We Have a Court Date

We finally have a court date!!!  December 16 (Thursday) is the magic day, and we can hardly wait.  We were visiting our girl at the orphanage when we got the news, and she could tell by our expressions that something great had just happened.  In that moment, I totally blanked on the Russian word for “court”, but the minute I said Thursday, she put it all together.  We were all ecstatic, and it was such a joy to watch her get excited and give us a great big hug.  She wants this as much as we do!!!

We had a wonderful visit at the orphanage yesterday afternoon.  We were able to spend our 4 hours there in our girl’s room, which was a lot nicer (and warmer) than the “dining” room where we have been meeting.  She had set up a table in the middle of the room so that we could do puzzles and games (it wasn't there the day before).  And she has all the things we've made displayed around the room (puzzles, coloring book pages, crafts).  Her latest addition was a series of coloring book pages we completed the day before taped on her door.  It is very cute!  She also asked if she could invite her friends to play games with us after we did our puzzle, so we played several hands of Uno and some games of Trouble with her and two of her friends.  It was wonderful to watch her interact with them.  Much giggling was involved!