[Kasey]

We just completed our second adoption this past November, our oldest guy was 2 1/2 we did not consider taking him with us on first trip. He is very spirited and I am not sure how we would have done with the time change, the long flights, etc... We also knew our referral had some medical issues we needed to investigate and from adoption previously we knew the trip could possibly be stressful. So for us we opted not to.

Also both of us had to travel both trips for our region this time around. But both parents have to be in court on second trip, one can leave right afterwards.

We debated bringing him on trip 2 because we missed him sooooo much, I can say it was truly harder on us then him. He had a blast with family and cousins, etc.. and he was able to stay on his schedule. We were considering bringing him and a family member and leaving them in Moscow while we went to region. We decided to just leave him home again. It worked out for us. I figured he is really too young to get the whole experience, if he was older I would have totally done it. But all that travel and stress is alot on us and alot to ask of our almost 3 yr old. People thugh do it and have a great time, but for us and knowing our son, it was best for him to stay home.