Second Meeting

We met the brother, Z on Friday. He had to be brought from camp to meet us. He was so precious when he walked into a room filled with 5 adults. He sat quietly in the chair and listen to all that was going on around him. He remembers that he has a younger sister. We are not sure if L knows she has a brother. We got to spend a good amount of time with Z and we think he is a great kid. When our facilitator A. asked if we think we can love him, I told her I fell in love with him the minute he walked into the room. I have a little book that gives Russian/Ukrainian phrase in English phonics and Z wanted to look at it. He knows his numbers through 10 in English already! We played a game I bought on for my Nintendo DS and before long he had it mastered on his own. The director said he gets good grades in his schooling. He has finished 3 years, so I will most likely put him in 4th grade. Z loves to swim, loves car and basically is all boy. We are going to see his sister, L this evening when it is cooler. Our facilitator A, went to the notary yesterday to get documents filled out to adopt Z and L. Then the papers have to go back to Kiev. Then we can get a court date. Please pray for a quick court date. After the court date, if everyone is in agreement to the adoption, we have the 10 day waiting period. Then we have to get the final documents and finally we can come home. Please pray for a favor with the courts and everyone we have to go through to get these children. Jeff and I both feel really great about them! There were some concerns prior to meeting L about some developmental issues. However, after meeting her, it is nothing we feel that our love, constant care and health care cannot help improve. We were told when we started the process that a child who has been institutionalized would be behind two more years…this is the case the L. Z is physically small but I don’t think he is as far behind his age as L. No worries!! Helping kids learn is what I do !! We think she is precious and could never reject a child because they weren’t perfect!! To us, she is perfect. They are both so adorable. I can’t post pictures yet, but I will as soon as I can!! In the meantime, we will visit L every day until Z comes back from camp, then we will visit both L and Z daily. We are staying in a hotel by the sea. In American dollars it is actually very inexpensive. There are two bad things, one is no kitchen to cook so we have to either eat in the restaurant every day or eat cold foods and fruits. A spoke with the hotel manager and she is going to let us cook on the bbq pit they have near our room. I will post more later…I always hate to read blogs that are really long for one post! Please continue to pray. We have a long way to go!!