GUILTY AS CHARGED!!

According to the Ukraine government, we are not fit parents to have 2 children; we must have more!!! So, the court granted our request to adoptAlexis. We now have to wait 10 days for any appeals (a formality) and then she's all ours.









It was a great morning in court, followed by some excitement in the afternoon.











We went on a sight-seeing tour and got in some trouble. We stopped to look at some old locks, the kind used for boats to navigate between 2 bodies of water that do not have the same water level.

We jumped over a small wall (3 ft or so) and walked down to get a closer look with our guide. Stephen took some photos and shot a short video. When we returned back to the wall, we were greeted by a yelling and irate military police person. He took Stephen's passport and refused to give it back. We had to follow him to a building, which we later found out was a former KGB office. Someone important there listened to our innocent story (as told by our guide). He had Stephen delete the photos and video, returned Stephen's passport, and told us he was letting us go because we were in the country doing the humane act of adopting a child.


Whew!! That was interesting, exciting, and a bunch of other things, especially for the 20 minutes or so that Stephen was no longer in possession of his passport.








Back to Alexis... We've determined that all her plumbing works. We fed her vegetable baby food one day, which she promptly threw up along with her breakfast. A couple of days ago, we gave her apple juice, and she proceeded to have 2 "blow-out" diapers. For you Pampers-challenged people, that's a diaper with stuff coming out the side. And we finally got to change her diaper because she wet it. Like we said, the plumbing checks out.