Vacya's Homecoming

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Vacya and I finally arrived home late Tuesday night last week. It's been great to be back home.

We visited Vacya's school last week and he started school today, but just for the afternoon. He seemed excited to be around kids again and had quite the following when I was watching him play at recess. One of his classmates told me, "He's already so popular and it's only his first day." The school found a native Russian speaking women who is going to be translating for Vacya at school 3 afternoons a week, so we're pretty happy about that.

I'll try to get some pictures up soon.

Finally

Went to the American Embassy this morning to apply for Vacya's US visa, were able to have our interview right away (this usually takes place on the second day) and left with Vacya's visa. Yeah!!! We're finally coming home.

We got it!

We ended up getting Vacya's passport yesterday, made it on a train that evening, and arrived in Kiev this morning. We were able to get Vacya's medical exam already, so now we will just have to wait until Monday to apply for his US visa. Then hopefully that will be ready by Tuesday afternoon. Yeah!!! We're finally going to make it home!!!

No passport

Well, we didn't get Vacya's passport today. It was the earliest day we could get it, so it wasn't really a surprise that it wasn't here yet, but we're still disappointed. They told Andrei to call back again tomorrow to see if it's in. Hopefully it will be ready.

More pics

This is one of my favorite pictures... Joe and Vacya playing ball at the orphan camp.

Vacya and I having some pizza.

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