Sorry Everybody

Hi everyone!
Sorry for the long time between posts. I would love to say that we've been busy, but that's not true, so we don't really have an excuse for not posting ;-).

Isaac has been doing great this past week. He's really teething and he's enjoying being mobile. He wants to do EVERYTHING everyone else is doing. He's cute.

He's continued to bond with us...everyday we come in, when we're putting new clothes on him, he smiles up a storm and talks to us like crazy...blah blah blah, dada, blah blah blah (pretty much exactly). One day, his teeth were hurting real bad so he started to suck in air through his lips and then proceed to make a spitting noise (really, pass-gassing noise) with his mouth. I laughed, and then I did it for him and now every time I do it, he does it too...it's so funny! Sonia, our translator thinks it's hysterical.

Here comes the date that we've all been praying for, for such a long time!! This coming Wednesday in the morning, we will have court (your Tuesday evening). The judge will ask us some questions about our home and our family, and our income, and our reasoning for adopting (all of which we've already answered for them a thousand time, but it's a formality, so we have to do it). Pray that God will give me (Jon - I get to answer the questions because I'm the man of the household) clarity of mind and speech and that He would help me say things clearly and properly. We're an open book...we've got nothing to hide.

Either we're going to have a 15-day waiting period, which we will travel home for, OR, they will decree the adoption Wednesday, and we will have to wait until we get his paperwork (birth certificate and passport), and then we will travel to Almaty for meetings with the US Embassy and then we will travel home.

USUALLY, the norm is to impose the 15-day appeal period for family to come back, BUT, as far as WE can see it, this is not a normal case because mom is not even in the picture because she lied about her name and her address so they can't find her...SO, you never know what God's going to do. You all know what we're praying for and I know that you all have prayed for it too, but we are definitely ok with whatever God decides to do...If we come home, we'll be coming back within 21 days...it will be long, but if it's necessary, it's necessary! We've waited this long, what's 21 more days...BUT for Isaac's sake, we hope we can bring him home this trip so that he doesn't have to go 21 days without seeing us...perhaps he would lose some trust that we've built.

We love you all, and we can tell that you are praying...thank you!
Jon and Kristin