Hello from Lugansk. Things are going very well here. From what we understand, the way things are supposed to progress!! The kids are great, and the best news is that they want to be adopted!!! They are 9 & 7. A little bit older than what we originally thought that we would adopt, but we are also a bit older too. The 9 year old is very anxious to learn English. We have some flash cards on them that have Russian/Ukrainian/English are are starting to teach them some basic words. She has started taking English in school and can count to 10, she is now working on 11-20. Once she starts speaking more, he will also be more interested. He is a typical boy, all we wants to do is play, run, climb the jungle jim. We were there today from 10:30 to noon and are going back from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. There is also an Italian woman adopting a little boy, her 10 day wait was up yesterday. There is also a couple from the US adopting 2 boys, I believe they are pretty much at the same stage a us. We saw them Thursday night and hope to see them tonight. It's nice to have another couple from "home" to talk to. We are not sure when we are going to court, but are hoping to know next week. Hopefully it will be soon, we are dying to get home. The kids are great and we are enjoying our time with them and here, but it will be nice to be at home.

Yes, the bed sheets are also driving me nuts...note to PAP's, bring pins to pin them to the mattress. You wake up in the morning and they are a big ball!!

We are staying in the Hotel Lugansk. It's very nice! 1000% better than Makeevka. Hot water all the time. Nice bed, fridge, great location. The internet is across the street, and it's a super convenient location.

Thank you again to everyone for the Gilmore Girl updates!

Thanks to everyone for your e-mails and posting, it's so nice to have that connection from home.

For those of you who know my dog, he is staying with my in-laws, and keeping them on their toes. He has been eating their bread (left on the counter), opened the lazy susan in the kitchen and helped himself to a package of Raman noodles, and goes through their garbage for them!!

Happy birthday to our nephew Kaelan who turned 7 on October 18th. We were unable to go to the party, but Benji did and had some chip and dip in our absence!!

Happy anniversary to us. We celebrated 5 years yesterday. We went to Kiev for the day with the kid to go to the doctor for the Canadian medicals for immigration. Tonight we are going to find a restaurant to go to.