Gotcha Day!!!

October 26, 2006
Last night only Holly and Josh went to the Drama Theatre with us! It was so much fun… we only understood one word… “idiot-a” haha! Anyways it was cool and if you ever get the chance to go, do it!!!

So we had our morning visit with our baby… The Locurto family came in so Natasha had to go and meet with them, our visit was uneventful, really… compared to the rest of the day!

So we went to court and they approved us and waived the 15 day waiting period, and then plan is to be home WEDNESDAY!!!!! Then we went to the records office to get his birth certificate with OUR names on it! Finally we could go get him!!! He was quite confused, he wanted his bottle, and then we had to wait and wait and wait… there were only 3 caregivers there, so there was no party! The inspector was there so we were able to give her a gift though. We really liked her anyways!

So we took our baby bambino out of that place!!! He cried and cried, on the way home, we had him in that super thick snowsuit. Then he fell to sleep. But he woke up when we took off his snowsuit… He was totally wet from sweating in that crazy thing!!! Poor kid! We are going to see if we can avoid that tomorrow! He would not eat anything tonight, and we gave him a bottle, and he fell to sleep on Jerry, so he has been sleeping since about 7pm, it is now about 9:30. He is so precious in his bed sleeping! Of course we got pictures of his first real cry with us and his first “nap” All to be posted later from Almaty! Because we have got to pack! We leave at 8-ish in the morning!!!

Jerry went to pick up the final painting that we ordered, It is a Landscape painting of the Oral river. It is beautiful, and has a couple boats pulled up to a sand bar, I asked him to paint the Kazakhstan flag on the front of the boat. I can hardly wait for you all to see it!! I will soon post pictures of our paintings so you can see for yourselves! The painting was still wet, the guy was still painting when Jerry showed up to pick it up!! So we are going to put it next to the heater tonight to see if we can dry it enough to take it with us. We will see in the morning. Otherwise I think we can get one of the other families to bring it back to the US for us. Ahhh!!

Luba, our 19 year old sponsor daughter came over to see us before we left. She is so sweet, we can’t really talk but we try, she doesn’t speak very much English. She brought us a gift! Two nice frosted glass coffee mugs! When she had to leave, I think she was crying a little! I felt so glad that she likes us that much!!! We did not see Alia again, hopefully she likes us, but she is so shy that we can’t really tell! Hopefully they both will write us lots of stuff in their next letters!


So all of our friends were busy tonight, so we didn’t get to see anyone before we leave tomorrow… I am starting to get a complex…we are going to miss them all!
Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!