The adoption process...

In the morning, our attorney picked us up and we all drove to the city inspector's office. Today, Dec. 1, 2008, a new law came in effect in regards to adoption and some paperwork has to be done differently. So one of the new regulations now is that the inspector needs to go with the family to the orphanage during their initial meeting and write an agreement to adoption upon talking with the kids and adoptive parents. So we came into the inspectors office and she was very nice. She was asking us why we wanted to adopt older kids and was talking a lot to our little daughter and giving her candy. We explained to her that we are already living at the orphanage and have constant contact with the boys, but since the new regulation, she still needed to go with us. So I called the boys on their cell phone and told them to go back to the orphanage from school, and that we will arrive there shortly... With the inspector, we all came to the orphanage to find that the boys were already waiting for us. We all set down and she officially asked the boys if they want to be adopted by us and how they know us. They ofcourse both said that they want to be adopted and then she wrote everything down on a piece of paper. After that, our attorney, inspector and orphanage director, and I all met in the office and had coffee while completing paperwork and placing a lot of stamps on it. The boys didnt go back to school and just stayed with us and then we all had lunch together.
Our attorney told us that she has all the paperwork she needs and will get the last piece from the court where the parents are revoked were revoked of their parental rights. She will turn all of this paperwork to SDA on Wednesday for them to write an approval for this adoption. This process takes 5 days. So our attorney will pick up the paperwork from SDA on Monday next week and will take it all to court to schedule a court date for us.
Tomorrow we are going to be spending time with my unkle and aunt that live in Kiev. They also adopted a 4 year old boy couple of months ago. We are looking forward to meeting him.
We really miss our kids at home. Our little daughter always talks about her older sisters and how much she loves them. She plays with the kids here at the orphanage that are her age. She was playing games with them and building puzzles.
Two of the girls from the orphanage, invited me to go to music school with them today. They had vocal lessons, so I went and enjoyed them singing. They are preparing for a concert later in December. (Yes, Lisa, Nastya was singing too. She has a great voice.)