some happy Artiom Pictures

Playing trains with his brother....

He's a happy little guy playing on the floor....

such a nice smile...

He's just a little joy to have around....

GREEN WITH ENVY....

Can you believe this????????

Man, she TOTALLY got me back for the llama stuff.

Payback stinks!

***for those of you who don't know, this is my friend Kristin who is in 'my special country' right now, with MY Alexander....

Kissing MY Alexander.....

And rubbing it in my face....

And do you see that silly grin on HIS face....

Ugh.

Her blog is the 'seeing the upside of down' one that is on my previous post. :) :)

The Miracle of Adoption...

I was going to put a new post on here today until I read these the latest post on these two blogs....anything I would put on just seems so.....I don't know....uninspiring compared to these. Take a minute or two and read these ...... it's truly what its all about.

http://seeingtheupsideofdown.blogspot.com/

and

http://www.nogreaterjoymom.com/

Oh how life can change....

In two short months Artioms life went from this

To this......

Life is goooood :)

My friend Kristin is traveling tomorrow to 'my special country' to bring home their sweet little girl. She has this 'thing' for llama's, so i'm going to give her a fitting send off..... This is Kristin, BEFORE going to 'my special country', all beautiful like...you can't tell in the picture, but she's wearing awesome shoes.....

This is Kristin getting off the plane after a 12 hour flight.....

This is what Kristin wants to ride on out in the country..... at Rambo's house.

This is Kristin getting assimilated into the culture...

This is Kristin when Alexander tells her he likes Yula more......

This is what she is bringing to give her sweet little girl........

and in response to our earlier conversation...that you are going to lure away my sweet Alexander with those darn shoes of yours....this is my 'adios' to my friend Kristin ;)

he heee he.

Wow, that was a VERY long day. I'm not even sure what we got accomplished. Except more appointments.

What I am thinking about tonight is covenant loans for adoptions. But I don't know much about it, I've looked some stuff up about it, and still don't know much about it.....another brain fog day here.

Do any of you know anything about these loans? Like you can borrow the amount of the adoption or close to it, and then pay it back with the tax refund and employer credit? That would be awesome to find something like that. Does it exist....Yes? No?

PLEASE...share your knowledge with me :)

Appointments start today

Artioms appointments start today in Minneapolis. I don't have anyone to watch the other kids so everyone has to come. I also don't drive in the city, so my oldest son is driving us all down there. I don't feel good today mentally or physically, so I'm not looking forward to it.

I don't think we're going to be able to bring the little boy home that I had my heart set on. We just don't know where the money is going to come from and some doors have been closed and there aren't any new ones opening.....where they money is concerned.

Rich has been totally stressed out thinking about all this and not wanting to let me down and especially not wanting to let this little boy down.

But he just doesn't see any other way.