Keeps getting better

Ok let me start by saying I love Ukraine! Our day started at 4:00am, we had breakfast at 6:30am, then left the hotel at 7:00am. Olga picked us up and took us to the Minors Affairs Service where we met with the head inspector. During the meeting she asked us a lot of questions pertaining to children. What made is want to adopt, how did we meet Alina, how do we feel about Alina's condition, are we still interested in adopting her knowing that her condition is serious and so on. We answered honestly of coarse. We told her we love Alina and we will take care of her and as soon as we return home with Alina we will get her to the doctors, she said she would be interested in know what the doctors in America say. She feels American doctors are very good. We were in her office and talked for about an hour. At the end she said that she liked David and I very much. She feels that we are very good people and admires us for still wanting to take Alina in spite of not knowing what her condition is. We said she is our child and we won't turn our back on her. she told us of the apartment that Alina has and said we needed to decide what we wanted to do with it and she told us Alina has some money in a bank account but she doesn't know how much. We said we would talk to Alina on both accounts and see what she wants to do since these things belong to her! She gave us the approval to go to the hospital to see Alina, and her assistant went with us for her observation. We went in to the hospital and Alina came running out and gave us the welcome we had hoped for! She looks really good. Her face is back to normal and her speech is much better. Our little girl was very happy to see us! We hugged a lot and cried. She was sharing a room with about 7 other children whom she was so proud to introduce her parents to. Then before I knew it the assistant inspector pulled out some plain paper spoke to Alina in russian and Alina began to write. I asked Olga what was going on, she said Alina was giving us permission to adopt her! So long story short they gave their consent for adoption! How great is that! We did speak with the doctor and she said Alina had something a wrong with her muscels and would have to take medication for a long time, but her condition is cure able. We had to say goodbye to Alina because we had other paperwork to be done. So we went to her orphanage to get the paperwork done there. The director won't be there until monday so the social worker will do the paperwork and have the director sign them and Olga will pick them up on monday have them notarized and go to court to get a court date. So hopefully this will all be done on monday so Tuesday we can head of to see Tonya. Alina should return to her orphanage on Tuesday. So this is good news! We then went to have some lunch and David and I are now back in our hotel room. It is only 2:00pm so we will just relax for the rest of the day. Tomorrow we will get moved to an apartment, then I don't know right now what we will do for the weekend. Olga hopefully will do something with us. Maybe we will visit Alina again this weekend. So that's all to report for now. Today was another successful day. Thank you for your continued prayers. God Bless! The Quinnams
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