First Days at the Orphanage!

Our first visit to the orphanage was on Wednesday morning at 10am. There are lots of beautiful children to pick from. We spent the morning playing with children and getting medical information for those we were interested in. The morning was pretty emotional. They say very rarely do parents pick the same children. Wouldn't you know that would happen to us! After lots of prayers we felt that Anya wasn't meant for us and went to our new friend Aspa from Philly.

During our morning visit Larisa, she's our facilitor, mentioned that hey had twins available and offered to show them to us (Xenia and Sophia). Given the lateness of the morning, we only got to spend a few minutes with them but asked if we could see them again that afternoon along with another child named Olga. By the time, we got back to the orphanage that afternoon we had decided that we would just play with the twins. The twins are beautiful Russian girls with blonde hair and blue eyes. When we got back to the appartment that night I felt like something was missing but decided we should spend another day with the twins.

We spent today with the twins and I still feel like something isn't quite right. We're going to ask if it would be possible to see a couple more children tomorrow. There's one child that really stuck out today in the baby room and we feel like we better ask before we settle 100% on the twins (this baby has dark hair). We'll see what tomorrow brings.