SUCCESS AND SCARE!!

Katrina is all ours, barring, of course, any wild happening in the next 10 days!!

We had our court appointment yesterday at 3:30pm and it went very smoothly. We answered only a few questions, the usual ones regarding our home and the like. The judge did ask Stephen about his profession. His response of being a professor of computer technology at a university always gets a lot of positive nods. Anyway, the whole process took 13 minutes. Now, we wait the mandatory 10 days, which will be a week from this Friday. The following Monday we will take care of passports and birth certificates and then be off to Kiev. If all goes according to plan, we will be on a plane on February 7th.

That was our success yesterday... now for the scare.

We were in our hotel room yesterday about 12:45 having a light lunch when our facilitator came knocking at the door. She said the orphanage had called and something was wrong with Katrina and that we needed to pick her up and take her to the hospital. On the ride over, our facilitator explained that something was wrong with Katrina's left leg. When we got to the orphanage she jumped up and ran into Stephen's arm. But, the workers there insisted that she had been limping around. So, we took her to the local hospital (the hospital is another story all by itself) where she was immediately seen by a doctor. (Orphanage children get priority at the hospital.) He just shrugged his shoulders after watching Katrina walk around.

As it turns out, the orphanage can get in very big trouble if something happens to a child so close to his/her adoption date. So, when the workers saw Katrina limping, they immediately wanted to send her to the doctor for care.

Needless to say, the whole thing gave us a scare. In then end, we laughed it off as a bit of an over-reaction.

Enjoy more photos for Katrina. She is a pistol!!