Another vist and our first delay

Being able to go outside makes such a difference! They brought Oksana to us today looking very cute. She had her hair in a ponytail and was in the same dress from the other day with a sweater that was a bit too small. We walked Oksana around and saw kids from her baby house out walking with the workers. We were beginning to wonder if they ever took them out so it was good to see them. We got to see Marshall and Monroe from Reece's Rainbow. They are both precious. You can probably tell that the pictures and videos are getting to be less and less! We really do the same things over and over so some of these visits are getting to be a lot like groundhog day, except in different outfits! Today we gave Oksana a banana. We knew she loved them and she was very excited to see it come out of our bag. I peeled it half way down and handed it to her. She took one bite of the banana and then took a bite of the peel! Lesson learned...give Oksana the banana WITHOUT the peel!

We were just about to bring her back to the workers when they came out and told us, through a very rough translation, that they needed our driver to take the doctor to get some documents for Oksana. They said we could stay here and walk Oksana around for another half an hour. We'd had a good visit up to that point and she was just starting to get a bit tired of walking in circles so that's not really what we wanted to hear. We took her over to swing for awhile and then it started raining on us so we went in and played until our driver came to get us. It was well past her lunch time at that point and she willingly went with the worker to eat.

Here are some pictures:




We also learned today that we are facing delay #1. It probably won't be the last, but hopefully there won't be many more. There is an international background check called interpol that has to be done here in Ukraine. It holds up many families in this process so we were not at all surprised to hear that our interpol clearance is not ready and that means we may not have court tomorrow. If it comes in today or tomorrow we can still have court but otherwise we have to wait to hear from Nadiya before we can move forward. We were well prepared to hear this but it's still disappointing when you want nothing more than to go home.

We will not visit Oksana tomorrow. We want to be available in case we do get to have court.