Internet issues

I am in Nairobi this week with my mom, who joined me on Sunday and Aliyah.  Jon flew home to be home with kids and to relieve his sweet mom who certainly could use the break.  We are so incredibly grateful for her as we could NOT have done this without HER. 
Since arriving in Nairobi, we have seen the immense difference in cities.  Nairobi is MUCH bigger and cosmopolitan butg we happen to be staying in a little ol guest house with VERY SPOTTY internet.  So...after literally an hour and a half of waiting for four pictures to download, an error signal appeared erasing all of them.  Sorry for the black and white bland post, but I just wanted those who are following to know we are alive and well.  I will post the fun stuff later.

Despite our fear of not getting in for an Embassy required medical appointment for Aliyah due to overbooking, we were able to get her in and through the process all by lunch.  Amazing!  Though a bit malnourished at 16 lbs and 11 months, the Dr. said she will make a quick recovery.
Also in spite of overbooked appointments at the Embassy, we were allowed an appointment today for paperwork submission and tomorrow for an interview.  The paperwork portion went well this morning and we look forward to completing our last portion of the process with the interview tomorrow a.m.
The thing we will wait for and PRAY is complete by Friday, is the Adam Walsh screening declaring us "safe" and with no criminal record to speak of.  This has not been completed as of this afternoon, so we are very eager to hear that this step is complete.  Our flights leave Friday p.m., so Friday we pray it will all be FINISHED.

At one point in the waiting stateside process, I was trying to explain to Kyle (5) that the next step was to do such and such.  He asked how many steps there were.  HA!  Too many to count.  I feel like we are embarking on the VERY LAST ONE though I know there will be more to do when we finally get stateside.
But OH HOW NICE it will be to have her safe and sound at HOME!  I can not wait for our family to be complete!

In the meantime Aliyah is just great!  She is waving "hi" and figuring out how to blow kisses.  She has warmed up to the idea of taking baths and I have a great picture of her slapping the water much to her great delight.  I'll post that when the internet is more reliable. Okay, so maybe I had a little patience left in me to wait 2o more minutes.  Cute

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In the meantime, I'd better get this out to you before things shut down.

Thank you to all of you who are praying.  We continue to see God at work paving the way here.  It has been an INCREDIBLE adventure.  I'm sure it's only just begun!