BUSY DAY!!

This will be a long post. We are currently at the apartment we moved to today. I am typing everything in Word then will Copy and Paste. This helps with the time we are paying for at the Internet Café.

I will start with our day then move onto responsive to Comments. By the way, after writing out the responds to as many comments I could I realized I will not be able to respond to all comments, but please be assured we truly joy reading each and every one. They are such a tremendous help with the homesickness.

We have had a busy day. We have been to the Inspector’s Office where there was a demonstration today (very calm though). I will try to post a picture. Then we had to get some papers notarized. We moved from the hotel to an apartment today. The hotel was expensive. We met with another doctor today. Jacob is still fine. We got the see him for a few minutes. I got to hold him for about 2 seconds. He is scared of us and wanted to go back to the nurse. Pray he will come around soon. The other little boy that called James papa the other day called James daddy today. They are all so sweet. We found out Jacob weighs 19 lbs. and is 31.5 in. tall. Some people have asked about the size of clothes he will wear. We still aren’t real sure. We’ll let you know as soon as we can.

We will be traveling all day tomorrow to get more paperwork signed. Hopefully, this will then allow us to start proceedings for us to be able to go to court. Our friends, Clark & Jenny had a mandatory 7 day wait after all paperwork was finalized before they could start court proceedings. We found out today we are in a region that does not require the wait. Thank you Lord. We may not be able to post tomorrow, but if we do I’m sure it will be short.

Let me back up alittle. We left Kyiv with a population of 4.5 million to come to Simferopol with a population of 1.5 million. Kyiv was convenient and we could walk most places (good exercise). Now we are in Simferopol 550 miles from Kyiv and so far it isn’t very convenient and we are having to use taxis (and boy is that a story in itself). Taxis aren’t cheap. Simferopol only has tourists in the 5 summer months, therefore things cost more to help them thru the other months.

The taxi rides were explained on someone else’s blog as a roller coaster ride at Disney World. I would have to say James & I agree. There isn’t a lot to see here in Simferopol that we have found yet. If there is anyone reading our blog that has been here and can tell us about any sites please do so.

We have found an Internet Café that is cheap to use and is next door to great pizza. James may not lose weight and I may gain. If we were still in Kyiv that wouldn’t be a problem. Kyiv has LOTS of stairs, escalators that are not working most of the time, and we have only found 2 elevators.

No hope for Dr. Pepper. James is still surviving on Coke. Sorry Frank. He will make it up when he gets back to work. :)

Joann that adopted from Simferopol - I have been hooked on blogs for almost 2 years. Mostly, Ukraine ones. Any advise? Thank you for your prayers.

TOOoo – Are you trying to give me a heart attack, triples?? Just kidding. They did tell us about twins, but it wasn’t possible.

Shannon & Reba – Sorry to hear that your trip has been postponed.

Carl & Sharon – It was so good to hear from you. We will have to get together so the boys can meet. They may become friends even though there is more a year age difference.

For you who don’t know Carl & Sharon, they adopted from Ukraine in January this year. Some of you have seen the pictures of Brodie and all have thought he is cute.

Becca – I’m not sure where to start with your comments. They are wonderful. Keep they coming. I would love to hear from Breanna. Tell the Sunday School class hi and thanks for the prayers and I miss them.

Donna – It’s good to hear from you and Jim. Thanks for the help getting us here. God Bless.

Rylee – It was great hearing from you. You had your own memorable adventure last week too. Enjoy your time at Troy University. We love you very much too.

Robbie – It was good hearing from you. Lauri and Hunter are great. We spent our first day here with Lauri mostly at the Coffee Shop blogging. It was great, Lauri is still calling and checking up on us. We will try to make it back to the Irish Pub. I know what you mean about the smells.

To the Whole Frachisuer (sp??) bunch – Thank you all for your comments and prayers. We love you all and can’t wait for you to meet Jacob.

Shauna & Haley – We can’t wait for you to meet your new cousin. We love you.

Tammy T. – Your comments have been wonderful. You guys aren’t the only ones having a good cry. James & I have to fight the tears sitting in the Internet Café. I think we are getting a few stares. That’s OK though. We love you and Phillip.

Anna – It was good hearing from you. We are trying to find out as much as we can about Ukraine so we can answer Jacob’s questions when he has them. There will be a lot of unanswered questions. Just pray we will know what to say to help him the though process. Where’s Alisa? I haven’t heard from her since the beginning.

Cris & Karen Mahy – It was good hearing from you. I will keep your email address just in case I have questions. With all the excitement I can’t think of any right now.

Karina – I’m so glad you love America and I hope Jacob is going to love it too. Thank you for writing on our blog and for your prayers. Do you have anything you can tell me that will help Jacob with all the changes?

Michele – I have now encountered 2 squat pots. I will leave it at that. :) Blogs are very addictive. Thank you for telling about Sunny & Jason’s blog. We will be here at least 3 more weeks.

Mama, Daddy, and Melissa – We love the comments. We really love talking with you. Skype.com is great. It allows us time to talk with costing an arm and leg. We miss you all very much and love you even more.

I’m going to post a few pictures. One of James & Ben (one of our facilitators), one of Sasha, our facilitator (Melissa – Sasha is a nickname for Alexander), and one of Andrew standing next to a picture of an adorable child, he is our translator.

We love all of you very much.

God Bless!!

James, Teresa, & Jacob