Gotcha Day

It's official... Vacya is now with us forever. His "Gotcha Day" is October 7, 2008. We weren't able to get him on Monday after all because the director was not at the orphanage that afternoon, so we had to wait until Tuesday morning. It was really hard to tell Vacya that he had to spend one more night at the orphanage after we'd told him that he would not have to. We were still able to go out to the small village to change Vacya's birth certificate on Tuesday though, so it didn't really change our plans too much.

So, Vacya's name is now Vacya James Wager. Joe and I had decided a long time ago that Vacya's middle name would be James, after my dad. I've also been thinking lately that it's pretty appropriate because the book of James talks a lot about trials and perserverance, and we've definately had our share of trials over that past 6 months.

Today we had to go to the tax police to get Vacya's name changed for his tax code, which is similar to our social security numbers in the US. Then we applied for his passport. The ladies at the passport office told us to check back next Wednesday, so hopefully the passport will be ready by then. That would allow us to take a train up to Kiev Wednesday night, get the medical exam completed and the US visa applied for, and hopefully fly home that weekend. Please pray that the passport will be ready on Wednesday so we can get home!