It was a great day today--
Not because we got our signature-- that did NOT happen (but the Maples' got theirs--YAY!!)
But we did get permission to spring Milos for the weekend. He will be coming with us to the apartment on Friday morning and HOPEFULLY back Monday only long enough for us to do the adoption ceremony.
The ministry here wanted an additional report from the staff here on the progress he has made since coming to this orphanage. Fair and understandable. It was sent this morning. So hopefully we got our signature today - one always finds out the following day.
The process after the signature is:
Adoption ceremony (usually the following day)
Translate all the paperwork (same day)
Apply for passport (same day but takes 2 days to process)
Get medical check for US Visa (after passport is issued)
Get Visa appointment
Fly out the Day AFTER Visa appointment (hopefully)
So about 3 working days after the ceremony we will be on our way home.
Not much we can do until the approval is signed other than enjoy our time with Milos and dig on the wonderful weather here in EE (joking-- have not see the sun in over a week)
Sooo Today
We were up and out and to the Orphanage by 9:30- Got Milos and took him downstairs to get pushed around in his stroller and enjoy some pudding-- at 10:30 the workers started on his "life book" They painted his tiny little hand blue and made a handprint in his book---they then vanished-- hummm guess they were finished!
11am is lunch time-- we said our goodbyes and headed to lunch with Jon and Sarah at Pizza Hut (we finally found it on our own-- about 1km from the apartment)
We dropped off our leftovers at the apartment and caught a taxi to the US Embassy to pick up Milos' immigration paperwork (it was nice to be on American soil if only for 40 minutes) Thanks to the nice folks there!
We hiked up the hill about a Kilometer to the tram stop-- we caught a #9 (they are the really nice trams donated by Basel, Switzerland) to the orphanage.
Milos stunned us this afternoon. We did our usual trip to the lobby to play away from the smoke and commotion of the floor. Milos ate some yummy chocolate pudding-- he prefers the vanilla. They had a small riding horse and we decided to let him give it a try--WOW-- He was a demon on that little pony-- He goes forward, backward, perfect steering and loves to play bumper "ponies" with papa-- See the video
WAY too soon it was time for him to go back and get changed-- then time for dinner and bed.
Zutra Little Milos-- Zutra
We decide to splurge for dinner and we went o Sport-- a cute little place by the tram stop-- here is dinner!YUMMY!
Here's a quick look at today's pics
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what a cutie pie! For some reason all your blog posts JUST showed up on my reader! so that might account for the lack of comments!
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