A tiny Update

Well, we got our medical evals done last week by our primary doctor- long story short, we were able to just have them done here, and not have medicals done in Russia. Apparantly in the Moscow region, the judge isn't requiring that as of now. Well, on our medical report, there are 8 doctors listed, one of which is the "General Practioner". The rest range from dermatologist to pulmonologist. We were told to ask our doctor if he could initial down the list of all 8 doctors and just put "good eval" next to each one. He wasn't comfortable with that (and we don't blame him), so he just put those little quotation marks all the way down the list, and signed at the bottom. We had the document notarized and apostilled late last week, and sent it up to Grand Rapids, MI , our agency's headquarters over the weekend. They then scanned it, and e-mailed it to their counterparts over in Moscow that are the liason between our agency and the courts. From their best estimate, they think the judge WILL approve that document as is. We just have to pray now, that when the document physically gets there, in the judges hands, he or she WILL approve it.

Please pray with us for that to happen! If the judge approves all of the paperwork (that document was the ONLY one we had to do after returning home from our trip...we had the others done over the summer when I had more time), then, THEY CAN GIVE US A COURT DATE!!! This is the part we are waiting for. As much as I want this date to be ASAP, my heart hurts for those who have waited since early Spring for their date. You see, when that lady sent her adopted child back to Russia on a one-way ticket flight, she changed the world for SO many of us who are in the middle of a Russian adoption. As of last week, there are talks that the new treaty between our countries will be signed by January, so we are also praying for that.

We will keep you posted and let you know as soon as we get that court date! Until then, we are going to keep preparing Landon's room, and the rest of our house for our little man's arrival! We have plastered our fridge with pictures of him, our desktop background, and my desk at school! Everytime I see his face, it just lightens my mood, and I am able to put life's problems into perspective.