It's Greek to me!

Day 22 – October 1 – October has been a good month so far. Not much to complain about yet. We did have an interesting day though (don’t get your hopes up). We started our day like any of our last days here in the Ukraine. We get up, eat breakfast, walk to the baby home, play with Veeka, come back to the hotel, eat lunch, and then…we got a phone call from Marina. She told us that one of us needed to get ready to go get Veeka and take her to the passport office. We were not expecting to do this until Wednesday, so we were happy to get it done a few days early. Veeka and Mama went with Marina, Gene, Todd (the husband from Georgia) and his son Thomas to the passport office and sat for around 1 and a half hours (the passport offices here are not any more exciting than the passport offices in America). We were all glad that we brought toys and a snack. Both Veeka and Thomas were very good. We got started on all of our paperwork for her passport and now all we are waiting for is her birth certificate to arrive from Kiev; Monty leaves in the morning to get that taken care of. The sad news is we did find out that we cannot take her from the baby home until we have ALL, including the passport, of her paperwork, which means Friday at the earliest. So here is the special request time, we need to say a special prayer for her passport to get here by this Friday before the close of business.

Because we had to run to the passport office, we only got to go to the baby home once. We played and played this morning and she had a great visit. We ate some yogurt, played chalk and dug through my bag. She pretty much found anything that was in there. We played with Papa’s jump drive (on and off her neck), she put glasses wipes in her pocket, and enjoyed adding some powder to her nose. She is a girl when it comes to makeup.

Caleb is still doing good. He loves doing his homework, which makes it easy for us to get it done. He talks about all of the things he is going to do when he gets home. He hasn’t complained at all about being here, but I know he will love getting to be home for a while. On British Airways everyone receives a few items for the trip including a sleeping mask. We have all used these masks at different times. Caleb really thinks they are great and he goes to sleep quickly when wearing them. I think it is pretty cute that our little guy likes to wear it. I did forget to tell you about Caleb and his sermon on Sunday for church. He was going to preach but needed a bible. The first bible he found was Monty’s Greek bible. He very quickly decided that it was NOT what he needed to be reading from…”This isn’t in English!”