Progress is being made

Thank you for all of the heartwarming comments all of you have left. It makes me cry when I read them and I am in a public internet!

I am first going to address the question about the doctor coming to the orphanage. The doctor that we had with us is from Kiev. We found out about him for the FRUA chat board. His name is Dr. Yuri and he was a wonderful person to have along. If you can't find the information on FRUA, email me at wright.lorrie@gmail.com and I will give you contact information. Good luck on your journeys and thank you for following ours.

Well, we have spent the last 3.5 days with "R" and it seems like so much longer. It amazes me how in just 2 hours a day such a strong bond can be created. We go for about one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. He is such a sweet little boy and is quite funny. He told his caregiver that if she behaves he might take her with him when he leaves. The director of the orphange got quite a kick out of that! Today we were able to take him with us and "Y" to get his picture taken for some of the adoption documents. He was so good and was just awestruck with everything around him. We bought him a Finding Nemo backpack from home and he just loves to strut around with that on. He is very slight so it is nothing to pick him up and hold him. We learned a lesson yesterday... don't give him a banana and 2 juice boxes in the same visit. The first half of the visit was pretty calm but by the second half he was all over the place. Here are the 3 of us all running after him and another couple that is their with their 2 boys are sitting quietly and colouring. "R" does not sit down for too long. He absolutely loves watching video played back on the camera. He is learning a few English words but we have a long way to go.

We moved to a new apartment and it is way better than the last one. I know I said the last one was OK but I was exaggerating. Once again the aromas were abundant. The new place is on the 9th floor of the building... and no, I don't have to take the stairs (I think that might do me in!!). The elevator is really funny. With 4 of us in there it is jam packed and it sounds like it is on its last cable. We laugh every time we get in it. Judy, just think about getting stuck in this one! The apartment is modern and has 1 bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom and fridge, stove and microwave. The view is really nice. We are just waiting for a phone to be put in.

Oh yeah, I named the post making progress and forgot that part. The paperwork is moving along pretty quickly. We already have our application into the courts and hope to have our hearing by the end of next week. I still don't know how long we will be here but so far we haven't hit any roadblocks with paperwork.

One other thing I keep forgetting to mention is that with some of the money that we raised for the orphanage, we will be buying them a computer. This was a request from the director. There are some other things they also need but I am not sure what they are yet. It is a really good orphange; clean, organized and the kids are challenged to do creative things like plays, painting etc. In fact, "R" won some kind of award for his part in a play. One day he was running with his little forearms flapping and we couldn't figure out what he was doing. We ended up finding out that he was a mosquito in the play!

Well I better sign off. Keep the comments coming.