Kids' Bedroom Ready

Angie, Pat, and I have spent the last week or so getting the kids' bedroom painted, carpets cleaned, furniture assembled, clothes put away, and several other little details in preparation for their arrival.

It's neat to go into that room and imagine them jumping on their beds, playing with their toys, or whatever else will entertain their little minds.

May can't come soon enough.

Steve

Timing update

We submitted our final packet of paperwork to AAI to be sent to Russia to petition the court for a court date.

I asked Kris Burow (our new Adoption Agent, since Alla resigned) when she thought our court date might be.  She said, optimistically, in April.  Dimitri (Minister of Education) has to gather paperwork on the children from the children's home and put it together with our information, and then it is reviewed for a court date.

Also, a new regulation came out with that changed the waiting period from 10-14 days to 30 days.  It's unfortunate that this happened right at the tail end of our process, but it is what it is.

• http://adoption.state.gov/country_information/country_specific_alerts_notices.php?alert_notice_type=notices&alert_notice_file=russia_3

So, if we have our court date sometime in April (optimistically), we can bring them home sometime in May.

Thanks for all your support.

Update

Hello all,
well not a whole lot to tell you, we are waiting to get our court date.  FBI has to send us a report saying we have no arrest records then we can get the date.  We are missing them greatly 4 hours was not enough time to spend with them.

We have had 2 showers so far and we have 1 more that Angie's co-workers are having for her...We are overwhelmed with all the love and gifts we have received from everyone...We thank everyone greatly...

We will update more as soon as we know anything....