We met this morning in the lobby of the hotel. We went into a meeting room and watched a movie and went over our schedule for the week. The social workers and staff are wonderful. I truly cannot say enough nice things about them. At 10:45 the babies came. There are 2 other couples here with us. When Seth was carried in I recognized the outfit he had on. I sent it for his 1st birthday. He is so much smaller than I had envisioned. He cried a lot. His paperwork said that he is not good with strangers. He has serious stranger anxiety. He cried off and on while we were in hte meeting room. After an hour we went to the hotel restaurant for lunch. Seth stopped crying and even ate a good amount of soup. His soup was ordered for him and the other two babies. It was a rice, cabbage , tofu and chicken mixture. He does drink from a cup. Let me just tell you that the boy LOVES his bottle. We will not be taking him off of it any time soon. He had it with him almost all day. After lunch we went up to our room with our social worker. Seth was supposed to be introduced to our room and its surroundings. He was either crying or sleeping in our room. At this point he wanted me to hold him . Basically just for survival. At 2:00 we went downstairs and met the other families. Leah and Brian rode in the Sahathai van with us to Bang Sai. It took a little over an hour to get there. Time passed by fast as we were taking in all of the sights. Our van pulled off onto a dirt road. It stopped at a house and I thought that was the foster families house. Oh no, we had to walk around a little dirt path to get to Seth's house. I say that very loosely. They told us that in the monsoon season you have to take a boat to get there. His house was , well, nothing that I have ever seen. I will tell you that he has been loved immeasurably. The family is rich in love. We got to see Seth in his comfortable surroundings. He is happy and playful. Mrs. Ting takes excellent care of him and has to keep a constant eye on him. She even gave him a bath while we were there. He gets between 2 to 3 baths a day. They say he loves it. After about 2 hours the Sahathai van came and picked us up. We left Seth with them. It was sad leaving him but we know that we will have him full time in 2 days. Mrs. Ting said that she is so sad about him leaving and has had a bad appetite thinking about it.

Kara and Will, they asked lots of questions about you and said that Seth will have a great time living with you. We can't wait for you to meet him! We love you!

Gotta go, Joel is ready to leave the lobby!