Going to the Orphanage for the 1st time

Hi Everyone,

Sorry it's been a few days since the last update. It was incredibly busy yesterday and today. Here's what's happened:

We took a 6 hour Express train from Kiev to Dnipropetrovsk then took a taxi to Dniprodzerzhinsk and we went straight to the Inspector's office. She oversees all the adoptions in this region and we need her OK to go to the orphanage- which we received in about 20 minutes. Back into the taxi and off to the orphanage. Here we needed to see the Director; had a short question/answer session, then we went up to talk with their pediatrician and then their current doctor. The boys were born premature and had a rough start in life, but they are absolutely healthy today. They're fighters the both of them!! While we were getting their medical history in they walked holding hands w/their caregiver. I DIDN'T CRY LIKE EVERYONE THOUGHT I WOULD...(tears came later). Daniel & Yevgen hopefully soon to be Brady & Lucas came right over and gave "Mamma & Pappa" hugs. They are 2 years and 9 months old and they will turn 3 on August 30. Yes another (2) August birthdays on the Donahue side!! They both have brown hair and blue, blue, blue eyes. Daniel's hair sticks up in the front and Yevgen has a bowl cut. They are cute as can be. They were pretty serious at first, but by the time we left them an hour later they were all smiles. Daniel is about 3" taller than Yevgen & they both have "potbellies" like Chris- haha...
We can visit the boys daily from 10-11:30 and 4-6pm and we plan to take full advantage of that time.

That's it for yesterday- here's Chris with todays adventure...