Mikolav

As always in international adoption there is uncertainty and changing plans. We are not waiting for our appointment we already had it and have left Kiev on an amazing journey. Again early in the morning, 4am we drove to Mikaylov in southern Ukraine. It took us 5 hours of bumpy and foggy conditions to get there by 10am. Our goal was 11am to the orphanage because it is Friday and the orphanage director has a shortened day. We did arrive in time and got to hear of the medical condition and to our wonderful surprise there was not a lot to tell. Some delay, of course expected and definitely without parents. Abandoned at birth by the birth mother and she did not have any documentation to say who she was. Totally orphaned from birth. Now for the incredible part they are twins. I know there are going to be more than one of you that will say, "I told you so". We can not believe it ourselves. We are in the deciding phase and there are still uncertainties that can occur but we really like these boys. We will visit every day and see if a bond grows. If all of their medical exams check out as we expect we will move into the paperwork phase. We do not want to get you all too attached yet so we will put up some pictures as soom as we do make our final decision. Oh, by the way, they are 16 months old and very cute. It seems almost impossible to find such young boys in Ukraine that are available for us. They just came off the domestic adoption list and one hour later we were having a meeting and deciding if we wanted to go see them. We have a lot of good work to do and if all goes well we will be here for about 20 days. Then back to Kiev for a little while. This region has some challenges as well so hopefully Olga will work her magic again. We apologize for the delay but this is the first chance we had to get to internet access. I think we will be able to have access now at a local hotel.
Thank you for hanging in there with us, we are doing perfectly well.