Bringing Dariya home: Here comes the sun...

UPDATE 8pm our time, please be in prayer for our judge, we have been assigned one who is not "adoption friendly" meaning she could delay our court date also our interpol clearances have not come in yet.  We are hoping for good news on Tuesday night (either a court date or a new judge.)

Dariya is in groupa #7 (entry door on the left)

It is much cooler today (thankfully) in the 70's.  But, just as we were heading out it started raining not a lot but, just a steady mist.  As I am writing the sun has come out and my crazy Englishman went to the market and was outside singing, "Here comes the sun..." I am sure our neighbors think we are nuts.

Father's Day - enjoying her first frozen yogurt.  She knows the MORE sign well! 

We had to exchange some money today so headed to our bank across the street from our apartment.  Well, what do you know, they don't exchange money??? What? 



We had to jump on the trolley to downtown and exchange there.  But, while we were there we were able to grab a nice coffee in one of the coffee shops.  The folgers singles leave a little to be desired. 

 We headed back towards home and walked to the orphanage for our morning visit, knowing we would have to stay inside in the hallway to play we took the laptop with us to see if we could entertain Dariya with a little signing time.

Hmm, what is this signing time?

She was interested for about 5 minutes then off to play.  Daddy entertained her with chasing her down the hall and hiding behind the big plants.  One worker walked by and said, "Mama" and patted me, Dariya then said "Papa" which is what they say for daddy over here (the word for uncle is dya dya which sounds like daddy).  The worker laughed and said, "ahh".  Don't let this fool you, she is ALL a mama's girl (but don't tell daddy).

We were also told off, kindly though, for opening the hallway windows to allow a nice cool breeze in.  Of course, I translated her words to mean, "if it isn't 300 degrees in here Dariya will get sick so close the window you silly American".  LOL

When we arrived home from our morning visit the cleaning lady had come and wow was our apartment sparkling clean (even nicer than when we arrived).

Hopefully we will have good news tonight from Luda about our court date, judge and interpol clearances.  Please keep praying for these specifics. 

We thank you SO much for all the messages and comments left, with nothing much to do while we wait for our visits and in the evenings we read and reread all of them.

She is very ticklish..