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27 giugno We are home. Sorry it took so longWe are all home safe and sound. Monday after we got Liam there was no internet acess at the cafe, due to the hail storm that had happen earlier in the day. So we were not able to post. Well Liam slept two hours on the bus and that was it. We even gave him benadryl. Adrian was a trooper. Estella slept with me and she slept the whole way. When we got to the aiport, they said we needed to go to the office in Keiv. Which made me mad since they had told me I needed to go to the aiport office. So a needless stop at the aiport. Well we went to the doctor's office for Liam's medical exam. Well the docor was tow hours late and we were starting to get nervous that we were going to miss our appointment at the embassy. Needless to say we made it to the embassy fifteen minutes late and we were still able to have our appointment. We were not able to get his visa until the next day though. That was fine. Liam finally slpet when we got back to our apartment. Adrian and I were so tired and I was feeling sick from lack of sleep, but I had to go to areosvits office and then to the grocery store to get some food for the kids. When I got back to the apartment Adrian would not answer the door. I was locked out and he was asleep inside. Adrian sleeps like a rock. We had to go to the office to get the spare key to open the door. when we got the door open, Adrian and the kiddos were all asleep. Well a mini break down on my part and then we made it through the night. On Wed I was picked up with another family and headed off to the embassy to get Liam's visa. After that I headed back to the apartment and Adrian and I were happy for the first time in a month. We were done. We would be able to enjoy the day with our new son and our daughter. We had a great day and even a little rain could not dampen our spirits. We bought some gifts for people at home and took Liam for his first meal at McDonalds. He loves french fries. Well fast forward. We had a good flight home. Liam cried some, but the flight attendants were really great and they played with him and gave him stuff to eat. Estella was great on the plane. When we got to New York, we were so happy to be home. But when we got out of customs, there was no one there to pick us up. Needless to say my parents who are always late, were late. We had a good ride home. estella slept the whole way and Liam did not sleep a wink. He was so amazed b everything. We got home at midnight. Estella who had slept for the last five hours, was wide awake. So mommy was up with her. Liam and Adrian went to bed. Friday was our first day home and we went out to breakfast and did a littel shopping. Liam did great, but by the end of the day he was a little overhwlemed by all of the people, who had come to visit. So we had some down time and then we was of to bed. Since we have gotten home, eery day has gotten better and better. Liam is doing great. He is lering more english everyday and talking more and more. He is so happy and he loves it here. We were just cuddeling a minute ago. Our family has been great and he is getting used to being in a big family. He loves his grammys and all of his aunts. He cannot get enough of playing outside. We had a little party for him and he got presents and he loved all of his new toys. We are very happy. We want to thank all of our friends and family who have been so suuportive of our adoption and who have now been so excepting of our new son. It has been great. We will get up the blog with updates on Liam. Thanks again.
The Attwoods
Adrian, Sarah, Estella, and Liam 18 giugno Today is the DayWell yesterday and still today I cannot check my mac account for my email. I do not know why. So if you have emialed me, sorry I have not responded. If you have emailed me anything important and need a response please email me at ssattwood@msn.com. It would probably be best to email me there for the rest of the trip. I think mac is working on the website or something. Who knows. Well today we are not sure when we will get Liam. Angelina will not be here until 5pm. Which is a bummer. We might be able to take him before then. She is suppose to make phone calls this morning and then let us know. Anyway we are all set with a new outfit for Liam and yes the fourth pair of shoes fit. So we are good there. We have all our gifts for the people at the orphanage. We are hoping to get hiim this morning, but I doubt it. We will probably have to wait. That is the way it has been going. Well my emotions are all over the map. I am excited and nervous. I am doubting my parenting skills. Will we be able to handle two? Adrian is so nervous and he hardly slept last night. I just tried not to think about it, since we might not get a lot of sleep tonight on the bus with two kids. WHOA! I am also a little sad for Estella and Liam as both of their worlds are going to be turned upside down. It will be hard at first, but it the end everything will work out. Estella is a little grouchy this morning. I know she knows somthing big is going to happen. Adrian said this morning this is the third biggest day of our life. First was our wedding, then the birth of Estella and now the adoption of our son. It is very exciting. Well we better get going. We are going to go to the supermarket to get flowers and chocolates for the staff and the orphanage director. Wish us luck with the end of our journey and we will be home in four days. Thank you all for you support. We have needed it. 16 giugno SaturdayWell this is our last weekend in Ukraine. We are getting really excited to get back to Keiv and then to get home. As well as bring Liam home with us. We did not get to see him today, because he is sick, but they said that we can go in the morning tomorrow. I have to apologize for the last blog entry. Estella was sitting on my lap and crying about wanting to go home, but only with me. I was trying to get the blog entry done and Adrian was like lets go. My mom said there was a lot of mistakes. I tried to go back and edit it, but it would not let me. So it is what it is. It was a fitting end to our day. Today we walked down to the market. It is about a mile from our apartment. The way down is down hill and the way back is all up hill. We did walk back as we are continueing our Ukrainian diet. I think we have both lost weight. We will see what people think when we get back, but none of my clothes fit anymore. So I am pretty happy about that. The exercise has been good for us, espeically me. I never get a chance to at home. But we are hoping this will jump start our exercise routine and we will keep it up at home. Well back to the market. Today at the market, we bought Liam yet another pair of shoes. This makes four. I am pretty sure these will fit. We got him some pjs and sunglasses for him, Estella, and Adrian. We had a good time and it killed some time. I know no one at home is going to read this today since you are all enjoying alumni weekend. Going to the parade, golfing and then out tongiht for the alumni party. I was feeling pretty bad about not being there and then Lindsay emailed me and she is not there either. So I do not feel as bad. Well I hope everyone has a good time and next weekend Adrian and I will have our own alumni weekend. See you all so soon. We can't wait.
15 giugno Terrible DayWe have a had a hard day. Today when we wen tto tthe orphanage they stopped us at the door and said that Liam was sick and he had a fever. They needed us to buy him some medicine and that we could not see him till Sunday. We got him the medicine. Which was like six things. I am was wondering what all of these are for. When ESteela is sick we give her a little tylenol and call it a day. He need something for his throat, his noce, cream for his skin, vitams, and an anitbotic. I doubt he is going to take all of it. What are we to do. WE feel so helpless and like we have no rights. It is really annoying and is hard ofr my controlling self. Well Angleina has assured us that nothing will affect us takig him on Monday. He might just be a little under the weather. Estella was crying that should cvould not see him and she is really ready to go home. She has been out of sorts the last couple of days and it has been hard. We tried to take her to the park today. She would not take a nap ealier and was bouncing off the walls inthe apartment. So we thought lets take her to the park. she feel asleep in the taxi and then slept for an hour at the park. Then she played in the snadbox for five minutes and went on the merry go round. That was it. Adrain and i cannot win. As is she is cryng at me right now. So I have to go. hopefully we will make it till the end of our Ukranian adventure. 14 giugno Pictures at LastI see that my mom and Erin probably with the help of my cousin chelsea have pictures up on the blog. These pictures our from our first days I am going to try today to put mroe pictures on as I think i might have figures it out. I will give it a try. It is hard because the computer downloads the files and since I can't read russian I am not sure where they downlaod it too. For those of you traveling here, do not forget your flash drive like I did. I should have just bought on here, but we are low on funds and we are trying to make till the end with what we have. We will be home a week from today and we are very excited. We just keep thinking about what we are going to do as a new family. Adrian says we are going to STub to get breakfast first thing friday morning and of course it will be Friday ngith pizza chef. Though we might have to order in. We will see. It all depends on our Little guy. We will also need to get back on US time. Today we will do the usual. Visit Liam, eat, sleep, watch Estella's movies with her. That is one thing we forgot. We were so worried about Estella having her movies and stuff that we did not bring any for us. Well things have been complicated by another adoption at our orphange. They inist that we be inthe same room and that is really hard. I feel bad for the women. She is a single women from Isreal. She is in the first few days of bonding and it is hard with us there. I have asked to use the other room and they said no and she asked to go outside and they did. Btu then something must have happened becasaue they were back inside and the littel girl threw a huge tantrum. I do not know what I would have done if Liam threw a big tantrum like that. I am sure there will be tanrtums to come. Well Adrian and I have enjoyed spending quality one on one time with Estella but we are also craving a little time alone and maybe go out to dinner or something like that. Maybe when we get back and get the kids to bed early we could go out for dinner. We will see. Parenting will be our first pirority. Well I am going to try and put pictures on the blog. Talk to you soon.
Sarah 13 giugno Business As UsualNot much new going on here. There is women who is adopting at the orphange so we have been having to share the room with her and her new daughter. It makes it a little hectic and I think hard to bond. ESpecailly for her since they are just starting to get to know each other. We only have five days left in the room not counting today and monday we probably won't go to visit him until we pick him up. YEAH!! We are getting really excited about that. Yesterday we got Liam passport photos. The orphanage got them done for us. They are so cute. Better than Estella, since she was crying in hers. Typical for Estella. Well I told my sister how to ptu the pictures on the blog yesterday and she was suppose to do it, but it looks like she has not done that yet. Maybe today. I know people are really wanting to see him. He is so cute. Well not much else going on. Today we will do our visits, drop the photos off at the lawyers office so she can start working on his passport and I think I will make an appointment to get another pedi before I go home. That is about it. We need groceries and we will try to take Estella to the park in the afternoon. Yesterday we baught our bus tickets to go to Keiv. Everytime we do somthing like that it makes me so happy as I feel we are moving one step cloer to being a family and getting home. I will try to post later about today.
Sarah 11 giugno Ups and DownsWell today had its ups and downs. Yesterday when i checked to see if there were open seats on the flights we might be taking home there were seats. Today there was only business class. Well needless to say after a break down and Victoria going to the airport in Keiv for us we are all set to come home on Thursday the 21st. Later than we had hoped, but we are still happy to have a flight and an offical date. I should have just booked the tickets over the weekend. Well you live and you learn. We were waiting for an offical word on when we could leave. Liam got out of the hospital today and that was great. We went for a wlk this morning at the hopsital and then I spoke with the doctor. She is very nice. She said he could go home and that we should go to the orphanage in the afternnon to visit him. YEAH! The docotr also asked us why we are adopting and if we could have more biological children. We told her that we wanted to give a little boy a loving home with a mom and dad. She was a little suprised. I guess it is hard for people over here to understand why we are doing what we are doing. This afternoon we all visited Liam at the prphange and he was so happy. I think he was happy to be back there and happy to see us. We had a fun visit and Adrian was tired after being climbed on by both Liam and Estella.
Well Adrian, Estella, and I have been together for three weeks. In the nearly foruteen years we have been together I do not think we have spent this much time together striaght. We have not killed each other yet and I am happy to report not one fight. Well now that I have said that watch out. Things are going well. We have a lot to do between now and the time we leave so that should keep us busy and change our routine. Which will be a nice change.
So here is the schedule for our return to the States. Monday the 18th pick up court decree and get Liam's ukrainian passport. Then go to the orphanage and pick Liam up. YEAH! Then we are going to take Liam to the park we went to with Estella. After that back to our apartment to finish packing and get ready for the great over night bus ride to Keiv. We will go to the airport first when we get to Keiv and finalize our flights and pay for the changes. Then weill then have Liam's medical exam, followed by an interview with the Embassy to get his visa. This is all on Tuesday the 19th. Then we will get a place to stay for Tuesday and Wed. night. Wed we will spend the day in Keiv, probably go to the park and walk around. Pick up Liams visa if we are unable to get it on Tuesday. Thursday we will need to be at the aiport at 10 and then we will head to New York. I am sure our whole family will be waiting for us in New york. We can't wait. I hope this week blows by. Last week seemed too. I can't beleive my mom has been gone a whole week. Thanks for the comment mom. We miss you and we have been playing a lot of rummy. Adrian is not as good as you.
Today we bought another outfit for Liam as we are going to have him with us for three full days before we get home. We have purchased two pairs of shoes and both of them have been too big. So I am sure one pair will fit Trev when we get home. So we are looking for another pair of shoes. The clothes and shoes are very exspensive here, but very cute. There are a lot of families were we are. In the evening when we go for a walk, we look like the rest of the city, taking our child for a walk. It is nice to see allof the families here and realize that there are a few things that are the same.
Well I better get going. The count down begins. 10 days to go. See you all soon. 10 giugno Day five I thinkWell it is Sunday here. Estella is making it hard for my to type as she is insisting that she sit on my lap. All of us went to visit Liam today. Estella wanted to see him and ther are not any sick kids in his ward. They are only there for cuts and stuff. In the morning we all played out side and we had a good time. Estella ran around with a couple of other girls. No one looks like they should be in the hopsital. Liam was in a good mood both times we went. In the afternoon he was made becasue we could not stay outside. He threw a little fit, but then he seemed to get over it. Him and Estella were sitting together and running after Daddy together and it is so cute. Liam gave me the boggest hug yet this afternoon when we left. It was so cute. It was nice to get since I feel like we are gong backwards since he has been in the hospital. We are always with someone who speaks russian now, so he is always defereing to them. When it was just the four of us he would have to pay attention to us and we would all fingure it out. Well he should be out of the hopstial by the middle of the week and hopefuly we will pick him up for good on Friday or Saturday. We will see. We will have to talk to our lawyer tomorrow and she how things are going. There are no flights on Wed so we are hopingt o get out of here on Tuesday the 19th. That would be great. We will see. Well I have to get going.
09 giugno Good ThingsYesterday Adrian and I bought some juice, a beer, three banans, and a lolipop, and a yogurt for $3.00 . Now that is a deal. That is one of the good things about ukraine. The food and beer is really cheap here. Bere is like a dollar and Adrian says it is the size of two beers at home. Bottled water cost more than beer. Intresting? Well we visited Liam in the hopstial today. He is doing great. Other than being bored out of his mind. We could not talk to the doctor today, but we hope tomorrow to get an actual day of release. Today we asked our dirver to take us to a park where Estella could play. He took us to a park that had a merry go round and other rides, as well as a sand box and swings. Estella loved it and it was a nice change for us. We are goingt o go back again, before we leave. I can't beleive we have been gone three weeks, some days it feels like we have been gone forever and other days not so much. But on Tuesday we will be down to our last week and we are so excited. Todays travels to the park where a little bitter sweet as we wish we could have brought Liam with us. It is frustrating that we cannot do things with him, but that will be over soon and we will be able to do whatever we want. It will be great. Liam has only one bandage on his face now and it looks like he is healing good. Adrian said he got another shot of antibotics while he was there. We tried to get him to eat some yogurt today but he did not like it. I am feeling a little homesick today. I miss everyone so much. This trip has been great and this country is very nice. The people hav ebeen so nice. Our driver is very nice and he is always smilling. We now have a way of communicating. He works everyday. He is always picking us up no matter what time. Well I better get going. Adrian and Estella are waiting up at the apartment. Time for dinner.
Sarah 08 giugno Day threeBack to the Hostpital again. The docotr who speaks enlgish was not there. Great. Liam was in good sprits and back to his old self plus some bandages on his face. He ran around and the worker from the orphange must think that we feed him so much. As soon as I got there he was over to my bag looking for food. he was so hungry. The worker they sent this morning was very nice. I wish that we could communicate. It makes it so hard. But we did are best and she was a good sport. Better than yesterdays, who I think thought I was a pain. Oh well he is my son and we are trying to do our best to take care of him. The hopsital is like an alternative universe. They told us today that he will need to be there for a week. I am like a week, for something that we would have done in a doctors office and then go home. Today his bandage feel off and there is like nothing underneath. The said he cannot go back to the orphange and be around other kids. It is so bizzare. Adrian is going this afternoon. That will be fun for Liam as he seems to really like papa. Estella and I are going to hang together and take a nap. There is not much to do and Adrian and I hate being split up. Well looks like we will finish our ten day wait visiting him at the hopsital. But you never know things change everyday here. Well Adrian is waiting from me back at the apartment. I need to let him know that Schilling pitched a one hitter and ended the four game losing streak the red sox were on. He is going tobe pyshced. We miss the sox and can't wait to get home and watch them and introduce Liam to them. If anyone talks to my mom or sister ask them why they have not put pictures on the blog yet. I want to see them too. Thanks again for all of the support. We will be home in 12 days. YEAH.
Sarah 07 giugno Day twoWEll today was intresting. Liam was supose to have his surgery at 9:30. I was going to get there at 10:30. The driver was late and then when I got there he had not gone in yet. He had been given somthing to make him fall asleep. This whole expereince is so strange. The hospital is old and he is in a room with about five beds in it. There is only two other children in the room right now. A erpson from the orphangage in there all day. Soe are nice and other not so nice. The came to get Liam for his surguery and the motioned for me to follow. I was liek am I goingto be in the room. what is going on. We went down the hall and they took him in the room. The told me to sit out side. People kept looking at me and then soemone would say "mama". I guess they were wondering who this women was for this orphan. WEll it was quick and the docto, who speaks english thank god, assured me that he would not have a scar. I told her I have been nervous all night, she assured me the the infection was not serious. When he came out I went back to the room. He was so out of it with bandages all over his face. I had to go because Angelina had the driver come to pick me up. I went back at one. When he saw me he was happy nad he reached out for me. That made me really happy. I gave him some toys and he settled down. he was supose to stay laying down. It was hard because I cannot communicate with anyone. The doctor was not around and there was some confusion about when he could eat again. Finally he could eat and he was so happy. Then it was time for Adrian and I to switch. He was sad when I left, but happy for the food. Adrian said he was really happy when he got there and smilled. Adrian sat with him for a little while, but then needed to head back home. Adrian said he cried when he left. That was sad. Tomrrow we will do the same thing over again. Hopefully tomorrow we will know when he is going back to the orphanage. That will be better, since Estella will be able to visit him there. I can only describe the hopstial as something you would see in a movie from the early sixties. I am guessing. A lot of kids in one room and nurses wearing old school nursing uniforms. This whole expereince is so sureal. More to come tomorrow. Thanks for the support. 06 giugno Day one what a dayWell day one of the ten day wait started off strange and ended worse. When we went to the orphange this morning we were told that Liam was at the hospital. We thought it was another check up for his eye. They said we could come back in the afternoon. When we got back in the afternoon we found out that he was still in the hopsital and that he was going to need surgery to drain and infected bug bite he has on his face. We ere able to go visit him in the hosptial and luckliy the docotr speaks soem english. He looked completely overwhelmed when we got there and was not himself. The doctor said we could give him some snacks. After he ate and drank he was feel much better and started acting like himself again. EStella was a little freaked out about the whole expereince and was very concered for his brother and his booboo. Angleina is not here and we are feeling a little overwhlemed ourselves. I think Adrian and I will take turns visiting him at the hjopsital as we are not sure that we want Estella to go there. Who knows what germs are lingerng about. There is a lot to be sorted out and we needed to buy some medicine that we would need to help his stomach not get upset. Tomorrow he will have surgery at 9:30 and they said it will tkae 15 to 20 minutes. So I am going to go there at 10:30 and sit with him for a little while, then meet ADrian for Lunch and switch. We will see how things go. I wish we were at home and dealing with this. on a good note our new Friends Jessica nad Paul had there second aoppointment today and got a referal for two healthy boys. We are so happy for them and wish them the best. Well I have to get going.
Sarah 05 giugno CourtWell we have had an eventful day. The judge was not sure about what she was going to do about the 10 day wait and then she decided that she does not want to be the first judge to waive it. So we will be here for ten more days. It looks like we should be home on June 20th. Nto so bad, but not in time for alumni weekend. Bummer. Well court went well and they asked us a lot of questions. The really wanted to know why since we could have biological children would we want to adopt. We just told them that everyone deserves a mom and a dad and we wanted to provide a loving home for a little boy. The representative for the orphange said they were happy that we are adopting him and the KLiam seems Happy too and he is happier every day. The officaly changed his name to Liam Victor Attwood. So were are one big step closer to bringing him home. We are thankful to have court behind us and have a time line for leaving. We were hoping that now that court was over that they would let us take Liam out to lunch and out of the orphange during the day. But of course they said no. So it is ten more days of the room. We will probably go insane, but Estella and Liam will probably conitue to have a good time. So ten more days of ground hog day and then we will be back in Keiv gettig his visa and then getting on a plane and heading home. Thanks every one for your continued support and my mom has picutres if anyone wants to see our little guy. My sister is hoping to get some on the website soon. Oh one nice little story before I go. Estella said to me, "Mommy do you love my brother?" I said, "YEs" and she said " I love my brother too!" So cute. They are gettign along pretty good. She hit him today adn he pinched her back, which then Estella cried as if he had cut her arm off. OH what is to come.
04 giugno UpdateWe are definatley having court tomorrow but in Ukraine Fashion we do not know what time yet. I guess we will know in the morning. Our facilitator will arrive from Keiv by train at 5am tomorrow morning. Poor thing so much traveling. We are so nervous for tomorrow. WE hope everything goes smoothly. We will see. Some people said they have not be able to post comments onthe blog. Feel free to email at sarahattwood@mac.com. Well hopfully tomorrow when we post we will have the best news ever, but ewither way we will have a timeline of when we will be home and we can start planning. Thanks everyone for your support. Hoping to see you all soon.
Sarah, Adrian, and Estella AirportFirst i want to say thank you for the comments and emails. It is great to hear from people. We love it. WEll Estella could not get on the flight so she is still here with us. It is ok, but I know a lot of people at home that really wanted her home. Hopefully we will be out of here soon. Estella and I might have to come back earlier than Adrian and Liam anyways as it looks like it will be neary impossible to get all four of us on the same flight and we are going to need to upgrade to business class just to get home. oh well As long as well all get home and soon. Tomorrow is court and we are so nervous. We are hoping for an act of god. We would like to be home by the end of the week. So everybody needs to be thinking about us and sending good thoughts and prayers. heopfully with a little luck the judge will waive the ten day wait and we will be home on Friday or Saturday. that would be great. If not at least by the end of tomorrow we will have a plan for getting home and a time line. That will be great. Well I want to say hi to my cousin Lindsay in Paris. I hope you are having a great time. I would love to see Paris someday. Also to my mom. We miss you already and I want to thank you so much for all of your help while you were here. I wish you were still here. It will be hard without you, but we will get through it. I am glad you got home ok. Also remeber to go to Walmart print out all of the pictures and get a CD so your and Erin can post come pictures on the blog. I know everyone is dying to see some photos. Talk to you all later.
Sarah 02 giugno Two good visitsWe had tow really good visits today with Liam. this morning my mom and Estella came with us. he ate two banans and sat on my moms lap. She is over the moon. Adrian and I took him and Stl for a walk. They got along great again and Stellie was a good sharer of mommy. She did not however wnt to share her sippy cup. This afternoon it was just Ade and I. Him and Adrian moved soem stuff around the room and he was very serious about it. It was so cute. He is calling us mama and dada. It is so cute. He wet his pants today and he was very shocked. WE had to bring him back down stairs to get changed. They were really good about it. then we went out side (that is tow times for today) and he was so excited. It was brief as it was about to rain and our time was up.
Tomorrow will be a long day. I hope we can get Estella on the flgiht with my mom, but then I going to miss her so much, so I do not know how I feel about it. I have not been away from her from more than two nights. If I knew we were going to be home soon, I would not be so worried. We will see. I am going to miss my mom. She has been a big help. It will be hard if we have Estella here and my mom is gone. but she is needed at work. Well we have to get ready for our big bus trip. I have a feeling we won't be sleeping much tonight. Uhg. Where have all the comments gone. I need them it keeps us going.
Sarah SaturdayToday is Saturday and there is not much going on. It is funny here, it is busier during the week and not much going on on the weekends. We spoke with Angleina last night. They still have not got the paper in their hands yet that we need for court. Very frustrating. She said the paper is completted but they need the stamp of the director on it. The applied to another court where we are to get our ten day wait waived. She says we will know more about that on Monday and that we should definatly at the latest have court on Tuesday. So there is light at the end of the tunnel. At least by the middle of next week we should know when we will be home. If the ten day wait is waived we could be home on the 12, if not then we will probably be home on the 19th. We will see. Either way it is earlier than we expected. Tongith we leave on an over night bus back to Keiv. We will get there at 5:30 in the mroning. Then we will go to the airport and see if we can ge Estella on the flight with my mom or see if we can get them on a different day. We will see what happens. Right now it looks like she will probably be with us, until we leave. If we get the ten day wait waived that will not be that big of a deal. I know people are really missing her at home and would like to see her, but we will have to see. All of the flgihts are booked. It is so annoying. Who is going to the US. Well yesterday I did not hjave the energy to post. It is hard not knowing anything. Those of you who know me, know that I am a control freak and not knowing what is going on day to day and not having a plan is killing me! So I think I will feel better after court next week.
I thought I would note some other difference between here and there. Here it is perfectly accpetable to wear anything in mesh or shear with under pants optional. I have been so suprised by that. I mean I always wear underwear and I never wear anything see through. I also think it has been hotter than normal and they are just not used to it and so they are trying to stay cool.
Yesterday at the orphange was national childrens day. They put on a little show, which we saw some of and it was really cute. They had a little bounce house, a kiddie pool and a tunnel set up outside and Estella and Liam got to play together on them. They had so much fun and Liam got soaked. Luckily the orphange workers thought that this was funny and they were not mad. On our second visit with him, Adrian and I were feeling a little down as we wish we knew what was going on. Playing with him helped and we had a good visit with him and he is starting to let me hold him for longer periods of time. Most of the time he wants to go go go. Boys. Well I better get going. We will porbably not be able to post much tomorrow since we will be in transit. We will let you know whow things turn out with Estella. Keep your fingers crossed that we can get her on flight with my mom.
31 maggio Things that are differentI thought it might be fun to write about the differences between here and home. In Ukraine you can drink deer on the streets and we have seen teenagers drinking openly on the streets. Adrian is very fond of this and thinks that we should start this back home. We could have a beer tent in the square in the middle of town. In Ukraine you do not need to stop for people crossing the streets, instead you can beep at them and try to run them over. Very intresting and dangerous. Some other differences are that there are internet cafes on every corner and you can get a meal for four people for ten dollars. What a steal.
Well we havea had an ok day so far. I am trying to get EStella booked on my moms flight so that she can go home with her on Sunday. It looks like our only option is to go to the airport on Sunday and see if we can get her on the flight. It is crazy. We will see. No one will give me answer on the phone or put her on stand by. This mornings visit with Liam was fun. We brought two new toys for him and Estella to play with. He followed Estella around and played. He had to leave early as he had a doctors appointment today. He looked so small on the 1970s van that he was in heading out to the doctor. Estella was not as jealous today and only said my mommy once when he called me mama. I think she is starting to get used to things. We have not heard back from Angelina on the paperwork form Keiv yet. I hope it comes today. We want to have court tomorrow. We will see. I would just like to know when we are going to be able to go home. After court we will know.
this is our second visit to the internet cafe. It is right acrossed the street and when we have nothing better to do we go there and read about the red sox and what is going on back there. Looks like we are in for some hot weather ahead. Great I can't wait.
We bought some clothes today form Liam and some new shoes. He cannot take anything form the orphanage, so these will be what he wears home. I think we got taken at the clothing store. There were no prices on the clothes and it turned out to be quite exspensive, but they are cute and they are all we are going to buy here. My mom is excited to shop once she gets home.
Well I better get going.
Sarah True ColorsWell yesterday when we went to visit Liam he was a little grouchy. We did not have Angelina (Our facilitator and not Angelina Jolie lol!) with us so he could not understand a work we are saying to him. So He was just doing whatever he pleased. It was really funny and gave us a glimpse at what we will be dealing with when we get home. He Just looks at us and then keeps doing what he is doiing even though we are saying no. Well Adrian has been keeping up with the REd Sox on redsox.com. Looks like they are doing great. We are psyched. Youk is on a tear. It is great. We wish were could watch the games. Not much for TV here. My mom and ADrian watche dpimp your ride in Ukrainian the other day. They said it was really funny. At least in Keive we had MTv in English, CNN, and the BBC. Now we have nothing. WEll Ia mtrying to change Estella's flight without any luck. So we will see hwo it goes. Talk to you soon.
Sarah 30 maggio hello from the ukraineWe are without Angleina today as she is in Keiv doing her best to get the paper we need for court. Hopefully she will have a fast turn around. We will see. Things are going pretty well, but i think we are all starting to get on each others nerves. From lack of good sleep and deprivation from TV we are all pretty bored. Yesterday we had the joy of doing our second load of lundry in the tub. It is great. We have one more to go tongiht and then we will almost everything washed. Adrian, mom, and I have played more Uno rummy, and yatzee then we every wanted to. Adrian has been watching the playoffs for the NBA so that has not been so bad for him. Sometimes it is the same game twice and it is all in Ukrainian. Intresting. Well I need to answer a few questions that people have asked. Laim is in a "baby house". There is about 100 or so children in the orphanage. The or[hange is a combination baby house and hospital for sick children. he has been there since he was 3 months old and he was abandon at birth. His month died when he was a year old, but she never visited him before her death. They said that she was homeless and it looks like she dies of exposure. Very sad. They do nto know who his father is. Liam is in a group with about 15 other children, right now he is one of the youngest in his group. The orpahange is very nice, clean and the people who work there are very nice. We have enjoyed visiting him there.
oh, I have a funny story. So we have found two resturants that have english menus. One is a pizza place and it makes great pizza. Adrian and I walked down there yesterday to get some take out. The owner, we think came out from the back and wanted Adrian to do shots of Vodka with him. They did three shots total. We did not know what to think. He was very nice. He wanted to do more than three and Adrian had to say no. Adrian is not much of a hard alcohol drinker. It was a funny situation, but very nice. Well I have to get going. We will keep you updated.
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