Friday

So, we get to pick little Roman up one week from today - yay!!! Our facilitators said that they didn't think we'd have problems with what is happening in the news, especially since we've had our court date. He said it would take Russian supreme court to overrule Krasnoyarsk court decision. However, they had already talked to the judge twice today, and she told them they were going to add an extra required visit with a child on the first visit (making it 4 visits with child on first trip) and an extra visit with child before court on the second trip (2 visits before court). Also, they were going to have more supervision on the visits - by a govt worker perhaps. Anyway, we're still hoping for not much difficulty processing everything that remains.

Yesterday we had a great time with the American couple we met at the orphanage over dinner. We were able to walk them around a little bit and show them a few places - which will especially be helpful for their second trip.

Today we had a very lazy morning. Our facilitators weren't picking us up until 3pm today, so we skyped with family this morning and got to see and talk to Kate. She's a cutie!! She's having so much fun playing outside and enjoying the weather, so that has been great. After talking on the computer, we got dressed and went to lunch. We saw the same couple at the restaurant, so that was fun! After that, we went to the grocery store, went to the apartment, and then it was time to go to the orphanage.

Roman was good today - he had gotten a vaccination earlier that day, so he was a little tired. But, I did get to try on some outfits on him today to see how the sizes fit. He was SO funny - he liked being "nakey baby" as we call it at our house. He didn't want to put all those heavy clothes back on!

We had fun talking to our facilitators today - they were very talkative on the way home. We won't see them again until Monday. Tomorrow or Sunday we'll try to take more pictures around town.