Introducing Tyler Duc Templeton

So sorry for the delay, I finally figured out how to get to my blog site. Now, I don't even know where to begin, there is so much to tell.

We have The Duke, and he is now officially Tyler Duc Templeton. The scene picking him up was surreal. We arrived at the orphanage after dark, after 30 or so hours of travel. (But we had it easy - the family from Arkansas who is travelling with us had travelled 40 hours already). We are taken to a dimly lit room, where we sit at a table and shake the hands of the orphanage director. A dozen or so kids we're surrounding us. Then, they hand us the wrong babies, but fortunately, we could tell from the photos which babies were ours. Then we were escorted to an outside table where we were supposed to drink beer and snacks with the orphanage director. I had a list of questions about the babies, but unfortunately didn't get real helpful answers. Except one - the babies definitely don't have a schedule, they eat and sleep whenever they want! Randy walked around and got tons of great shots of the orphanage and the other kids. The place was pretty dingy. However, the babies were well cared for - and got lots of attention. There were lots of girls and teenagers who doted on the babies. Then, as quickly as we arrived, we departed, and drove another hour to our hotel. And voila, we were a family of four.

Oh, I forgot to mention that Anna slept thru the whole orphanage trip. She woke up when we got to the hotel and I told her that she had a new baby brother. Her first comments, "he's cwoot".

Anna has been fantastic. The baby has bonded to her first. She dotes on him, entertains him, fixes his bottles, collects his toys. In fact, she wants to hold him so often, that we have to convince her that we need a turn to.

Let me post some photos and I'll do another entry shortly.