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Domenick and Anthony with Mom 

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Here is a picture of Domenick and Anthony at the beach 

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Domenick and Anthony At Home 

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Hi All,Well we are home. Anthony and his big brother are feeling each other out and all seems well.We are having some issues communicating with him but it gets better every day. We are also having problems with his eating habits. He is a pretty picky eater and We are trying to figure what foods to give him since his pallette is not used to "American foods". It is getting to be a challenge ...The

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Hi All!!Well we just got done at the us consulate and we should be receving Anthony's visa today at 3:45. This means that we can go home tommorrow. I have already made reservations to arrive in JFK tommorrow (Thursday) night at about 9:30. This means we will probably not claer customs till 11:00 and arrive home till well past midnight. So everyone I work with I will not be in until Monday.This

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Hi All,Well we got Anthony's birth certificate and passport done over the weekend and are back in Kiev. We need only to get the certificate authenticated, get Anthony a secondphysical by the US embassy, get his visa , check airline tickets and away we go. Easy Right... Well not for us . It turns out today is a holiday in Ukraine and all offices are closed. This also includes the US Embassy and

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Hi All,I literally have 2 minutes we are trying to start the immigration paperwork for Anthony and it is a little crazy right now. I will update more Saturday. We went to court today and we were granted custody of Anthony. We are officially his parents. We will try and get his new birth certificate and passport today and try and get home mid-late next week. Like I said I have less then 5 minutes

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Hi All-Well its only Sunday and it feels like this weekend will never end- its raining and miserable outside.. Pasquale and I found a missionary group of Americans that live here and run one of the local churches. They were a godsend.. We were aching to talk to someone in ENGLISH and we found them and for a good couple of hours last night and this afternoon we didn't miss home as much. We went

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Hi All,Well here we are going into our 3rd week here.We are now just waiting for the adoption centre to verify our paperwork and for a court hearing. We have already had a pre-trial meeting with the judge and everything looked in order except for a court decree which was a copy of an original. The Judge called over to a coligue in another district to get a copy of the decree and he agreed to send

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Hi All-Well all the paperwork is done and we can actually breath a sigh of relief..at least until Tuesday when we "talk" with the judge. Otherwise we are looking forward to a nice weekend. We will visit the child for a few hours each day and play with him and the rest of his group, who if we could afford to we would bring all 15 of them home- they are the sweetest kids... Playing with all of them

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Hi All-We went to the orphanage today and we met the little boy- he is great!! For Joyce's family just picture what Vincent looked like at 2 yrs old and this little boy could be his clone.. He is very sweet and extrememly quiet but that's to be expected.. The three of us bonded instantly and within the first 5 minutes our translator was already starting the process to adopt him.. Pasquale and

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Hi All,Well we finally got all the paperwork thru and we are on our way tommorrow to the orphanage. Joyce is pretty excited and we are hoping all goes well. We will try and update sometime tomorrow. The orphanage is 2 hrs away and we are leaving at 6:00 AM Kiev time which is 11:00 PM in the US. So while you are watching Seinfeld please think of us..Mariella and Tim, Thanks for the pictures of

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Hi All,This is Pasquale. Please do not mistake anything I say here for Joyce.. Well they found the kids sister. They said they are getting us the paperwork and it should be arriving by bus after the mayor signs it. No Lie... To top things off I do not have access to my e-mail.And people were trying to call us all weekend and for some reason could not get ahold of us.Today I really am home sick,

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Well we are in limbo AGAIN!!! We chose the child on Thursday and the only obstacle was that he has 3 other sibilings whom he has not had any contact with but they need to find these kids and sign a document stating that it is okay to separate them and adopt this little guy on his own.. Seems simple right?? Not for us.. Our translator went on Friday to have all this done and well it seems they

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Our 2nd appointment was today and it looks like we found a 2 1/2 year old boy. This time we feel a lot more confident that the information we have been given about him is more accurate. We will find out on Friday or Monday when we visit him. There is a lot of paperwork involved with this little one but we have a good feeling that he will be worth it. As hard as it was to let little "Alexi" go

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Today was the absolute hardest day of our lives- we had to turn down little "Alexi". We discovered during the doctors examinations of him that his heatlh was not what we were led to believe. He is unfortunately a very sick little boy and we in good conscience cannot take him and give him the life he deserves. There were a lot of "what ifs" and as hard as the decision was- we needed to make the

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Hi All-It's been a crazy few days but we think we have found Domenick's brother. He is 18 months old and adorable. He of course has a few problems but nothing that a lot of love can't cure. We will be visiting him over the weekend and on Monday we will take him to a doctor to have a few things checked out and if we get the ok we will begin the journey of bringing him home. Hope everyone

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Here is Picture Of Ourselves

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