Yesterday was the best!!! Scott turned 40 and for his special day he received the Gift of seeing our new son for the first time in 10mths. God is Good!!! Thursday evening we jumped a train in Kiev that was headed for Kivy Rog with our translator "Alena". It wasn't bad just a little warm and watching Scott trying to sleep on the little bench/bed was funny. We arrived at 6:15am where our driver "Eager" was waiting to pick us up and take us to our new home. The apartment is clean and comfortable but driving to where it is located makes me very thankful for everything we have in America. The every day things like acceptable sidewalks, drinkable water, safe streets to drive on and "yes" traffic laws and seat belts.
After droping our luggage at the apartment located on the other side of the three steel doors we went to obtain written approval to visit our son. The Inspector is the one who gives the approval and has 10days to make the decision whether we can proceed with the adoption. First she went thru our documents and asked for our passports and asked to see pictures of our other children. Lucky I had a few in my wallet and one with all the kids including Lincoln (Sash). After sobber faces and long periods of silence and people coming in checking our passports and going out... Finally, she gave her approval and ok'd our visit. Little did we know they send a worker from their office to observe our visit "with Z child" as they say. As if we were not nervous enough.
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Off we went to the orphanage to meet the director who was very nice. She offered us coffee, Tea, and cookies. We were to excited to think about afternoon tea. After checking Z documents and passports she sent a worker to bring him to the office for our visit. At this point I had sweaty palms and a lump in my throat. Alot of thoughts racing through our minds ....how will he react to us... will he be shy... do we go to him or let him come to us. Next we heard foot steps and around the corner he came with the Biggest Smile you could imagine. Before you knew it he was in our arms. There were tears of joy and laughter thru relief as we knew it was just like the day he left. After we got our composure I looked up to see the director, social worker, and our translator all wiping their tears. It was a great reunion that exceeded our expectation by far. We were then invited to stay and visit with him for the rest of the day. We were welcome to stay in the visiting room or go out and play in the yard. There are alot of trees and very old playground toys that don't look very safe or sturdy. No swings just metal monkey bars and a few things like that . Behind there is a basket ball court that must belong to the neighborhood. We played there with Lincoln and two other little boys from his group. They were very cute and shy but the more we played ball and laughed the more they warmed up to us. At one point we were playing with a few other kids to turn around and find the two little boys, six year old Kola and 7 year old Roma hanging about 12ft in the air over the top of the basketball hoop trying to get the ball unstuck between the rim and the backboard.. It was not their first time doing this. It was sad to see how they just figure it out for themselves but nice to see them working together to achieve their goal. And they did!!!
We had a wonderful day and wouldn't trade it for anything. A few more paperwork items to take care of and a stop or two and the day had ended. The wonderful process continues and we are one more step closer to bringing Lincoln home!
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