Day 6

Our facilitator, Valery, went to the government office to begin the paperwork. The office here hasn't done international adoptions for many years, and the women in the office needed to get the forms. Valery was able to give them examples of forms needed.

We met Valery in the afternoon with the attorney for the office here. She needed to observe us with the children, and then her boss came about an hour later to follow up on the process. They were both very nice, and had nice things to say. Incidentally, both of their names are Tatiana. The head boss said she was surprised at how much they look like us! She was pleased with the contact that was made, and said she would begin the paperwork process on Friday.

We thought we would be able to come earlier, but were unable to because we needed to wait for the government officials. About 3:15 we pulled up, and Alina was all dressed up in a pretty dress, socks, and shoes. As we pulled up by the building, she was jumping up and down clapping her hands! Ruslon also had a dress shirt and pants on. Yuri came running out of the orphanage and up to us, very excited. We spent a few hours with them. They enjoyed taking pictures with our camera, eating sunflower seeds, and climbing on us. We were told that we would be able to take them out for pizza and ice cream on Friday. They became very excited!

After we left the Tatianas took us to a bookstore. We purchased children's books written in Ukrainian that teaches them English. We got several levels of books for them and will give them to them on Friday.

Here are two photos of where we are are staying:





All in all, a good, long and tiring day!