Back to the orphanage to see about a son

It is starting to be a big blur…..Last night I (Jennifer) left Kiev, Ukraine with Victor to see Elizabeth (aka Alina) and to see a boy (if he is in the orphanage, the director isn’t sure where he is at the moment). At this point, I have seen a picture of him, cannot pronounce his name, but know he has no brothers or sisters. He is 10 years old. This is way out of my comfort zone guys!! A day ago, Terry and I thought we were finished with looking for a boy from orphanage #3, and would just be taking Elizabeth home with us, but the lady at the SDA continued to look in the files and found two possible boys. We narrowed it down to this one boy. So Victor and I took the 11-hour train ride to Zaporozhye where the orphanage is located. I said good-bye to Terry. Today he is flying to go back to the US because our oldest daughter is graduating from high school. Unfortunately I cannot be there. I will be missing the youngest daughter’s moving up to middle school ceremony also. So we got off the train, went to the apartment, took a nap and then went to the orphanage. When I got to the orphanage we went to the second floor and I asked where Elizabeth (aka Alina) was. She was changing clothes or something so Victor and I walked into the computer room. I was looking around the room (trying to appear casual and not nosy) and there was several boys playing computer games. I was in there several minutes and didn’t realize “the boy” was in the room!!!!! Boy do I feel silly and weird at the same time! So Victor introduces me to the boy. I might have said a few sentences about Terry being here for the mission’s trip last year and does he remember. I think he said he remembered the trip and Terry, but I am not real sure…it happened so fast. During this time, in walks Elizabeth. Victor tells him she is being adopted…do you want to go with them? And his eyes got big and he said “Da” (Yes)! He then asked Elizabeth if she liked him and she said “Da”! That is it! I left the room and he continued to play computer games for a while. Elizabeth and I sat on a couch with a bunch of her friends and she went through my laptop case. I wanted to be with both of them, but did not want to leave Elizabeth with my laptop, cell phone, cash and numerous other things. I did talk to him a few minutes, but then left to see the inspector at 2 pm. We came back with the inspector and waited for Ecaterina for about an hour. She was not at the orphanage when we arrived. This meeting was shorter than Elizabeth’s meeting. We discussed many things, but Keril (pronounced Key-real) Denisov said he would like to be our son. Pretty fast I would say! He has a cast on his right arm that should be coming off in 5-6 days or so. Apparently he was running with his arms out and hit his right arm on a building. Imagine that! He reminds me of Zack!!! Anyway, he is left handed like Taylor and I. The rest of the day was spent showing him pictures of the family, playing games on the laptop and just talking in Ecaterina’s office. I then took Elizabeth to the store for sodas so she would not feel left out. In the end, both of them walked Victor and I to the bus stop outside the orphanage and I snapped a picture of the two of them together. They were both smiling! It was a good day. Tomorrow is more running around.