We are trying to get Benjamin ready for the addition of two little girls, but he's not really getting the concept. Things have been a bit crazy as we finished up our dossier and sent it to our agency. We thought it would take them awhile to finish up a few more documents and then send it on to Russia. But surprise, surprise, the coordinator in Russia asked them to rush our dossier last week. So we are anxiously awaiting travel dates. This all sounds wonderful, except we do not have the money we need. Please be praying for us!


To give you an idea, our dossier was huge. Because we are adopting two unrelated children, we had to complete 4 separate dossiers, two per child. Each piece had to be notarized and apostilled. There were 43 separate documents in each dossier.


We received another great surprise this week. After being told we would not receive pictures of little Yelena, they sneaked us two pictures that were taken of her last week. We plan to name her Abby and as such, have taught Ben her name. He will be happy to show you the picture of Abby if you see him.