SUCCESS!!

We are parents again. We had court today and it was long. After two hours of a grueling court session where talked, the prosecutor asked questions; the social worker spoke, the prosecutor asked questions and then the judge asked questions; the judge then read aloud just about every page of our dossier. The judge asked if anyone had anything further to add and mercifully no one did. She left for 2-3 minutes and came back with a fully typed proclamation declaring us the parents of Annabelle Victoria. Indeed the courts of Moscow have ruled us fit parents again. This court session was much longer then expected and Jeff had to make a short speech. After about 90 minutes of the painful process, Maria requested an epidural but they said no we were to far along for drugs. After court, we reviewed our trip three schedule in detail for 90 more minutes and then spent another 90 minutes at a notary getting one document for power of attorney completed.

Fortunately, since it is Cinco de Mayo we are going out to celebrate. We started out a little rough this morning when we found out that the main road was going to be shut down at 8:00am for another tank/weapons rehearsal for Victory day (May 9) so our driver couldn’t get to the hotel. (Nice) We had to walk a couple of blocks but found him.

In the end, Annabelle will be ours and we are coming home tomorrow and Annabelle will be home with us on May 28th.