For those who are betting...it is a 6 year old boy

Okay, I just had to throw the title in for the bets. Anyway, we have selected a 6 year old boy from the region of Donetsk. In fact, the psychologist(at the adoption center) had spoken with the Director of the Orphanage that morning and he/she said that he was a very nice boy who was very smart and really liked to learn. Hummm, bingo! No really...we were shown 5 files. 4 of the files were boys ranging from 4-6 and one was a 4 year old girl. The girl was a leader and liked to give direction (nope, we already have one leader and home), one boy might have Hep-C, the other two boys were 4 years old and blond. This boy is brunette and favors David.

The people at the adoption center were very, very nice. In fact, everyone we have encountered on our trip has been very kind. Life is good. The Donetsk region (Marispol is the city) is very far away near the sea. It is 24 hours by train and only 1 hour by plane. Our translator is working to figure out what we should do to make this trip as fast as possible.

Thank you all for all your prayers and thoughts. Thanks for sending your comments as well. David and I are starting to speak broken English to each other since we find ourselves constantly trying to explain that Kentucky lingo to our translator.

We will let you know more when we get to our region.

Love to all,

Carol and David