Islande is HOME!!

Friday, Jan 29th -- Islande get to go to school for the first time and we get a tour. She will have Mrs. Thompson as her teacher and she will sit next to Sydney. She is excited. We bought all the school supplies and are ready to go. She also got to see Margie at PMA. Margie and Dr. Fred speak french. Islande smiled from ear to ear when they talked to her in French. We also got to meet a lot of people in town and had fun with the seat belt and all the CD controls in the car.

Thursday, Jan 28 -- Islande, Don, Adam and Michelle make a quick trip to Grandma Carolgene's. Islande gets to meet grandma and they pick up Islande's bed. Meanwhile, Patti, Shawn and I get started painting Islande's room (Adam's old room). Islande has been sleeping upstairs in Rachel's room next to us. When she heard me get up, she immediately came into the bathroom and climbed into the shower with me!! She is pretty much attached to my hip. This is going to take some getting used to.

Wednesday, Jan 27 -- We finally got home to Morris about 4pm. Stopped and bought Islande a coat at Columbia and a few other things. She likes hotdogs and french fries, not to excited about the bread. She LOVES Doritos and washing her face - 20 times a day and checks out every bathroom she sees.

Tuesday, Jan 26th -- spent the entire day in the Miami airport. Ended up on the runway in the Delta plane for over 2 hrs then waiting another 2 hours then switching our flight to American and sprinting thru the airport to go thru customs again, security and running to gate D46 from H15. Lost the haitian parole card at the last security check point... would have missed the plane completely if we would have waited to get it back... now what!? We got to MPLS to the hotel about 11. Rachel met us with a hotel room, supper and something for Islande to wear that was warmer than shorts.

Monday, Jan 25th - Waited and Waited for the plane to finally land. They had to stop in the bahamas for a refueling. 200 miles to Miami and we tracked the flight the entire way. They landed about 9:20 and we got the kids just after 10. 6 little ones on the plane with Barbara. Islande was the oldest, another one that was 6 and 4 little ones between 1 and 3. One had a really hard time with a new mama but the rest were excited!