The 15 day wait

That's the stage we're in now. We're going to visit Kristina on a Mon/Wed/Fri schedule until she's released to our custody on Wednesday, October 11th.

Yesterday was Wednesday and we had a great visit with Kristina. Lots of hugs, kisses, tickling and chasing about the playroom. She looked pretty cute in a jean skirt/vest and a light blue sweater. As we were leaving we ran into the orphanage director (Yuri) and Kristina told him that her papa and mama were going to take her home to America soon.

Igor snapped a picture of the 3 of us for a PhotoStory video I'm finishing. Hope to figure out how to post a link to it on this blog site within the next couple of days. If you see a link that says "Kristina Ballerina Video" then click on it and it just might play.

I put a similar video together for Julia in 2004 when we adopted her and it meant the world to her. She would watch it over and over again. You could see how the pictures and music put the whole puzzle together for her and let her understand why we were there, what it meant and where it was going.