Playing ball

Hi everyone. We had a great evening and great 1st night with Taryn. She fell asleep about 9pm almost instantly. She slept all night in a pack-n-play crib. I checked on her several times (just like you do with a newborn :-) ) and she was fine. We had to be up at 6am this morning for a Doctor to do a quick evaluation here in the hotel room; required by immigration. This doctor was very kind and our friend here in Moscow, Natasha, told us that he is THE leading plastic surgeon in all of Russia! And here he was in our hotel room doing an adoption evaluation. How awesome!

So after the doctor left, we fed Taryn and showered and went downstairs to eat ourselves. After we ate, we sat in the hotel lobby for a while. Attached to this post is my first video... you can see for yourselves how happy she appears!

After playing for a while, we decided to do some sightseeing. Natasha took us to Red Square/Kremlin and then to a "market" to get some Russian souviners. We stopped at a grocery store to get Taryn some food, bananas, a couple diet cokes, and then headed back to the hotel. We had a small bite to eat (nachos) and fed Taryn again then headed up to the room for a little down time. Natasha took all our paperwork to the US Embassy today and our appointment is tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2pm. We have an interview for about 1 hour and as I understand we will receive her visa tomorrow after the appointment. Then tomorrow afternoon we pack up and get ready to leave Thursday morning for home! Yeah!

So, enjoy the video and we will post again before bed with some more photos. Love to you all!