Thursday, July 24, 2008

She finally smiled at us!


Congratulations to Donnie and Rai-Lynn! They had their court date today and everything went great! Russ and Monica leave bright and early tomorrow morning. They’ll go back to Moscow and then on home Saturday. We all went out to dinner tonight to the Krem CafĂ© to celebrate. Here is a picture of us.

Today we visited the Baby Home two times. And she SMILED at us two times!!!! We were so happy! We have tried so hard to find something that would make her smile. She did great today. We read the photo book that we made for her a couple of times. We are going to leave it with her, so she can have pictures of us while we’re gone. We also gave her a little doll that we are going to be leaving with her. We brought a disposable camera with us and are hoping to leave that as well, so that her caregivers can take pictures of her between now and when we return to take her home. We took a lot of pictures today and Greg took some video also. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the smile part on the video. But there will be lots more smiles to come.

Tomorrow is our last day to visit with her, since we leave first thing Saturday morning. This is going to be so hard, leaving her, but we know she’ll be in good hands and we’ll get back here as soon as we can to bring her home forever.

3 comments:

Alli said...

Okay, so my first comment failed. so we just keep trying with a little help from Allison. We are doing the happy dance and crying tears of joy around here. Bobbi is here helping me navigate your blog. I am sooo excited. We have to plan the shower!!!! Love aunt Janice

Patti said...

How exciting! I'm so glad things are going well. I'm sure it will be hard to leave her. I love the picture of Krem Cafe. It brings back memories.

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I wanted to let you know that we are so very happy for your beautiful little girl. You are very blessed but so is she. You are going to be wonderful parents. We loved being with you on this trip, we made great memories to last a lifetime! - Monica