Here are some photos of and around our hotel:
Di in front of our hotel
A view down our street
The world's ugliest dog
A New Little Brother
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Breakthrough Today and Big Day Tomorrow
We were a little late getting to the orphanage today because we had to pick up some documents (among the hundreds of other documents it seems like we have collected) from the social worker in town. Our little guy was already outside with his group (9 in all, I thought there were more before). When we opened the door to the outside, he ran for us:) That made us very happy. We played on the equipment, looked at books, chased each other, the usual. Then we went to meet the American missionary for lunch at her apartment. She had made a delicious Mexican dish for us. She was very nice. She's lived here for 10 years and oversees the medical clinic in town that was started by the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). She had the pastor and his wife from the PCA church over for dessert (brownies and heart shaped frosted sugar cookies-yum!) and it was great to hear about the history of their church and of this area. The church is celebrating it's 15th anniversary this weekend so we plan to go. We had a big breakthough at our visit with our little guy this afternoon! He said his first word in English and it was "Nicole". We cheered and clapped and gave him some M&M's. He's said "mama" and "papa" every time we look at our family photo album, but he had never said our kids names or any other things that we had named in English. Please pray for us tomorrow as we travel about an hour to this little guy's hometown to meet with a committee of city officials there and ask to adopt him. If that goes smoothly, then we can set up a court date and Paul can return home!
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Yeah, that is one ugly dog! That's so great that your "little man" said "Nicole!" She must be so thrilled. Glad you've met somebody there, the missionary who seems so gracious. Will say a prayer for your mtg. tomorrow. You must all be so excited to almost be done . . .
ReplyDeleteThank you for keeping us updated Diana. We are so excited for you guys and look forward to meeting the little guy
ReplyDeleteAsha just walked by wanting to know what I was reading. I just filled her in on the details....she asked, so is Nicole taking care of the boys? She seems very responsible. :)
Continuing to pray for all the details.
Love,
Urvi
It is so wonderful to read your daily updates. It feels as though I am experiencing part of this adventure with you. I hope the visit to his home town goes well. He sounds like a cute little boy.
ReplyDeleteGreat to hear from you today...I wil follow your blog. If you need anything over here next door in Kherson or just want to chat, call me at the number posted on my blog. It is MTC.
ReplyDeleteSorry, the ugliest dog awards to to Kherson :-) Ask me about my frozen dead cat story one day.
Glad to hear the adoption is working out for you guys...saw that you returned here from an earlier SDA appointment last year.
Felix
Thanks for the comment on my blog :) We were in Odessa not too long ago and loved it so much we are trying to go back this year!
ReplyDeleteWe will be praying for your visit with the officials and the bonding and language with your little guy.
Blessings