and it seems to dfit with our trip

Greg (me) - vigilant watchman... keeping the fam. safe!
Jeanette - God is gracious. thios adoption idea was hers.. she is very gracious.
Thomas - Twin, one of Jesus' disciples..
Andrey - manly, strong, courageous. so true.. his world has been turned upside down, and has ben a trooper.. and yes he is strong. moves tables and chairs in the air with no problems..\

thanks lori...