This is us ... waiting to meet Maxim. We got to spend our first day going to the Ministry of Social Work to hear the actual referral for the 2 boys. We also heard a little about their older brother Ivan, he's 4 and with a foster family but they did ask if he became available at any time if we would take him as well... the answer was of course YES!!!
The attorney of the baby home, Helen, brought Maxim in and handed him to ME!!! I couldn't belive it... for the first time I was holding MY child... he just sort of looked at me ... like who are you but he was fine with it. We got him all to ourselves for about an hour. Svetlana and Helen were nearby on the couch talking and every so often Maxim would look over and then Helen left and Max was fine. Stephen and I took turns playing with him.... this little boy is a man of few words but that's okay ... we know another little boy that used to be like that and NOW he talks our ear off!
After about 20 minutes or so.... Max's personality just bloomed, he started giggling and chewing on the catepillar toy we brought him, he's teething. We also brought a beach ball so after awhile this became a big hit!!! We got some great pictures and some video of Max laughing .. what a giggle he has!!!! I promise to post the pictures once we get home and we have accepted the referral. They will probably only be up a short time so keep checking!
After spending time with Max we then met with the docotor and got his history, both personal (why he's in the orphanage) and his medical since birth! Since his mother's parental rights were terminated we learned alot! Max is a very health one year old ... if you need proof you just have to look at his chubby thighs and his fred flinstone feet.... I think he's going to have big feet!!!! He is very healthy -we didn't see any red flags medically so going with our gut ... he's ours ... we will still send Dr. Skurkovich the medical information to review just to follow up!
We will see Roman tomorrow.... under different circumstances, Roman has the chicken pox so he's in the hosptial! We don't know how much we will get to interact with him and tomorrow may be the only day we get to see him since he's in the hospital but we will also get his medical information tomorrow and can have Dr.S do that review and then we should be set!
Not bad for our 1st full day in Russia!
Christine & Steve
