first day trip 3

go read heathers post on her blog about our day today ,I'm too tired to write.I write about it tomorrow.
http://fillmoresjourneytoanna.blogspot.com/

Today he is A Nine

Today the 10 days is up and he is legally and truly a Nine! Thank you Jesus! We will be there soon to get you sweet boy, hold on just a few more days!

 

read Heathers blog

Please go read my friend Heather's post on her blog. It is the same way I am feeling.
http://fillmoresjourneytoanna.blogspot.com/2011/03/feelings.html?showComment=1300079805883#c5141269270838856191

I will be flying out on the 15th without Mike I will meet Heather in Chicago and we will continue from there to do everything we need to still do to get our kids. Then our Husbands will meet us on the 27th to bring us home on the 1st.
Mike and I have never been apart like this we do everything together, I am going to miss him so much that it hurts.I'm going to miss the kids too and I know they will all miss me. But I know that this time will go fast and soon we will have our little boy home. I know that Jesus is with us where ever we go and will watch over all of us.we will be a family of 9 soon.

one year

Today it has been one year since we said yes to adopt our sweet little boy and I don't think I can say anything better then this, please go read Madison's and Amanda's posts his big sisters. 
 http://from-myheart-toyours.blogspot.com/2011/03/tomorow-will-mark.html

http://thesunshinebehindtherain.blogspot.com/2011/03/year.html


OH and today is my birthday! and in 5 days I will be going back to get our boy to bring him home forever.

happy boy

so sweet

they call him Sunny boy in his baby home

Vahnya Josiah Nine

                  
                    Vahnya Josiah Nine 
            March 1st 2011 at 12:00 p:m 
                    He became our son.

 

                                  

COURT AT 11:00 AM

We have court at 11:00 am please be praying for us that our words will come easy when the Judge asks us questions,that the judge has favor in her heart for us and that we come away from court today with a new little  NINE !

Happy Birthday Amelia

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
To my baby girl Amelia (Mae Mae)who is 5 years old today.I know we can not be with you today but we are working hard to bring you back the best birthday gift ever,your baby brother! We love you so so much sweet baby girl.HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

3rd visit

I don't think I will ever be able to put into words how much I love this child!

2nd visit

 We are so messed up with our time we were up skyping the kids till 1:00am 2:00pm the kids time and then we slept till 8:30, breakfast is from 7 to 10 so we needed to get ready and go eat breakfast. We don't know if we will get to eat again today so we try to fill up on breakfast. We love their breakfast buffet here, it's so good. We got down stairs at 9:30 had 1/2 an hour to eat before Boris and E were picking us up to go see Josiah. We got done just in time.
 It was snowing and all the roads that were clear yesterday where white today it was so pretty.
We got to the baby home a little after 10:00. We went in, no one was around this time the hall was still,maybe because its Saturday, we walked right to Josiah's room and E peeked in to tell them we were here, They told her like last night to go up to the closet room(they don't call it that we do lol) so we go and wait it was so hot in there that E opened the window. We again could hear him coming up the stairs. When he got to the door he took off running and ran straight into my arms with huge smiles, it felt so good! He was so happy to see us and it was different then last night, he was so happy to see us maybe happy that we came back.
I gave him the duck that I brought him from home that sings the ABC's. He loved it, played with it for a long time.  Again he only wanted to sit on Mikes lap and at one point he looked right into Mikes eyes for a long time touching his beard with both hands and talking to Mike. It was so sweet I just couldn't help it, I started to cry. I have prayed for so long for that moment I so wanted Josiah to love Mike over anyone else and want him first. I know it sounds silly but all the other kids always wanted mommy 1st as babies you know mommy is food to an infant lol so of course they want mommy first. but this time I wanted that for Mike I wanted him to feel the love and the bond of that and it has happened. I can not express how blessed I feel. I will never forget that sweet moment.
we spent the rest of our time playing, he did eventually come and play with me and he would look me straight in the eyes as if he were studying me. I would sing the ABC song along with the toy and he would just look at me so sweet. It was a really wonderful sweet day today, my heart is so full.

little store

  After we got back to the hotel we were hungry but didn't want to go to the restaurant in the hotel so we walked over to the little store across the street. We didn't ever go there last time so this was new for us. As you walk in there are some stairs to go up. This store like all the stores here is underneath some apartments. At the top of the stairs there is a lingerie store with all different type of nylons all up on the windows and night gowns and stuff inside this little shop, reminded me of how a concessions stand looks but with lingerie hhaha. Then you go up some more stairs and into the store it is a grocery store What it reminds me of is the organic section of a grocery store at home, you know where they have shelves of things but only 2 or 3 choices of types or brands. Unlike in the  US where you get 20 choices lol. This is how I think all the grocery stores are here,  E took us to one last time and it was just like this so simple again taking me back to the 40s or something. I can't help to think how do people live like this? with so few choices? but that is an American talking we are so spoiled with junk! so we found a few snack things, we got these pretzels type things and some crackers some chips, water and Pepsi oh and some chocolate yum yum ! junk food!.but they also had on a shelf Easter baskets and a few stuffed toys that you push the tummy and it sings a song in Russian I have no idea what it is singing but I thought it would be neat too get Josiah something like that to have as a keepsake. I didn't get it but we are going back today and I will.

1st visit this trip with our sweet boy

  Ok now for the best post so far,our visit with our baby. We get to the baby home go in just like before, get the covers on our shoes, we stop at the doctors office E talks to him. Sometimes when they talk here it sounds like they are yelling at each other or fighting lol so when they were done talking I asked E what that was all about. She said he was just giving her the phone number of the doctor we will call to do the medical on him before we go to the embassy to come home. Then we went to Joshia's room and looked in, there were 5 kids sitting at the table but no Josiah, E said something to a Nannie and we went up stairs to the closet room, the small room we went to for some of our visits before. We sat and waited, then we heard him coming as he walked up the stairs. The Nannie brought him into the room. He was a bit hesitant at first but I grabbed him up and kissed him and sat down with him. He squirmed a bit, I got out his favorite toy and that was all it took, he played with that toy and loved it. Then I gave him the wooden animals I brought.. He knew all the names and the sounds for the animals in Russian, he is a smart boy. Then he started to play with mike he likes to tease and after that all he wanted was mike, I would take him and sit him on my lap and he would lunge for mike. He is a Daddy's boy I'm happy about that I prayed that he would be.When our visit was over we went to take him down to his room and I opened the door said bye bye, gave kisses and he went into the room with his friends. I stood there and watched for a while. He was so cute with the other kids. there were only 5 kids, last time there were 12 so not sure where the rest of them were.I forgot to say when he first came to the room we put him by the door so Elena could get a picture of him for his passport she took about 50 pictures while we were trying to get him to hold still look straight lol hope she was able to get a good one.

lunch and more

  After the medicals we had a lot of driving around to do and let me tell you driving here is not fun it takes forever and the drivers drive crazy. 1st we had to go get the papers we just had signed by all the doctors notarized so we went to the notary. Well since we hadn't eaten yet we were really hungry and asked E to take us someplace to eat . We went to this little place that was just around the corner from the notary office it was a real  cute place lots of charm for the city .But the food well you could only order 1 of 2 things fish or pork, it came with soup and salad but salad here is not like at home it is pasta salad or cabbage salad like coleslaw.  We got the pasta salad it was ok we ate it but it wasn't the best. Then we got soup she said it was vegetable soup but it had no vegetables it was like cheese soup I guess it was cooked so long the vegetables were cooked down to nothing.It was pretty good but nothing I would go back for, then for the meal I got pork it  was pork chunks and potato chunks in a broth .and mike got fish it had buckwheat on top he didn't eat but one bite of it lol it looked gross to me. oh and instead of water they gave us this strange red juice I asked E what it was she said it was like raisin juice they cook raisins down into liquid it is very common here, they give it to children at a young age, it is good for the heart. well I liked it it was pretty good mike lol not so much but here was
 another time I should have listened to myself because myself was thinking ok raisin juice that may be like prune juice hum maybe I should not drink this.(note to self again please listen to yourself next time yourself tells you not to drink something) I am having the consequences from not listening to myself now spending some time in the bathroom with a messed up tummy.
So after the notary we had to go drop the papers off at the court house just E went in but we got to see what the building we will be having court in looks like. Then it was on to fedx to pick up some other family's documents don't know who, E didn't say. By the time we were done with all that it was 2:00 we were picked up that morning for medicals at 7:00 so we had been out for 7 hours we had 2 hours before we could go see our boy so we asked that we be taken back to the hotel to freshen up and rest a bit before going to the baby home. by the end of this day we ended with having to pay $195 for the driver wow!