Sent it off...

Well we have sent the letter to the kids along with a few pictures from our visit. Our agency is going to have a courier (family) carry the letter to Vladivostok and have the office there mail it to the orphanage to the kids. Hopefully they will have it in a week or so. We are working on some of the final paperwork we need to complete for court so that everything is ready when we arrive back in Vladivostok in July (we hope). One of the things we had to do was to sign our Court Petition which is the document requesting that Russia allows us to adopt the kids. This document came from the agency and included some details that we previously did not know about. Specifically The names and birthdates of the kids immediate family members as well as their fathers date of passing. We found out that their father passed away about 3 weeks before I. was born. This document also is the first one that hold the kids "new" names. We have decided to make some changes to their names. We have given them our middle names and have changed I's name to an American derivative. Although we think we will continue to call him by his Russian "nickname" until he gets used to his new name. K's first name we really liked and since it is already "Americanized" in its Russian form, she will keep it. Well thats it for now...