Today, we visited Katie again at the baby home in Ussirysk and returned to find out that the entire city of 800,000 in Vladivostok has no water today. They turned it off apparently to fix pipes before the cold season. This is really roughing it for us! No showers tonight and no laundry either. I was going to wash some clothes, but we will just have to do without tonight. Often, as Americans, I think we forget some of the luxuries we are afforded when others in this world, like our Katie are not so lucky. But WE are the ones who are eternally blessed that God allowed this match between us to happen. Here are some photos from today. We will have to save the videos to upload when we return next week. The internet is just too slow here. Ussirysk Baby Home #3 Waiting for them to bring her to us today... She LOVES bananas!!!! She already really loves walking around holding BOTH our hands... My favorite l...
So, today was one heck of a day! I was down in the dirt and worried about what that woman in Tennessee did with sending her child back unaccompanied to Russia. And, we got a call and our home study was approved by Beacon House!!! We are SO happy!!! So, from here, we just have to wait for the home study to be sent back to us, notarized and certified then we can send it on to immigrations. We have to wait for our I-171H approval before we can officially submit our first set of dossier documents!!! We are half way there, according to our agency!!! I can't believe it! This is one of those "small victories" that life sends us on days when we really, really need it!
Hello from the wonderful U.S. of A!!! I am so GLAD to be home and in our own environment!!! Our air travel didn't exactly go as planned and we made it home after 1am! She is SUCH a trooper and handled the flights miraculously!!! She slept the entire flight from Vlad to Moscow. The first night in Moscow she went right down to bed and did wonderfully! The flight from Moscow to Washington D.C. was quite a different story for little miss! She didn't want a SINGLE toy that I packed for her to play with or even anything to eat. There were a lot of Russian men on the plane and she must have went up to every one of them, charming them and then they picked her up and said something to her in Russian and this trend continued for the 9 1/2 of the ten hour flight. She did not sleep but just for 30 minutes on that long flight from Moscow, so neither did I. (I am about to go to sleep as Aaron has stepped in and kind of taken over until ...
Aww...she will be singing up a storm running around at home with you guys so soon!
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