Stop Steven...it's going to POP!!
This will be our last week of visiting our sons in the orphanage before we will be allowed to take them home. We are so looking forward to completing our adoption and starting our life as a family. Saturday will be our 10th day after court, therefore, Monday, December 15th we will be given the court decree stating us as their parents and then we can go to the birth certificate offices to change their names and state us as their parents. Once we have their birth certificate we will have the right to remove them from their orphanages. After we receive their birth certificates we can then apply for their passports, which might take a few days to receive. After receiving their passports we can go back to Kiev to get their medical examinations done for their visa and then go home. The Italian couple’s son’s passport only took a couple of days to receive, therefore it looks like we will be home the Sunday or Monday before Christmas as long as there is availability on the airlines for all of us. We are checking into flight availability now. Hallelujah! We’re so excited and can’t wait to be home and in our own beds.
One thing that is an issue now is that Evan’s cold has turned into bronchitis and we are not allowed to visit him until Monday. The orphanage director wants to make sure he is healthy and that we stay healthy as well by the time we are allowed to take him home. The orphanage doctors are taking good care of him giving him breathing treatments, medicine, antibiotics, warm compresses on his back as well as his vitamins, fruits and juices. There is nothing else we can do but to pray for Evan to be well. So let’s all stand in agreement that Evan is completely healthy and well in Jesus name.
Daddy teaching the boys to use static cling to attach balloons to the wall.
The Italian couple’s 10th day after court was Monday and Tuesday they took their little boy out of the orphanage and headed back to Kiev to wait for their son’s passport there. Since it is two thirds less expensive to wait here in Cherkasy we will probably wait here for the boys passports and then head to Kiev. We were offered to move into the apartment where the Italian couple was staying since it has a separate bedroom and is closer to Evan’s orphanage. Since we were in an apartment were we were all sleeping on sofa beds in the living room with no separate bedroom we opt to move again. So we packed up our things and moved across the courtyard to a bigger apartment. It’s easier to get Andrew down for naps and bedtime having a separate bedroom and all.
When we arrived in the new apartment, we realized that the Italian couple’s bags were still in the apartment. When they arrived to pick up their bags they were quite surprised to see us in their apartment. Their translator was with them and we were chatting with her as the new Mama and Papa were changing their son. Robert and I had to laugh when their translator told Robert that he speaks poor English. It was funny coming from a Ukrainian Translator who spoke some English. I had to laugh and tease him for the rest of the evening that I was going to mention it on the blog. LOL. I know Robert’s sisters and going to have a good laugh and a field day about this one when we get home.
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