We’ve had some really fun visits with Ana the past few days. Seems she is feeling better, she is still congested a little but maybe her bronchitis has been mostly taken care of with the meds they gave her. She is giving us more in the way of interaction and smiles all the time, which is great.
Only real news to report is our court date. We found out yesterday that our first court date is July 9. This is good news, as it should allow us to keep our original airline schedule for return flights, etc. So the plan at present is to leave Ust on July 9 after the court hearing, spend July 10 in Almaty, then leave for USA at 3:20am on Friday July 11, putting us back in Chicago by 10:30 or so local time (connect in Frankfurt), then a couple hours to Milwaukee via car and HOME.
We are really looking forward to home, except of course it is getting harder to think about leaving Ana for a month. But we’ll make it and provided everything goes as expected, we hope to finalize this sometime in mid-August.
Also – we’ve said it before, but it has been so great to have many other wonderful families here going through what we are experiencing, it is a necessary support group. Thanks to everyone for their help during this process.
More pictures below, enjoy. The one with me & Matthew is haircut day. I convinced Allison to cut my hair rather than try & figure out a barber, and Matthew wanted to help. So Allison duct taped some paper strips on a grapefruit and Matthew had a great time cutting "Mr. grapefruit daddy's" hair. Also there is a picture of Matthew sleeping in his "cozy bed" here, he likes it when we push together the two armchairs & then put a comforter & blankets in there for him.
-The Byrne Family
Only real news to report is our court date. We found out yesterday that our first court date is July 9. This is good news, as it should allow us to keep our original airline schedule for return flights, etc. So the plan at present is to leave Ust on July 9 after the court hearing, spend July 10 in Almaty, then leave for USA at 3:20am on Friday July 11, putting us back in Chicago by 10:30 or so local time (connect in Frankfurt), then a couple hours to Milwaukee via car and HOME.
We are really looking forward to home, except of course it is getting harder to think about leaving Ana for a month. But we’ll make it and provided everything goes as expected, we hope to finalize this sometime in mid-August.
Also – we’ve said it before, but it has been so great to have many other wonderful families here going through what we are experiencing, it is a necessary support group. Thanks to everyone for their help during this process.
More pictures below, enjoy. The one with me & Matthew is haircut day. I convinced Allison to cut my hair rather than try & figure out a barber, and Matthew wanted to help. So Allison duct taped some paper strips on a grapefruit and Matthew had a great time cutting "Mr. grapefruit daddy's" hair. Also there is a picture of Matthew sleeping in his "cozy bed" here, he likes it when we push together the two armchairs & then put a comforter & blankets in there for him.
-The Byrne Family
5 comments:
Thanks for the pictures. Ana is such a cutie. Glad to hear that she is feeling better. Thanks for keeping us updated. We are thinking about you and praying for you.
Leslie
Wow. That's great news about the court date. I bet you are so looking forward to being back home, though I'm sure it will be so hard leaving Ana. It sounds like the process is moving forward, however. We're continuing to pray for you. I'm so enjoying the pictures. Ana is beautiful.
Bridget
I just found your blog--Allison is so beautiful. Glad to hear that all is going well in Kaz.
I am a future mother waiting for my travel to Kaz-it is fun to read successful stories like yours.
Correction--although Allison is quite pretty, I meant to say that Ana is so beautiful! :-)
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