Our Family of Three Becomes Four!

It's official!!! We are the PROUD parents of Kallie Frances Deck.

Our facilitator arrived at our apartment around 9:30 this morning to go over the court process. At 10:45 the driver picked us up. We went to the orphanage first to get a representative from there and then we were off to court. We arrived about 30 minutes early. The process began right on time. We were in court at 12:00 noon. The judge was a woman, the translator was a woman, the social worker was a woman, the prosecutor was a woman, the representative from the orphanage was a woman, the secretary was a woman, the jury was 2 women, Darryl was the only man in the room (Kaiden is a boy). Some of the questions that were asked of us included 1.Is your home big enough to accomodate a second child? 2. Do we have medical insurance?, Would Kallie be covered? 3. Why we don't have any biological children? 4. What would we do if we were to have a biological child now? 5. How big is your mortage and how long until it will be paid off? After 52 minutes the judge asked for a 3 minute recess to overloook everything. We were called back in and it was approved! We have been granted legal custody and we were given permission to change her name.
Now we have a 10 day wait. BAHUMBUG! We understand that in this region they don't count Sundays in the 10 wait so that means another delay and we don't get to pick up the final court's decision until Tues. Feb. 3rd.
Our facilitator hinted today that it would be easier to do the paper run (Birth Certificate, Passport documents, etc.) without Kallie. That means we wouldn't take Kallie out of the orphanage until Wed. or Thurs. that week. We'll have to wait and see!!!
Another delay that we could encounter is with Kallie's passport. Apparently we have to get the passport done here in Dnipro. We only go to Kiev to get the Canadian Visa from the Canadian Embassy. The past couple here (they're from France) having been waiting 8 days and still don't have their child's passport. Time will tell what kind of wait we will have. We know that our tentative plans of flying home on Feb. 7/8 weekend are unrealistic. Once we have talked to our facilitator more we will be able to get a better idea of when we'll be flying home. (this was the "downer" of the day!!) Today marks 5 weeks that we've been in Ukriane and we are getting very anxious to be back at home!
We did not go visit Kallie today because the day was just too busy! We will be back on track tomorrow with our visits.