Viktoria made great progress for us yesterday and most of the local paperwork is completed. We need the Rivne city council to approve our plans and Viktoria worked on this all day without success. The city council leadership authorized to sign our documents have proven to be elusive. Once this step is complete, the document package travels by bus to Kyiv and to Galena (we don't need to go). The SDA in Kyiv then takes six days to review our paperwork and, we hope, approve our application. The document package comes back to us in Rivne by bus and we are then ready to make a court appointment here. We'll be here a while!
On the other hand, our time with Peter today was great. When he initially refused the opportunity to give us a kiss, one of his classmates came over and kissed us instead. Well, Peter was paying attention to that turn of events, pushing the other children away and saying 'my Mama, my Papa'. We're his now, I guess! We sat on the floor and read some books, mostly identifying the objects and colors that we all know the words for. Peter's caregivers have been wonderful, really facilitating our interactions with him. It will be a very different story once we're home.
More good news on the home front – Peter is confirmed for child care in Nashville, so one more hurdle overcome.
2 comments:
This is so exciting and encouraging! Cary and I are thinking and praying for you all!
Elaine and I are so excited for you. Peter sounds like a wonderful little boy. We can't wait to meet him.
In the meantime, we are going to try to get Max out this weekend for a little fun.
Take care, and be safe.
Dave & Elaine
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