Our Second Appointment at the NAC

National Adoption Center Emblem 




Today we went down to the NAC and we waited for them to call us into their offices. We went in and met with a different much nicer psychologist that showed some loose files of children that just came off of the ministry and now available for foreign adoption. Our translator went through the individual files with us and their medical records. We selected to meet one of them. It is a boy that is 18 months old as of today and has some normal orphanage delays. The picture of him is his newborn picture when he was all bundled up with his eyes closed. He has dark hair (looks like a typical Millilo baby). Robert and I are both excited that we are moving forward and praying that this child is our little boy. When we selected him the psychologist took his file and held onto it to put it with our dossier and to get our paperwork ready to travel to see him tomorrow. When she took the file out of our hand the tears of happiness and relief started to well up in my eyes. Valentina and Alla saw that I started to get emotional and motioned for me to stop. I guess because we still have to visit him and THEN give our final approval to adopt him. The psychologist just smiled as she knew they were happy tears. So I controlled myself and stopped crying. Please keep praying for his health, and for God to continue to give us wisdom, direction and discernment on the decision of this little boy. REMEMBER NOTHING IS GUARANTEED YET!! We waited for our referral letter to give us permission to visit him on Tuesday, Aug 2, 2005.



This highlighted region is where we will be traveling to. 




Once we got the letter and all of our documents we went to the travel agent to get train tickets for late tonight. Alla said that it takes approximately 5-7 hours by train to travel to Dnipropetrovsk region where the orphanage is located. This region is SE of Kiev. If you look on the map I highlighted the region where we will be visiting the little boy. We then went back to the apartment to collect our belongings, and got drenched from the major downpour of water after getting off of the taxi bus. We should arrive in Dnipropetrovsk around 7am and will then meet with the inspector of the city and of the orphanage. After that we will meet with the orphanage director, orphanage doctor and then meet the little boy. We will keep you all informed as much as we can on the outcome of tomorrow. We know that you all are just as excited for us as we are in becoming parents. We hope and pray that our internet service will be as good there as we have here in Kiev. Until we blog again, keep us in prayer for safe travels. Love to you all!!