One less orphan

Wed, Sept. 24th
There is one less orphan in the world tonight.  :)  He is home in the US and now we await his citizenship papers and passport.  We also are wanting to get him in to see doctors and specialists at Childrens Hospital while we wait.
It's hard to believe that less than 48 hours ago we were in West Africa still.  It's a different world.  A world in which I'd like to keep certain parts of it and then leave others parts behind.  We left Ouaga at around 10pm on Monday evening.  Our flight went to Brussels and was about 5-6 hours long.  As soon as we got on the flight, they served dinner at around 11:00-11:30.  I changed Arouna into his pj's with big hopes of him going to sleep.  He was happy as a lark either sitting on our lap or sitting on his seat, but he was really sleepy too.  So we layed him down on his seat between us with his head on a pillow.  He layed there and wiggled and talked and played for hours.  And then 30 minutes before we landed, he fell asleep.  ARGH!  They served us breakfast about 3-4 hours after dinner and then we landed in Brussels at about 4am Burkina time.  He woke up when we had to leave the plane.  His diaper had leaked all over his pj's, so I changed him again.  Fun!  We had a 5 hour layover in Brussels and Arouna slept for about 3 hours.  We boarded the flight to Chicago and it was scheduled to be a 9 hour flight.  Arouna was happy and content the whole time but only slept a couple of hours.  The rest of the time, he giggled and wiggled constantly.  We finally arrived in Little Rock at about 7pm.  It was a long journey, but went much smoother than we had anticipated.  God had answered prayers again as so many had prayed for our trip back with Arouna.