So, better late than never with good news. We just heard from our coordinator today that the waiting period officially ended without any protests. If all goes according to plan, we'll be welcoming Alina and Kostin home on August 4th. Their rooms are all ready for them, though at the moment they are filled with all of our stuff while our master bedroom renovation comes to a close. The race is on to get ourselves moved out of there before the kids have to move in. Otherwise we might be sleeping in the basement for a few nights (at least it's cool down there). We're also in the process of having the yard fenced in, which we thought would be a good idea with 2 children with whom we cannot yet fully communicate.We haven't posted since leaving the Almaty airport, so we should bring everyone up to date. First of all, Seth really wanted to get a decent picture of the mountains that loom over Almaty. He didn't, really, but this is the best he got.
Once we got home, we headed off the next morning to go get Asher at his Grammy's. We should say that we almost didn't recognize him as he had grown up so much! He was very clingy the first couple weeks we were back, and it has taken him some time to learn to trust us again. We were afraid that after a month away he might not recognize us, but this scenario was even more heart breaking. We think he'll be pretty excited to have his brother and sister here. He's at that phase when he is very intrigued by older children.
Asher did have a very good time with Grammy up on the farm in Brookfield, Massachusetts. The day we picked him up, he took us on a tour of the farm. He can't wait to show Alina and Kostin the horses, donkeys, goats, and roosters! You can see he learned a great deal in this video clip.
Anyway, we're just very excited to share today's good news. Pretty soon we'll be posting pictures of the 5 of us together, so stay tuned....
