One More Day

Video Links: http://home.comcast.net/~themcgills/Buzzy.wmv http://home.comcast.net/~themcgills/JackAllie.wmv We had another great day with Jack. Tomorrow he's ours. Sophia, one of the representatives at CHI went over the court proceedings with us today. She started our discussions with "Unfortunately". Thankfully, the only unfortunate thing was that she wouldn't be translating for us because of a prior commitment. Note to CHI, Do not start conversations with Adoptive parents in Russia with "Unfortunately". We recovered and were able to listen. She says that we have gotten a good judge (whatever that means). There is a 10 day waiting period that we will request to have waived to make the adoption effective immediately. Sophia says that it is waived 99.9% of the time. We'll be doing out best to stay out of that .01%. After court, we'll go to get the adoption decree, Jack's new birth certificate and then finally Jack. We should have him around 5-6pm Moscow time or 8-9am Nashville time. We may be later blogging and won't be able to contact anyone until we get back to the hotel. If you haven't heard from us, assume good news, it means we're at the orphanage picking Jack up... After our visit today, Anastasia took us to the market to pick up some food for Jack. He's not on any formula anymore and is not really liking taking a bottle for juice. So we bought him a sippy cup, but Vonda will still be trying the bottle. As for the food we purchased, I'm seriously doubting that we'll be giving him any of it. One item is Kefur (sour milk yogurt that you have to mix sugar in), and another is curds??. We'll see, but if we can't stand to smell it open, I doubt we'll be putting it in his mouth Allie is still having a big time. (bigger than we're used to, and we're ready for it to settle down). By the way, we just got a call that our court time has been moved to 12:00 so we'll be able to get Jack a little earlier. Tonight, we dined on velveeta shells and cheese and really enjoyed it. It's been raining and about 50 degrees for the last couple of days so we didn't want to walk anywhere. So far we've eaten at Patio Pizza on Sunday, Rostick's (Russian KFC) last night, and dined in tonite. Gotta say the velveeta shells and cheese was as good as the Rostick's. Well I'll close the BLOG for now so I can finish my budgets for work. I've got a conference call scheduled with them for tomorrow night, so I should probably be finished with them beforehand... Love you all and we'll try to let you know as soon as possible that we've got him... I'll be putting a couple of links to video up later, that should help the blog to load faster. Steve, Vonda, and Allie PS We still haven't heard from Michael - Where's all the accents?