Journey To Sara

Hello Everyone! Welcome to our Blog! I'm Gina & my hubby is Philip. We have 3 bio children and we are thrilled to be in our first adoption journey to Ukraine to find our little Sara. I truly believe this is a call from God and look forward to traveling with HIM on our side. We feel very grateful to be given the honour of adopting a child into our family. It has been simply amazing!! Please enjoy as you join us on our journey to Sara.......

Sunday, April 09, 2006

She has started to attach!!!!

Hi everyone!
Thankyou for all your comments. I wish I could post some pictures of Nastya on our blog. I'was only able to send a few pictures to our family. We should be able to post pictures at the end of this week. Tommorrow our facilitator is supposed to receive a phone call confirming that our court date is Tuesday. Hopefully it will be Tuesday so it will be over and the 10 day wait will begin. He also received the papers that were looked at by the NAC via our facilitator in Kiev. It was sent by train. This gives us permission to go ahead with court and to go ahead without anyone present from the NAC. We also got the application to fill out for permanent residency in Canada. There is an extra form attached with Nastya's picture on it. It is a form that the doctor has to fill out, basically stating that she is healthy enough to fit the Canadian medical standards in order for her to enter Canada.
We are having a great time with our facilitator. We always try to have a good time whatever we are doing, which makes it hard to feel stressed. We couldn't have asked for a better facilitator. Last night we watched one of our many movies (Transporter #2) together. Maybe tonight we will go to this restaurant that has an attached bowling alley! I couldn't believe there is a ten-pin bowling alley here! We plan on having a few games. Our driver Leo will also join us. We'll see how it goes!
Today we had a good day with Nastya. She no longer cries when she see's us. Today she ran into our arms screaming "mamma, papa!". At the same time we heard all her groupa screaming, mamma, mamma!! and looking through the glass on the door. Many times we have gotten big hugs from the kids in her groupa. The only difference now is that Nastya gets upset and jealous. She screams, "Moy mamma ee papa"! (My mamma ee papa!) It really feels great to see her do this. Phil and I are just beaming and the care-givers are giving us their "thumbs-up". Today when we were bringing her back she would repeat, nye groupa, nye groupa, nye groupa! (no groupa!) Philip was trying to put all the stuffed animals back into the big bag and Nastya said a big NYET! (no!) and dumped everything back onto the floor! Eventually she let us bring her back. We are so happy that she loves to be with us. Her crying was actually a very good sign that their will be a good attachment with us. The crying is apparently a sign that she is attached to her care-giver which in turn means she will eventually have a good attachment with us. We can't wait to come to our 3 other kids at home. We are dreaming of the day when we are together in a total of 6!
Hugs & Kisses to all........until next time............

7 Comments:

  • At 1:15 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Gina! I hope I am doing this correctly- I am so happy for you guys! I think our court date is Tuesday also. Looks like we're both on the same time frame! Sounds like things are progressing for you and your DH, that's wonderful! Talk to you soon!
    Jeanine

     
  • At 9:32 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    hi gi
    i know the kids will be so happy to see mommy & daddy & their new little sister.They are doing so great & that is because of all the love that you's give them. Nastya will be welcomed so well & it sounds like she won't get too overwhelmed I think she'll soak up all the love!
    miss you lots
    love
    gio silvo & samantha
    xoxo

     
  • At 9:04 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Gina and Filipo,

    Just letting you know that we the kids over the weekend. We had a great time with the kids. We went to the Rainforest Cafe in Yorkdale for dinner on Saturday night. The kids really enjoyed the atomsphere there. After we went to rent a movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and we brought lots of junk food for all. We woke up and had breakfast and then we had to take the girls for their swimming lessons and then we had lunch at Wendy's. The kids were very well mannered, lots of thankyou's and please. It was fun!!

    We hope things are doing well. We saw pictures of Nastya. She is so beautiful and actually resembles Marina with her hair colour. Can't wait to meet her.

    Love Ralph, Linda, Krizia, and Chantelle

     
  • At 9:30 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Zii, saw the pictures of Sara she is so beautiful, Its incretable how much she looks like your family. No promblem fitting in with all of us. I was talking with Avelia yeaturday, and we were saying that Angelica, Daniel and Sara will have so much together because they are all the same age. Can't wait to meet my new little cousin Sara. Anyway it sounds like you guys are doing well, keeping busy and stress free, which is very good. Love ya lots, see you soon!

    Love,

    Marino, Tonia, Daniel & Matteo

     
  • At 10:10 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi Zia.G,Zio.Filippo and Sara Nastya!!! Hope all of you are doing great...Love reading your blog's with the great news that Sara is really getting attached to you both!...It was only a matter of time, i said it before and i'll say it again you are all blessed to have found eachother...Tonia is right the kids will have great fun playing together and getting to know eachother...so hurry home guys!!

    All our Love,
    Hugs and Kisses too,
    Angelo, Avelia and Angelica! :)

     
  • At 10:39 a.m., Blogger Living Life with Sophia said…

    Hi Gina and Phil
    Congratulations. I so happy things are working out well. I saw pictures of Sara. Wow !! that is all I can say. She is perfect! See you when you get home
    Love
    Les, Patricia, Raffael & Michael

     
  • At 7:56 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said…

    hi guys

    Sounds like you's guys are having a great time. Your little girl seems like a perfect match. I just found your web site today and read everthing, she sound like a beautiful little girl. Now Stephanie wants to adopte, i am thinking she can just go live with yous. Richard just let for Kent. this morning will be back Fri. Is Sarah going to like the trailer park, will all the other kids be able to keep up with her, she will have a great time there. I seen your parents the other day a Zehrs they were so proud of yous, your father said Sarah looks just like her grandmother. Is it possible for her to be spoiled even before she gets here??? I got to go and get ready for work.
    Take care, be safe, have fun and see yous soon.

    Luv Kathy, Richard and Kids

     

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