The big day has arrived!
We had our appointment this morning at 10am- Chris wore a shirt and tie and Kim also dressed up. Yuri brought us there and got us in right away. The appointment went great! It was with a psychologist and a state interpretator. They were both young women and seemed very nice. They asked who we were looking to adopt, and we said two children under the age of 5. First they said there were no siblings available, but Chris continued to ask questions about adopting two, and then they said they did have two brothers to show us.
The oldest boy is named Ivan and he was born in 2002 and is 4 1/2. The younger brother is Dmytro; he was born in 2003 and is 3 1/2. They appear to be healthy, besides normal orphanage delays, but we will know more once we meet them. They appear to be very blond headed, although their pictures were almost a year old from when they first entered the orphanage. She said they are both friendly children who love to play, and are very sociable. They didn't have much more information on them. She said they were the only sibling referral they had for us, but we were very happy with it and didn't ask to see anyone else. We are so excited to meet them! So, we will get the official referral for them on Monday by 5pm and then will travel to their city and meet them on Tuesday. The city we will be traveling to is Novograd-Volynskiy and is about 2 hours west from Kyiv.
We will spend the weekend sightseeing in Kyiv-there is someone who will take us to see the sights. Then we will meet up with our facilitator, I believe his name is Igor, and he will be the one traveling with us to Novograd-Volynskiy.
We are so excited! Please continue praying for us- that these boys are the ones God has for us, that the meeting will go well, and all our dealings with the governing agencies will go smoothly. We probably won't post again until after the meeting.