Not much to report

Not too much going on right now. Since our Bonding Period has ended, we are still able to visit with D everyday and are having a fun time! We do a lot of the same everyday and I’m sure it doesn’t make for fun reading! He can pretty much count to 10 in English on his own now and is saying new words every day. He’s pretty decent at please, thank you, candy, bubbles, good morning, bye, Spiderman and today he really worked at how are you. My parents have found out that the elementary school in our neighborhood is the ESL school for our area and we are really happy about that! There is a summer school program this summer that we hope he can attend – if we can get him back to the States in time!!


Still waiting for our high speed internet…the apartment owner checks on it everyday for us, but the telecom company here is slow. Tomorrow afternoon we are going to go on a tour of the Russian Orthodox Church as well as the Catholic Church here in Pavlodar. Should be interesting and we are looking forward to an afternoon out!

On the paperwork front, our home study letter with the age range increase is on its way and it should leave the US on Tuesday or Wednesday. Our in-country coordinator is going to start working with the judge and our court process this week. Hoping that our home study letter will work in lieu of an actual update and we should know by end of week.

Hope to have some great pics to post tomorrow!

--The Stone’s