Well we are down to the last 9 days before we can pick up our little girl. We are tired of just visiting with her and want to spend all our time with her. Andrew and I both discussed it last night and we really don't feel like parents yet. We only get to see her for 3 hours a day so it is much more like we are babysitting then parenting. Everyday I just tell myself how many more we have to go before we get to have her forever. We are happy we get to see her everyday but it is very trying handing her back to a caregiver after the visit.
So as of May 3rd we are her forever family! This means we will bring some clothes to the baby house that morning for her, get her dressed and then take her with us back to the hotel. We will also be bringing the 69 pounds of clothes that we brought for donation; as well as little gifts for the caregivers, director and doctors that have taken care of Dinara for us. We wanted to throw a little party for them all but they don't have a room in which we can do this. Oh well! We are also going to buy the baby house some things they need...we've been told curtains but we are waiting to hear how much they need. Here they sell curtains by the meter not by the package. After we take her out of the baby house she is all ours. We will be staying in the hotel for another 3 days (until May 6th) and then we are going to Almaty. Here we will get her passport and some more paperwork out of the way. Andrew thought leaving to Almaty would be a good idea as we could break up some of the flying for our girl. We will stay in a nice apartment in Almaty and I will be able to cook for us finally!!! After that we are going to fly business class to Moscow. We saved a lot on our hotel here so we are spluging for the 5 hour flight. We are also going to try and upgrade our seats home (Lufthansa seats are like cement, but warmer). Well that should be enough for today. Talk soon. Miss you all.
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Good Evening almost parents.
Thanks for answering so many of my questions. We are also counting the days for you too. Tell Dinara that her Nana is 60 tomorrow! Almost today as it is 11:55!
Love to all three of you, Nana and Opa
Only 9 more days!! Maybe 8 by the time you read this?
I can understand not quite feeling like real parents yet, but that will change on the 3rd. I'm happy to hear that you'll be making the first leg of your journey home on the 6th; if the date has to be part of my life, I'm glad it's going to be on something as wonderful as the start of your journey home as a family.
Much love to the three of you,
b
Morning Pearson Family, zerberts all around please. Have to try to keep my anxiousness(if a word)in hold. It soon will time for you all to come home, but not soon enough for some of us. Glad to hear you will be breaking up the journey, not so hard on Little One or the parents either. Just hard on us here at home. Will close now. Love and zerberts to you all, Mom & Dad/ Grands.
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