Back to Kaz!

Hi everyone!
We should be leaving April 14, 2007 for Kazakhstan.
Then we request our court date and then hopefully a few days after that we will be in court to officially ask to adopt Askar "Quinn". We will only be gone from the states about 1 week. We will be leaving Parker with my Aunt and Uncle and our nanny too. This will be the first time we have ever been without Parker! We will miss him bunches.

We are excited that we are finally going to see Askar! We are certain he is confused by the unfortunate events that have made his adoption longer than usual. We are bringing him a map of the world and with red ink we are going to show him where we live and where he lives (for now) Hopefully he won't be too bummed that he isn't going home just yet. The process is just too confusing when you are only 5 years old. We are giving him a calendar to cross off the dates until his Mama (Me) comes back for him to finish the final step in his adoption.

Please check back for more......

Quinn was visited by our translator

Hello,

Our lovely translator Maria visited Askar for us! Maria found out that Askar had spent a week in the hospital for his ear infection. Maria said that he was brought back to the Baby House and that his ear looked fine. We are happy to hear that his little ear is better. Maria said that he asked for us to bring him new clothes and for Parker to bring him a car. Quinn(Askar) knows that he will be getting new clothes to leave the orphanage! We can't wait to bring him home!

Little did we know that a couple of cookies and organic juice boxes cause ear infections....ha ha ha!!

We should be flying back to Kaz the first part of April for our Adoption Hearing. Then there will be the required 25 day waiting period. Then I will go back to Kaz and get his passport and other items and finish with his medical exam from the US Embassy in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

We'll keep you all posted with this final stage of this process.

The Special Document is SIGNED!

We just heard the news that the Mayor of Ust-Kamenogorsk signed the Special Document regarding Askar's adoption.

Tyler and I will now make our travel plans to go back. Just need to make sure my Visa is okay. Tyler's Visa is good because he accidentally got my "double entry"......oh well we ended up needing it!

Our Adoption Coordinator in Kaz said that she visited with Askar and she said that he really misses us. That is the sad part to us. This process must be confusing to him. It confuses us and were adults!

We will keep you updated on when we leave!