15 weeks

We're at 15 weeks in Ukraine now and we've been here during 6 different months... March, April, May, June, July & August.  We heard from the secretary at our court yesterday that the prosecutor has turned in her application for an appeal.  She turned it into the head court, so the secretary couldn't give us any specific information about what the complaint was yet.  She told Andrei to call back on Monday and she will let us know more.  Hopefully by Tuesday the appeals court judge will look at it and just throw it out.  

We went to visit Vacya today.  He seemed like he was doing ok.  He was telling us about these boys that come to the camp from nearby villages and beat up the kids at the camp.  They offer the younger kids candy to get them to come up to them, then beat them up.  Vacya said that he hides if he sees anybody that he doesn't recognize as another camper and doesn't walk around the camp unless there are a lot of other kids around.  We just can't wait to get him out of there.  He had some small cuts on his face this time, but I think they were just from mosquito bites that he scratched too much.  There were some other kids hanging around us and I think they were asking us to adopt them too.  Vacya said that he would not let anybody take us away from him :)  He's so cute... but it is sad to see all of those other kids who just want a family.

Thanks for all of the prayers for my health; my stomach has been feeling much better lately.  Please continue to pray that the appeals court will just throw out the appeal so that we can get Vacya and come home.