Sunday, February 24, 2008

Russian family in our neighborhood.

We have a Russian family that lives right down the street from us (Carie, if you're reading this, then you probably know who I'm talking about :)). Anyways, the husband was outside washing his car today, so I stopped to talk for a minute. He and his wife are both from Moscow, and his wife is a neurologist!! I guess she used to examine children in orphanages while she lived in Russia ( I had NO idea ). He seemed really excited that we were adopting from Russia and said that they would do whatever they could to help. He's going to call me over the next couple of days, so that we can all get together and chat. He's offered to translate and his wife is going to examine the baby when we get her back home. How cool is that :0)?

Possible court date in March.

I spoke with my SW on Thursday and she told me that we would probably get a court date in March. Our visa expires in March, and a lot of our medicals, so I've been working on getting the paperwork updated. I'll be going to the SOS tomorrow to have it all apostilled. I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll be traveling back to Russia in a few weeks :).

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Zoo

The boys and I went to the zoo on Sunday and had a great time. The weather was beautiful in Austin. Still no news on a court date :(. Here are a few pictures of our trip to the zoo )











Wednesday, February 6, 2008

100th day of school

Today was the 100th day of school . The kids had to decorate t-shirts with 100 like items, and then they paraded around the school. They were then allowed to visit any of the 7 kindergarten classrooms to do special activities. Here are some pictures, and a video, of Nicholas making a fruitloop necklace. Alex had fun eating the fruitloops :) !









Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Round two!

Well, my paperwork should be in Russia right now. It went over with another family over the weekend, so i'm techically in the "running" again for a court date. I'm so hoping that we get a court date in February, because there have been problems with people obtaining an adoption visa, and we have a dual entry visa that expires March 8th. It would just make life so much easier if we can travel before then. I'm still bracing myself though, because i've seen other couples wait a LONG time to get a court date in this region. I'm keeping my fingers crossed right now!

Saturday, February 2, 2008

I'm offically nesting :) !

I've gone through all of A's clothes and toys, and set aside what we're going to bring with us on our next trip. It was hard, because I really wanted to take everything :). My husband told me that I was bringing too many hairbows. PLEASE, a girl can never have too many hairbows ! One for each outfit :) . I washed all the clothing and bedding. We also picked out the pictures that we're going to take back with us. The judge likes to see pictures of you interacting with your child from the first trip. We also added some pictures of our home, A's room, and our boy's. Now, could we please get a court date??? Here are some new photos!

What we're taking on the trip!









Friday, February 1, 2008