First day of bonding done

What a day we went to the babyhouse at 10:00am. We had to wait about 15:oo min. when we got there because Ivan was in music class, we could hear them all singing(wish we knew what they were singing) Then we went into a big room and a little boy came running up to me with a great big hug saying Mama and did the same to Paul and you can guess it was Ivan(they call him Vanna) He loved the gifts,but soon after he opened them and realized he was along with us he started to cry but not for long, Mom knows, we took out gold fish and he came and sat on my lap. We have a photo album for him and that was a big hit he loved looking at the pictures and wouldn't put it down. At the end of our time with him he grabbed both our hands on his own and brought us to his room where his groupa was, they were getting ready for lunch, he gave us both hugs and kisses before we left, I love his hugs already. So we go agian tomorrow.

As for Paul and I we went to the market today bought more food and a coffee press can't believe we communicated what we wanted. As for the food we are still trying to find things we like, dairy is tricky not liking much of it. Paul just laughs as I make him try everything first. All in all we are doing good, I'm a little home sick, feel so out of place. But every day gets a little easier. are ya wanting to see pictures ok here is Ivan with us today!!

Love ya all, 8:25 pm Tuesday

met him at last

Yes we waited all day!!!! finally at 4:30 for interview, after that we went to the baby house, for another interview, and to meet Ivan. He was sitting on the doctors lap, looking at us not to sure of it all, Paul says he was checking me out. He did smile at us but didn't want to sit by us. We have to go back tomorrow(Tues.) at 10:00am. We will bring toys to warm him up. Pray all goes well at the visit, and he will warm up to us.
What did we do while we waited? We went to the store and the Market all by ourselves. Hopefully we like what we bought. Everyone was quite friendly, trying to understand our Russian. It was an adventure, that will be an outing we do every day to pass time. There is not much to do here when you can't read anything. So please send us messages. Talk to ya tomorrow.
Paul and Vicki

We are here

yes we have finally arrived!!!Wow that was a long flight!!!!I thought we would never get here.But we are here our apartment is nice, our translater Irina is also very nice.We already went to the store to buy some food.....nothing tastes like our food...I'm already struggling with that(Paul says just eat it!!!)Tomarrow we meet with some people that will ask us some questions and then off to the baby house to meet our SON!!!(it's right by our apartment) and let the bonding process begin.Thanks for all your prayers it got us through a tough part now prayers for the meeting and bonding of our son to go well.and for us and the girls as we miss each other alot!!!
Love Vicki

in one week!!!

Yes, we will be leaving in one week, our plane is scheduled to leave at 4:13pm on June 26 out of Grand Rapids. We are getting ready, preparing the girls, ourselves, and my parents, who are going to be staying with the girls while we are gone. Please pray for all of us, the girls as they are starting to get a little anxious,and mom and dad. For Grandparents as they hold the fort for us here, that the Lord to go ahead of us and prepare for us the road we will be going down,for little Ivan as he gets ready to meet us. Thank you all for your words of encouragements, prayers we are so very blessed to be surround by a wonderful support group. Keep on reading the blog, I will try to update it everyday while we are there.
God bless all of you.
Vicki

We have a travel date!!!

We are now scheduled to travel on Friday June 26. We are so excited we feel really ready to go and meet our son. I have not told everyone but we do have a little one that is going to be presented to us his name is Ivan and he will be 4 on July 4. The girls are ready for us to go no tears from them this time, only smiles, they really want to have their little brother home with them. So pray that we will have no more bumps in the road and that we will leave as planned. Thanks for all your prayers.
Vicki