April 17, 2010

Day 3 of seeing Dylan and it went really well. It’s really a difference from day 1 and he’s slowly getting more used to us. We play a game with him as I hold him he runs to Fil and then Fil grabs him and he runs back to me. But the best part is when he reaches us he cracks up of laughter, tooo cute!!! We did that about 5 times and he was dead tired and fell asleep. He’s not used to so much physical activity because it really drained him. The caregivers don’t want him to sleep because they have a schedule to follow and it will disrupt all his rest of the day. At 1st I could not understand why they insisted that the children in the 2 hour bonding period do not fall asleep but now I totally understand because if he’s awake while the others are taking their nap he will wake them up and disrupt everyone’s schedule. But it’s still very difficult not to make him sleep when all he wants to do is sleep. We were holding him standing up and he still would fall asleep. So we made him sleep for about 15 minutes and woke him up before someone came in.
After lunch we went to the internet café but it was really slow and everything is in Russian and we could not make anything work so we then went for a beer at a restaurant, 2 huge beers and a coffee $2.00, what a bargain!!!! Later that evening the owner of the house came by with his 3 kids and brought us a fairly new computer and we finally have internet. We are still having problems getting in our blog. We had a real good laugh trying to communicate with each other.

The owner of the house and his kids ARE SUPER SUPER NICE!!!! He then asked Fil if he horse back rides and Fil said yes and he then told us he would pick us up at 2:00 the following day to take us to his farm where he has his horses.

April 16, 2010

I decided to shave everything to see if Dylan would have a different reaction to me. We went at the orphanage in the morning and Mary and I both went upstairs to get him and guess what he wasn’t scared anymore. Wow!!!! He was doing better today. He was getting in his comfort zone a little more but still wasn’t sure about us.

After lunch we decided to go for walk and go to the internet café cause our computer still wasn’t’ working. We tried to email some pictures but it would take to much time so we waited till our computer at home would get fixed. By the way I hadn’t mentioned in the previous days that both toilet sinks were leaking and we had “Cockroaches”. I’ve never seen so many per day, I would say about 10 per day. Unbelievable!!!! Disgusting!!!

We then met Nathalie at the restaurant from the previous night cause we could have used our computer for the WiFi and it was free. Plus Nathalie had her English course and we then met her there. The name of the restaurant is “The Bear”. We spent some time there and guess what I couldn’t get a signal for the internet. The story of our lives. Wow!!!

We then went for supper at a restaurant called “Medley”. It was ok. We had a few laughs and a good time.

The Reunion At Last

April 15, 2010

Off we went to see Dylan at the orphanage from 9:30 to 11:30. Wow! When he saw me and approached me he was so scared and crying softly cause I had my pinch and I hadn’t shaved. It really made me feel bad inside but I could understand the situation. So it was kind of the beginning of the first time when we met him at bonding period, where Dylan was analyzing us and wasn’t so sure about us. It was a little discouraging but we tried to be as positive as possible. Mary began crying as soon as we drove up in front of the orphanage and when we all went upstairs to his room she began crying a lot when she saw him. Nathalie was also crying with her, it was very emotional!!!! The caregivers and Medet felt really bad.

We went for supper with Nathalie, Jeremy and Becky (from Philadelphia) and Randy and Marsha (from Wisconsin) who are all in the process of adopting. We really had a nice time and it was a real good distraction after the day we had.

April 14, 2010

We went to the notary to sign some papers later we got ready to go to court. We got to court and there was the Director of the Orphanage and the Secretary of the Minister of Education. The Secretary of the judge came out and said the court was re-scheduled for April 19 at 3:00.

We weren’t able to see Dylan today but we were looking forward to seeing him tomorrow

Part 2 - Kazakhstan

April 13, 2010

Yes were back, sorry for the delay!!!!!!

After 2 long flights we finally got in Almaty at 1:45 a.m. The travelling went very smoothly and we got a bit of rest on the plane.
We left Almaty around 1:45 p.m. by train and arrived in Taraz around 11:45 p.m.
There was no corruption on the train, meaning nobody asked us for money. Just before we got on the train as we were in the hotel we read in a blog of a couple from Canada adopting twins in Taraz that the judge (same as ours) refused them for the adoption. That put us totally to the ground and feel so horrible for them and what they must be going through.
We have our court date tomorrow the 14th at 2:00. We are looking forward to this court date and then hopefully we can get to see our Dylan after or before court. We can’t wait to see Dylan. Just to see his beautiful face and the reaction he will have when he sees us.

Arrived in Almaty

Hi Everyone!!
It's 3:30 am and we arrived in Almaty and staying in a hotel for the night. We take the train at 1:45 and arrive on the 13th in Taraz by 11:30.pm We go to court in the afternoon on the 14th!!!

Later

Departure

Hello Everyone,

We R Back!!!! Finally leaving for part 2 in Kazakhstan. Running around like crazy to finalize everything before we leave.... Boy do we have alot of stuff to bring. It's a good thing we left a suitcase in Kazakhstan with items that we will need again.

Let the Journey Begin!!!!

11 APR 2010 - SUNDAY (Montreal to London)
AIR BMI FLT:4864
MONTREAL TRUDEAU-LONDON HEATHROW OPERATED BY AIR CANADA
LV MONTREAL TRUDEAU 750PM EQP: AIRBUS A330-300
06HR 40MIN


12 APR 2010 - MONDAY (London to Almaty,Kazakhstan)
AR LONDON HEATHROW 730AM NON-STOP
AIR BMI FLT:991
LONDON HEATHROW-ALMATY OPERATED BY ASTRAEUS LTD
LV LONDON HEATHROW 1250P EQP: BOEING 757
07HR 35MIN


13 APR 2010 - TUESDAY (Almaty to Taraz)

Either a 10 hr long boring train ride or 1.5 hr very bumpy and very noisy flight! not sure yet what will be available for us. We'll find out once we get to Kazakhstan.

We will arrive in Taraz on Tuesday the 13th and we have our Pre-court on the 14th and about 5 days later we will have our final court day. A couple of days later we get the decision of the judge and we then have to wait a 2 week appeal. After the 2 week appeal is over we then pick up Dylan from the orphanage and bring him to stay with us while they begin his paperwork. They will only begin getting his documents once the 2 week appeal is over. His paper work consists of
1- new birth certificate
2- adoption certificate
3- passport
4- visa
5- citizenship

We found out that we'll be staying in the same house again with Nathalie. Nathalie and Christoph have their court date on April 20th and Christoph will be coming for 2 weeks just for the the court.
The german couple that was there with us the 1st time also got their court date for April 21st. It will be nice seeing all 3 couples again!!!!

later!!