Monday, April 6, 2009

Monday, was a busy day as we began the paperwork process with our translator. We had to go the notary's office to do the petition to adopt, then to the Inspector of the orphanage to do more documents. Unfortunately, the petition was missing a sentence, so the translator had to have the notary redo!

We went to the orphanage, Olia was on the playground and she saw the car as we arrived and headed in our direction. She was very happy to see us. We took her to the children's hospital for an ultrasound of her kidneys to verify that everything was okay and to talk to the doctors. She has not had any problems since she was 1 year old, which was only a typical kidney infection. But as precaution due to her small kidneys, they have done an ultrasound every 6 months to verify no problems. The checkup was okay. She was a trooper through the whole process.

We will continue the paperwork this week and our translator hopes we can have a court date by Monday or Wednesday of next week and we will head home immediately after the court date. We have to wait 10 days before we can take her home, so we will go home and return to bring her home. Hopefully, all will continue to go well this week. Keep you all posted as much as possible.