Travel Dates!

Found out today that we need to be in Russia on March 18th. They want us there that whole week so we can meet Alexander and see if he’s the baby for us. Now hopefully we can use those frequent flyer miles!!!

REFERRAL!

We accepted the referral of a little boy named Alexander.

He is about 7.5 months old. He was born in June. When he turns 8 months (any day now) we can find out when we can go and meet him.

He lives in Kotlas, Russia in the “baby home.” Kotlas is in far northwestern Russia, kinda over by Finland. (If you look at a globe, it’s at about the 70 degree North latitude line, near a city called Arkhangel’sk.) Sounds very COLD to me!! Erik is very excited about being somewhere THAT cold. He says you can hear tree branches explode if it gets cold enough….I’m starting to think we should’ve looked into adopting from Tahiti! 🙂

Anyway, we should find out soon when we can go and meet him. We had a doctor in Ann Arbor look at his medical reports and everything looks positive. The first trip should last about a week.

We hear that this orphange is a good one and it is nice to see that the Russian women holding him looks like she enjoys her job. We are hopeful that he is in a good place.

Just Checking to See if This Works!

So, we are thinking of starting a blog to record the “Russian Adventure” on which we are about to embark. Never had a blog before, nor do we have any idea how this will work!! So I am now going to add a picture….I ask you to please excuse whatever I pick ahead of time! It will probably be something cheesy like the cats or us! We are still learning…