Court Date

Here are our new digs. The outside may look very intimidating but the inside is really neat. There is probably a life lesson to be learned there as well. We are glad to be in these apartments. The couple helping us let us have the nicer apartment because the people that have rented these apartments need to get into the other apartment on occasion to use a washer and they obviously can't communicate with us. Our driver said that the road to this apartment is something like driving on the moon. It is just a dirt road (yes we are in the city), more like an alley, with ruts and rises that you would not believe.

We have court date for this Thursday (10 AM local, 3 AM for most reading this). God has really put the right people in the right places for us. We can not wait to share what He has done for us. It is too much to put into words really. We continue to visit the orphanage and Coy. He is a very sharp little boy and seems to be quite popular with both the kids and the caregivers. Maybe all of the kids are treated the same but his name is one of the few Russian words that we recognize. When he walks by, we hear the kids say his name.

Please continue to pray for us. Especially as the days slow down and we wait. Homesickness will start to set in even more than it already has.

Our schedule for the next 2 weeks is pretty much, get up, go to the orphanage, visit for an hour, go eat, get on the internet, go visit for another hour, and then go back to the apartment.

The weather has started to warm up some and that is good.

We have discovered that Coy's favorite thing is "machina" (car). If there are any cars around, he just wants to point and look. He has some trouble speaking so we can barely understand his broken Russian but there is no mistaking what has his interest. It reminds us of Caleb and the way he was so interested in hats when he was younger. Coy can down a banana pretty fast and is good with crackers. He has mastered signing "more" and "please". We are working on others.

He has had a few small temper tantrums when he didn't get his way but nothing worse than what we have seen before. He is easily distracted. We took him for a ride in our NASCAR stroller and he stayed in for the entire hour. That will be good for going through the airport.

We don't know if there will be much "news" to report after the court date on Thursday. We will probably try to post some more pictures of our experiences here in Donetsk as well as share some of our thoughts.

Thanks for posting messages and sending e-mails. It is really encouraging to us. Thanks most of all for your prayers. It is just amazing what can happen when His people pray. Our faith has increased exponentially because we have been a first hand witness to the direct answering of prayers. It is truely undescribable. If you could, we would ask that you would pray that we would be able to get the birth certificate and the passports on Monday, April 30 and that there are no glitches in court on Thursday. There are national holidays on May 1 and 2 so if can't get things taken care of on Monday, it will mean at least another 2 days of sitting around Donetsk.