Dear Roman and Maxim:
Today is August 3rd and that means that Papa and I have been home from Russia and our first meeting with you for 4 months!!! It's hard to believe how much has been going on since we left Yekaterinburgh on April 3rd and came back to New York. The most exciting thing about today is that OUR JUDGE HAS RETURNED FROM VACATION!!! Papa and I are hoping he comes back well rested and in a great mood and we hear something soon about our paperwork for a court day ... this is the next step in bringing you home!!!! We spoke with Vica last week and she said that one of three things may happen ... 1) the judge asks for updated paperwork ... 2) he asks for updated paperwork and assigns a court date ... or 3) he assigns a court date .... we'd really like to hear number 3 but we are prepared for another round of paperwork ... we've gotten really good at it so we will do it as quickly as possible and hopefully we will soon be on our way back to Russia to see your cutie patootie faces and bring you home!!
Your room is just about done ... we hung pictures on the walls this weekend and both Papa and I go into your room every so often and think about you being there one day soon! Lucy and Tyson are also going in and out of your room so they are getting ready for you too! Grammy finished your new curtains and brought them this weekend and hung them up for us... they look awesome!!!
Max ... your friend Nicholas from your first baby home came home with his parents in July and he is doing well ... he doesn't live to far away so once you are here we will get together with him so you can play!
Roman ... your cousins Billy and Nikolas are very excited for you to arrive and can't wait to meet you ... they ask about you all the time!!! I hope you like to play soccer because they do and I know they will want to teach you!!!
Each day is bringing us closer to having you home ... we hope "the" phone call to return to Russia is not to far away ... we miss you so much!!
Love, Mama and Papa
The journey only looks long from the beginning. When we look back up the path, the reality is, we can be happy we started or we can wish we had.
About Us
- Christine and Stephen
- After 5 1/2 years of trying to become a family ... our dream came true on November 11, 2009 when Roman and Maxim became our sons forever!
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Adoption Time Line
- 4/9/10 - 3rd Post Placement Visit with Lori
- 3/19/10 - Maxim turns 2
- 2/12/10 - 2nd Post Placement Visit with Lori
- 1/3/10 - Roman turns 3
- 11/30/09 - 1st Post Placement Visit with Lori
- 11/19/09 - Roman and Max go to the Pediatrican
- 11/14/09 - Leave Moscow for the USA
- 11/11/09 - GOTCHA DAY
- 10/30/09 - COURT DATE
- 10/25/09 - Leave for Russia
- 9/24/09 - Received our court date - 10/29/2009
- 9/8/09 - WHFC has received the updated documents and they are now on the way to Russia! We have met the deadline!!!
- 9/4/09 - Mailed updated documents to WHFC - will receive them on 9/8/09
- 8/25/09 - Received the list of updated documents for the judge - he wants them in Russia by 9?18/09
- 8/5/2009 - Russian judge has received paperwork and begins to review
- 5/23/09 - Paperwork on it's way to WHFC and then Russia!
- 5/22/09 - Round 1 court paperwork complete!
- 4/7/09 - Received the next round of paperwork from Vica
- 4/3/09 - Leave Russia and our boys to return home to the states
- 4/2/09 - 2nd visit with Roman
- 4/1/09 - 2nd visit with Max
- 3/31/09 - Our first with Roman
- 3/30/09 - Our first visit with Maxim
- 3/28/09 - We leave for our 1st trip to Russia
- 3/20/09 - We have travel dates - We leave for Russia on 3/28
- 3/5/09 - We got the referral call for 2 boys
- 01/22/09 - Russia Orientation Class at WHFC
- 10/30/08 - Dossier is complete and being sent to Russia
- 10/24/08 - Dossier sent to WHFC
- 10/4/08 - CIS Approval FINALLY arrives in the mail
- 8/27/08 - Received the final documents for dossier - just waiting for immigration fingerprints
- 8/26/08 - Go into immagration to get our I600A fingerprints for the Russian adoption
- 7/31/08 - homestudy is FINALIZED. We are officially on the books to be parents.
- 6/24/08 - FBI Fingerprints are returned and done
- 6/24/08 - Pre adoption class --- FINALLY!
- 5/27/08 - Received Russian dossier requirements - this is going to take some time!
- 5/22/08 - Jennifer comes to visit our home - final step in the homestudy!!!
- 5/16/08 - Individual appointments with Jennifer
- 5/2/08 - Our first meeting with our social worker Jennifer
- 4/26/08 - Finger prints are done and on their way to Albany for clearance
- 4/18/2008 - Application B arrived in the mail
- 4/17/08 - We've been assigned our social worker - Jennifer!
- 4/11/08 - Application A in the mail and on the way back to Wide Horizon
- 4/9/08 Received Application A in the mail
- 4/7/08 - Mailed Registration Application to Wide Horizon for Children
- 3/29/08 - Attended Adoption Information Meeting at Wide Horizon for Children
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3 comments:
Hoping you get the call soon!
It was around 4 months when we got the call to update paperwork. Ugh! About 20 documents or so. Hopefully they will call soon and you'll see the boys soon. I can't wait ot meet them and Colby is looking forward ot meeting new friends.
Melissa
Christine,
I will keep my fingers crossed for #3.Can't wait to see a pic of there room.
Sharon
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