Monday, March 30, 2009
Happy Birthday Daniel!
Today is Daniel's first birthday. While we're sad that we're not there with him to celebrate it, we're excited to know that in 8 short day's we'll see him again for the first time since January.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Quick Update
T minus 10 days till we see Daniel again (4/7/2009)
T minus 12 days till court (4/9/2009)
T minus 25 days till "Gotcha day" (4/22/2009)
T minus 32 days till we bring him home for good (4/29/2009)
Preparations continue for our court trip. I'm putting the finishing touches on my presentation for the judge, plus we've compile a photo album of the types of photos that judges like seeing (family, home, pictures of us with Daniel, etc). We should have our Visas back by Tuesday (3/31/2009). Katie will be on Spring Break the week we're gone for the court trip so that helps.
T minus 12 days till court (4/9/2009)
T minus 25 days till "Gotcha day" (4/22/2009)
T minus 32 days till we bring him home for good (4/29/2009)
Preparations continue for our court trip. I'm putting the finishing touches on my presentation for the judge, plus we've compile a photo album of the types of photos that judges like seeing (family, home, pictures of us with Daniel, etc). We should have our Visas back by Tuesday (3/31/2009). Katie will be on Spring Break the week we're gone for the court trip so that helps.
Friday, March 20, 2009
T- 32 days to gotcha day
Based upon input from CSS, looks like our gotcha day will be April 22nd.
We've got trip 2 planned out now and we're putting together details for trip 3. Looks like we won't be back in the US until about April 29th. Since our gotcha date is on a Tuesday and now there's an extra day of paperwork following the adoption decree being issued, that puts us going over a weekend and of course none of the government offices are open on the weekend. So it pushes us out until the 29th for coming home.
We've got trip 2 planned out now and we're putting together details for trip 3. Looks like we won't be back in the US until about April 29th. Since our gotcha date is on a Tuesday and now there's an extra day of paperwork following the adoption decree being issued, that puts us going over a weekend and of course none of the government offices are open on the weekend. So it pushes us out until the 29th for coming home.
Monday, March 16, 2009
We have our court date!
April 9th!!!
I've already got our air reservations done. We're departing April 6th, arriving on the 7th, visit Daniel on the 7th and 8th, court on the 9th, depart Russia on the 10th.
That puts our 'gotcha day' on or about April 22th!!!
More details to follow
I've already got our air reservations done. We're departing April 6th, arriving on the 7th, visit Daniel on the 7th and 8th, court on the 9th, depart Russia on the 10th.
That puts our 'gotcha day' on or about April 22th!!!
More details to follow
Friday, March 13, 2009
Another update...
Well, we continue to wait for word from Russia on a court date. However we have had some contact with the Motherland...
The Thompson family are in Russia for their court appearance, which went well by the way. Stacye and Andy were at the orphanage to see their little girl they are adopting, Alina, and were able to visit with Daniel for about 10 minutes. They report that he's in great shape, growing up and now has two teeth coming in. They were able to send us some pictures of him. He was in his typical good spirits, smiling and laughing. They reported to us that they gave the staff another disposable camera to take pictures of Daniel with, that we'll get when we officially adopt him and pick him up. Plus they are writing in Daniel's journal, chronically Daniel's life while we're away from him.
BTW, regarding photos...some have asked why we haven't posted any pictures of Daniel on the blog. Well, technically he's not ours, he's a ward of the Russian government. Until he's 'ours' we can't publically post any pictures of him. If we posted pictures and somehow the Russian government found out...well, they could make life difficult on us...
We're continuing to purchase items to donate to the orphanage. This time of year is a great time to find bargains on winter items.
So, for now we wait.
Regards,
Greg, Mary and Katie
The Thompson family are in Russia for their court appearance, which went well by the way. Stacye and Andy were at the orphanage to see their little girl they are adopting, Alina, and were able to visit with Daniel for about 10 minutes. They report that he's in great shape, growing up and now has two teeth coming in. They were able to send us some pictures of him. He was in his typical good spirits, smiling and laughing. They reported to us that they gave the staff another disposable camera to take pictures of Daniel with, that we'll get when we officially adopt him and pick him up. Plus they are writing in Daniel's journal, chronically Daniel's life while we're away from him.
BTW, regarding photos...some have asked why we haven't posted any pictures of Daniel on the blog. Well, technically he's not ours, he's a ward of the Russian government. Until he's 'ours' we can't publically post any pictures of him. If we posted pictures and somehow the Russian government found out...well, they could make life difficult on us...
We're continuing to purchase items to donate to the orphanage. This time of year is a great time to find bargains on winter items.
So, for now we wait.
Regards,
Greg, Mary and Katie
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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