Good Grief!

I got to talk to my brother yesterday.  He always makes me smile :)  He asked if we'd be home in 2 weeks (in time for the State summer games for Special Olympics where he'll be playing team handball).  I told him that, no, it is talking longer than we thought and now we probably won't be home until sometime in June.  He responded, "Oh, good grief!"  I agree!!!  At the end of our conversation he said, "Ok,  see you in  June... or maybe May 30."  He's too cute.

We talked to Andrei and he told us  that we do still have our May 19th court date, he's just been trying to get the judge to see us earlier.  So that should be the latest it will be if the judge can't fit us in sometime during this next week.  Even if we do get to have Vacya with us, we will still probably have to wait the 10 days before everything is official and we can go to get his new birth certificate.  We are still going to ask to have the waiting period waived, though.

The last 2 days at the orphanage have been better with the caregivers.  They haven't been particularly friendly, but at least we haven't been yelled at in Russian again.   Vacya's been doing fine.  He has an unbelievable resiliency and just seems to bounce back from whatever is thrown at him.  He always has that big smile on his face :)

Thanks for all of your thoughts and prayers.  Today is exactly six weeks from when we left the states and our original plane tickets had a return date for today.  We had really hoped we'd be home today, in time for Mother's Day tomorrow.  We want to wish our moms and grandmas a Happy Mother's Day now in case we aren't able to get through to you tomorrow.