Bringing Dariya home: Oh Mr. Sun!

Today when we arrived for our morning visit we were welcomed with hugs, kisses and a request for the Mr. Sun song.  It is by far her favorite.  This is the first time she has requested any of the songs we have been singing with her.  Here is a little video clip (ignore the strange lady singing along).



Dariya's groupa was playing in their sandbox today and she wanted to join them.  However, it cut our visit short by about 45 minutes because the caregiver took them in early to rinse all the sand off.  We stripped her down to her diaper then the caregiver poured water on her.  She LOVED it and was giggling the whole time. This one is going to be a fish...

Dariya asked for a drink of water from the caregiver (they serve them in china cups) and when she was finished she told her thank you and covered the cups and teapot up with the towel.

We still haven't heard about our interpol clearances yet today, praying that we hear good news this evening.  If we get the clearance and court goes tomorrow as planned this is a loose schedule of what the rest of our trip will look like. 

Unfortunatley, right after court we don't get to go grab our girl, there is a 10 day wait until the court decree becomes final.   A couple regions waive the 10 day wait but, ours has not for any of the other 3 RR families who have been here this year so we expect to wait.

Once the court decree is final our process will look like this:

June 24 - Court at noon, followed by a 10 day wait

July 5- Court decree is final, apply for Dariya's passport (could take 3-10 days), get her new birth certificate and close her bank account out here (donate to the orphanage)

July 11 - Praying that passport is back in 5 days or less 

July 12  - Gotcha Day - take her out of the orphanage forever, travel back to the capital city

July 13 & 14th  - Embassy appointments, Dariya's visa and medical

July 15th (our 10th anniversary) fly home - How about that for an anniversary gift? Although I would take the passport coming in much sooner and us being home before our anniversary too.  LOL 

Prayer requests:

• Please pray for our interpol clearances to come in today (Thursday).  Not only would it be great not to worry about it but it will save us money in transportation costs getting our facilitator down to our city from the capital city.  If she has the clearance today she can take a bus but if she has to wait until tomorrow morning for the clearance she will have to use a car and driver costing us a lot more.
• Pray for our words as we go in front of this judge.  Give us the words to speak that will overwhelmingly have this judge say yes without question to this adoption.
• That all we are doing here is bringing Glory to our Heavenly Father.