Jet lag

Ryan and I have really done nothing but sleep we are experiencing jet lag like no other and I hate it. I want to go explore and see what Kiev has to hold but I have been sleeping very weird hours so we decided to set our alarms and try to get on somewhat of a normal schedule, so we will see. guess I just wanted everyone to know that we are still waiting and alive just tired. it means so much to us all the wonderful support we have received. thank you, than you, thank you. and to those families readying our blog waiting to travel, we support you as well and are sooo very excited for you. let us know if you have any questions we will answer them all!!!! we love everyone and just hope this waiting is over soon!!!

What a day

Today we met out son... how amazing is it to say that we met the little man that will be blessing us in years to come. it might have only been a picture but we still got to see him put a face to our sweet Bear!! We woke up this morning at 3 AM we where just excited, nervous, anxious, well every feeling one could have we had it. our appointment was at 9AM so needless to say we really didn't get much sleep. We spent the next 4 hour or at least I did thinking and thinking. At 8:30 Valentin arrived to take us to the SDA (I think it is safe to say I love him he is amazing he just brings this sense of comfort) we waited for sometime outside before we waited inside and today it was cold, but no big deal. the SDA is nothing like I imagined but it was perfect the walls were blue and the building was quite old. Valentin went with us into the psychologist office, she was beautiful and kind she asked us a few things about our family and wanted to know why we wanted to adopt special needs, this is very rare most adoptive parent want healthy kids, but what is hard for me is how we as american define healthy, anyway, after a short talk she got right to it and said that this young boy she had been trying very hard to find a family for him. His birthday is December 14 (the day we come home, thought that was funny, Happy Birthday welcome home) he is sooooo cute he will be 2 or 3 we can't remember there was so much happening at once, he has a missing left arm below the elbow and is crossed eyed but he is healthy. they called the orphanage and he is very active participate in all the activities, he is not talking much but is a very happy boy. Our minds were made up at this point but we decided to see a few more all boys the other one we fell in love with was a sweet little boy that had TB and because of that he had holes in his brain and he had heart problems. This was by far the hardest decision that we have ever made, my heart was breaking and I was crying Valentin was so supportive and the Psychologist said that our minds were made up the moment we saw the first boy but I was feeling so bad, you know I want to take them all. Valentin told us there are so many orphans we can not take them all but we can change this little boys life. so we picked the little boy with the missing arm, his name is Ogey he had those cut deep set eyes and a fat little face. I feel happy but at the same time the other little boy with the TB will forever be in my heart and in my prayers. it is a strange mixture of emotions we are excited to finally put a face to our sweet Bear but I am so sad that we had to say no to the other boy. We feel very confident in our decision and are very excited to meet him he is in the East so as soon as we get the ok and the quarantine has lifted we will be traveling to go meet Ogey or Bear as we all know him by :) so now we wait. We were able to get some groceries and we got a cell phone so we can communicate with Valentin we are starting to feel more comfortable here we still miss home but we feel better a new sense of renewal we are ready to meet Bear in person. please pray that the quarantine is lifted soon and we see our Ogey. love you all!!!!!

Finally time to Breath

here we are in the Frankfurt Airport not the best time ever. they are in the middle of construction so it took us 2 hours to find the USO no complaints we at least got to rest a bit.

So now we are all set at least we hope, we went on an adventure to find groceries and an adaptor for the 220 outlet. not as easy as we thought but an adventure. I hate that there is such a langues difference I wish I could comunicate better!!! we ate borscht for dinner pretty good seeing as we were not sure what we were ordring but isn't that half the fun? we are in Kiev right across the street from independence square, there is a really nice underground mall here and they have the cutest boots in the world I might just have to buy a pair before we leave.

here is the view from our balcony, I would have taken it during the day but we slept for 13 hours when we got here, we slept the whole day ;) oh well we were really tired, and soon we will be getting less sleep with a new bugger on the way!! to be honest it is really nice here you can tell that there is tons of history. I think the thing we are struggling with the most is that we really miss home and miss our family.  right before we went to sleep Ryan said "I want to go home" you could tell in his voice that this was hard and it is we have such a huge support system and not having it near us is really hard. I want so bad to see my mommy!! but we are strong soon it will be better when meet our Bear on Monday at 9. please keeps us in your thoughts and prayers we need it. we love you all sooooooo very much and really can't wait to come home. I'll write more tomorrow.

 

Real quick

we are here but we are very low on battery on the computer so we will need to write more tomorrow just wanted to let everyone know that we are here and tired!!! write more tomorrow. love you all very very much!!

In Germany Waiting

So far so good.  We made it safely to Germany and now are just waiting to get on our flight to Kiev. It was a good flight but long and with no real sleep for either of us.  So we are off to wait our remaining 7 hours hopefully sleeping on the floor or something. We will update as soon as we can.

On our way!

Here we go we are sitting in the USO in DIA, it is so unreally two years and now we are going.  our flight leaves in about an 1/2 hour, I just wanted to take the time to let you know that we love you all and we feel so loved! we will update the blog when we get into Frankfurt. We love you all!!!!

SWINE FLU???????

So we are ready to leave in two days and what do we wake to, an email letting us know that the Orphanages have been put on quarantine for the next three weeks, really are you kidding? if you have fallowed our journey from the beginning  you know that this has not been an easy journey, but a journey none the less. We have decided to go forward and continue plans as they are, wait it out and see. We HAVE TO remind ourselves that this is not about us, this is not about what we are feeling, but this is about Bear our sweet little man waiting for mommy and daddy to come get him and bring him home, so swine flu be damned we are going to get our little man. please as you keep us in your prayer and thought say one for all the other families going through the same heart ache and stress that we are. we are all in this together!!!