Faith, Hope, and Love: Train Ride

It is a little more difficult to keep up with my blog now! My precious little boy is starting to feel more comfortable and secure with us therefore he is exploring a lot more and becoming more like your typical 2 year old=) Nightime is soooo much better for him now.. he knows the routine and he literaly just lays down and goes to sleep without tears!! Naptime...well that is a different story... but getting better. There is just too much to see and do in his opinion and he doesn't want to miss anything..He is so much fun and his little smile melts our hearts!!!

Yesterday (Monday) we took a 4 hour train ride from St. Petersburg to Moscow..We will spend 3 days in Moscow going to the US Embassy, another required medical exam, and more paperwork before we can travel back home. The trip started off rough.. We left at 1:00 in the afternoon and Andrew was already soooo tired and needed a nap.. He screamed in the car all the way to the train station.. the last time he was in the car was when we picked him up from the orphanage.. not sure if maybe he remembered? Once we got out of the car he was fine..The train ride started out ok..he was eating and happy, playing with his books..then he got fussy.. we were all but standing on our heads trying to keep him happy...didn't work...Let's just say that the last half of the trip he screamed his head off..and he could not be consoled..we tried laying him down on the seat to see if he would go to sleep.. yeah right.. what 2 year old does that=) In the meantime 2 very drunk, very large, angry Russian men tried to get into a fight with my husband..yes, you read that right!!! You had 3 little train attendants trying to keep them off our train cart, them yelling at us (in Russian-glad we couldn't understand!), some other nice Russian men trying to help and finally security stepped in.. Needless to say we were very frazzled by the time we got to Moscow...It then took us about 30 minutes to go 5 miles by car to our hotel.. in which our son continued to scream! Once in our room.. happy as can be!! I think it was just too much for him to understand in one day and we had no way to help him understand... because I only know like 5 words in Russian! We were all ready for bed! He went right to sleep and he is already taking a nap this morning (10 am Tuesday). I am just a little nervous about our 14 hour flight home with a 4 hour layover in London=) Prayers are greatly appreciated!!! He has never slept any place expect a bed and has never fallen asleep in anyones arms...so I am sure sleeping on a plane will not come easy for him..so many new experiences for him=)
I have pictures to post.. but since he is sleeping I don't want to dig around for my camera and cord right now...will post soon=)

Our train!

Looking out of the window kept his attention for about 2 minutes!! It was fun while it lasted!

Here he is.. starting to get fussy..the train provides eye covers, slippers, and earplugs!! The slippers and eye covers actully entertained him for a long time.. we kept hoping he would pull the eye covers down just long enough to go to sleep!! Ha!