Thursday, April 8 Bonding Day #14 – our last required day to bond before we are permitted to apply for pre-court (which will be tomorrow) and our court date (praying it will be next Thursday). Learned from our travel agent yesterday that our airline ONLY leaves Astana on Friday and Monday mornings so we are banking on being completely finished with court, ect. next Thursday and we will drive to Astana late that same night (for our 4:50AM departure from Astana). Hopefully the road won’t be blocked on our way out.
10AM – able to go outside with Kirill who is happy carrying around a stick and walking on the driveway which circles the baby house. We put him on the wooden circular thing that goes round and round (the other one is still frozen over) and he wasn’t thrilled with getting dizzy. Kirill had more fun having John get on the ride and making his papa spin. Didn’t spend so much time on swings, ect. The “sand” around all the play equipment is a dark brown mush which needs to see a few more sunny and warmer days before anyone tries to walk on it. (Actually caught some shots on TV from the Masters being played back home. So strange to see colors coming out of the earth and trees in Augusta. It still looks like the dead of winter here.
We were excited to be able to present Svettslanna , Kirill’s doctor with a gift. We weren’t sure if she would understand that this gift was especially for her (and not to be shared like the other gifts we gave her on Monday). I had written “dl’ya tee” (for you) on my hand before we left home for the baby house and was thrilled that she understood that this was for her and she received my hug graciously as well. She is the one worker here that we feel connected with. Maybe she will be the representative from the baby house that joins us in court.
Will head to the City Net to post these 2 blogs before going back to see Kirill at 4PM. (We will continue our twice a day visits, minus Sunday, until we go to court). Tonight we are eating at a Korean Kitchen!! Again, we covet your prayers and having you partner with us in our journey.
10AM – able to go outside with Kirill who is happy carrying around a stick and walking on the driveway which circles the baby house. We put him on the wooden circular thing that goes round and round (the other one is still frozen over) and he wasn’t thrilled with getting dizzy. Kirill had more fun having John get on the ride and making his papa spin. Didn’t spend so much time on swings, ect. The “sand” around all the play equipment is a dark brown mush which needs to see a few more sunny and warmer days before anyone tries to walk on it. (Actually caught some shots on TV from the Masters being played back home. So strange to see colors coming out of the earth and trees in Augusta. It still looks like the dead of winter here.
We were excited to be able to present Svettslanna , Kirill’s doctor with a gift. We weren’t sure if she would understand that this gift was especially for her (and not to be shared like the other gifts we gave her on Monday). I had written “dl’ya tee” (for you) on my hand before we left home for the baby house and was thrilled that she understood that this was for her and she received my hug graciously as well. She is the one worker here that we feel connected with. Maybe she will be the representative from the baby house that joins us in court.
Will head to the City Net to post these 2 blogs before going back to see Kirill at 4PM. (We will continue our twice a day visits, minus Sunday, until we go to court). Tonight we are eating at a Korean Kitchen!! Again, we covet your prayers and having you partner with us in our journey.
Kirby, thanks so much for doing this blog and letting us go on this journey with you. I look forward to every morning checking in on you guys. Praying often and so glad to see things going so good. Nancy
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