We finally got to our hotel about 2:00 p.m. Moscow time, which is 8 hours ahead of home time. Konner did very good on the flight other than being a big wiggle worm. He finally went to sleep about 3 hours into the flight & only got to nap for an hour. He doesn't normally get up until 7:00 in the morning and they had him up and ready to go out the door when we got there at 6:00. He's been awake ever since his nap, so I'm expecting him to knock out any time. He's currently wide open in our room, terrorizing everything!
We spoke to our coordinator for Moscow earlier and it looks like the doctor will be here to do the medical stuff in the room first thing Tuesday morning & we won't go to the Embassy till Wednesday. That means everything will stay on the current schedule and we won't be home any earlier than originally planned.
Tomorrow we may venture out and see if we can do a little shopping for souveniers and not get lost!
I can't get the spell check to work on Blogger & it's also not letting me post any pictures, sorry you'll just have to wait till we get home!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Last Day In Tomsk!
Yes, you read that correctly! I wasn't sure if I would have time to update the blog tonight since we are having a little party type thing at the orphanage tonight with cake and tea and then I will have to come back and pack up. We picked up Konner's passport this morning and we received an email from our agency saying that there shouldn't be any problems at the Embassy because they would have to have given all the agencies notice if they wouldn't accept the old passports anymore.
There may even be a possibility that we get to come home one day early depending on how quickly we get things done in Moscow the first of the week. We'll keep you updated on that as we learn more.
Nap time is almost coming to an end, so the next time you hear from us will be from Moscow on Saturday!
There may even be a possibility that we get to come home one day early depending on how quickly we get things done in Moscow the first of the week. We'll keep you updated on that as we learn more.
Nap time is almost coming to an end, so the next time you hear from us will be from Moscow on Saturday!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Alone Time
We went and picked up Konner this morning at 10:30 and kept him till 6:00 this evening. We had a GREAT time with him! They gave us his schedule which we followed as well as we could. We fed him some lunch when we got to the room which consisted of mashed potatoes, crackers, part of a banana, and some apple juice. It took him a few minutes to figure out the sippy cup, since they give them drinks in tea cups at the orphanage which normally ends up all over them! After that he took a nap and it went very well. It only took us about 30 minutes to get him to sleep. He was trying his hardest to get mommy to play instead of sleep and kept poking me and smiling and laughing at me. It was kind of hard not to laugh at him! He slept for about an hour and a half and woke up with the biggest smile on his face! We introduced him to cartoons and baseball (Alan did this of course!) and he was very intrigued by the TV. He even watched Hannah Montana and we recorded some of this for his big sisters to watch. I'm sure Mary & Molly will know what they are saying even though it's in a different language!
He was less than thrilled, as were we, when we had to change him back into the orphanage clothes and put his snowsuit back on. He knows he's going somewhere when the snowsuit comes out.
We will get him again tomorrow for the day, so tomorrow night will be our last night away from him.
I should also mention that when we took his hat off today they had cut (shaved) his hair. I told Alan when we got here that I was going to tell them not to cut his hair again and of course, I forgot. Guess we'll buy some cute little hats to wear till it grows back out.
He was less than thrilled, as were we, when we had to change him back into the orphanage clothes and put his snowsuit back on. He knows he's going somewhere when the snowsuit comes out.
We will get him again tomorrow for the day, so tomorrow night will be our last night away from him.
I should also mention that when we took his hat off today they had cut (shaved) his hair. I told Alan when we got here that I was going to tell them not to cut his hair again and of course, I forgot. Guess we'll buy some cute little hats to wear till it grows back out.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Trip 3 Day 3
Good news today. Leo convinced the director at the passport agency to go ahead and process Konner's passport the old way. He was apparently pretty persistent and they knew he wasn't going to go away until they said ok. He informed them of the fact that we had already made three trips here and this law had changed during the middle of our process, and the baby home is now taking care of our child and would have to continue doing so until we get the passport, so it is also an added burden to them. They agreed and told him this would be the last time this was done and all passports in the future would be processed according to the new law. The new passport have to be issued out of Moscow, so all future adoptions will be a four trip process since you can't apply for the passport until you have all the documents from the office of Vital Statistics. We did have to sign a letter saying that we wouldn't hold them responsible if the Embassy in Moscow doesn't accept this old style passport. If all goes as planned we should be able to pick up his passport as scheduled on Friday, if they have it finished, if not we would have to wait until Tuesday since Monday is a holiday. Worst case scenario is that we have to stay a few extra days and get home later than originally planned.
We are going to go pick Konner up from the orphanage in the morning and bring him back to our hotel for the day! We are looking forward to some one on one time with him since there is always someone walking through the playroom when we are visiting with him, and he seems to think when one of the caregivers comes in that he is supposed to go with them.
We are going to go pick Konner up from the orphanage in the morning and bring him back to our hotel for the day! We are looking forward to some one on one time with him since there is always someone walking through the playroom when we are visiting with him, and he seems to think when one of the caregivers comes in that he is supposed to go with them.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
It's Official!
He's FINALLY ours! Today we went to the courthouse and picked up our paperwork with the court decision. Then we went to the office of Vital Statistics and got Konner's new birth certificate. After that we came back to the hotel for a nap while Leo went to see about getting the paperwork for the passport. And the bad news.......Apparently things changed recently and with the new way they process passports it now takes 3 weeks to get the passport. Leo is going to try to meet with the director of that agency in the morning and see if he can get them to process it the old way so we will be able to get it this week. Please be praying that he can get this accomplished because if he can't that will mean we will have to come back home again and wait this out.
On a brighter note.....we got to go visit Konner today and he was all smiles as usual! He seemed to be tired and didn't want to play much with "the car", instead he was loving on his mommy which you know was just fine with me!!
On a brighter note.....we got to go visit Konner today and he was all smiles as usual! He seemed to be tired and didn't want to play much with "the car", instead he was loving on his mommy which you know was just fine with me!!
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