The rest of our Tuesday!

OK I wanted to pick up where the last post left off... I hope I'm not boring you all, but it is a good record for me to look back on AND I know Kassidy and Kameron are reading this (hi guys!) so it's helping them to know what we're up to, too! :)

After we left from seeing Kellsey, (which was SO hard, by the way) we had to get her paperwork from the office of the orphanage. One set of paperwork needed copies and another set wasn't ready yet, so after waiting for awhile at the office, we drove around the little town and got some tea (hot tea!) and a candy bar. It was 1:00 by this time and we were starving! Then we drove BACK to the orphanage to see if the papers were ready... after waiting for awhile, they said they weren't. Turns out the director thought we were there for a different little girl, one that my friend is adopting, and had HER paperwork ready! HA! They asked if we were SURE we didn't want this other girl and I said, "No... her mom might be a little mad!" LOL I love that they think the kids are all interchangeable there.

Anyway, we left without that paperwork... it was something to do with her medical forms. We got the rest though. Then we drove back and dropped the social worker off and found a place to make copies and headed back to town to a notary office (and here I thought we were done notarizing things! LOL). We waited there for about an hour while Nadya ran all over the place getting stuff ready, and then we signed on all the lines, officially named Kellsey, applied for her passport (I think... it was something to do with her passport...) and a bunch of other stuff. In the meantime, Oleg ditched us! haha He went off to get something ELSE done for us. He earns his money, let me tell you!

Nadya called a cab for the 3 of us and got us back to our apartment and then she took off. Tomorrow she and Oleg are going back to the orphanage to pick up the paperwork that wasn't ready and get that taken care of. It was a LONG day! We got back here, laid down for a few minutes and then went to dinner with one of the other Reece's Rainbow families here in the city. It was a lot of fun! She has her 2 children with her, so it was fun getting to talk to them and hang out for a bit. They are hitting all kinds of bumps and snags in their adoption process so please be praying for them! I'd link you to their blog, but I don't have permission, so I can't yet, but God knows who they are :).

So what next?! We are allowed to go visit Kellsey 2-3 times a week for 1 hour each visit. We are going back on Thursday and then again on Friday for her birthday :). They said we could bring cookies and juice boxes for her birthday and throw her a little party! I'm SO excited!!! We'll go shopping for that stuff tomorrow. We are also going to try to find her a book or something that lights up and/or makes music. She's definitely into toys that DO things! It won't be anything too big though, because I doubt it will stay with her... but that's ok! Hopefully lots of kids will get use out of whatever we get!

We should also know in the next couple days when court is. Oleg said he thinks it could be as soon as the end of next week! That would be fabulous!!! Please be praying for that! (Have I mentioned it's COLD here?!) :) At some point we need to go to the embassy or the consulate or somewhere and do something... (that was so helpful, wasn't it?! LOL) before we leave. I'm just going to let Nadya and Oleg tell us when to be where and we'll be waiting! LOL

Tomorrow we are laying LOW! I will work on getting the video posted that I have and we're going to go shop a bit for her birthday and just try to stay WARM. Warm is good! Watch for the video tomorrow! :) I am off to bed... it's really late here and Frank is already snoring away next to me. Hope you all are having a good evening! :)