Wednesday, June 17th 2:35pm

Last night was a rough night. We were jet lagged and weighed down with a decision before us. There were 2 children we were considering. The child with a medical problem left us with a lot of unanswered questions, and there was the other who was being visited by a local family. After discussion and some thought, we started to feel we could not accept the child with a medical problem. It is heartbreaking to think about turning down such a cutie. I hope that there might be other children, perhaps, older that might be available for adoption.

I was also missing the girls terribly since we had not spoken to them since we arrived. We finally were able to video skype them this morning (evening in California). It was so nice to see them, they were missing us too.

This morning when we met Tatyana in the lobby, we told her our decision. She said we would have to wait till this afternoon as the local family would be going to visit the 3rd child we saw. She introduced us to another AP who she was working with and was staying in the same hotel. She and her mother have to wait as well for appointments and such. We went to the TSUM stores with them and at the top of the building are vendors selling Kazak and Russian souvenirs. We ended up buying 2 cute purses for the girls. Afterwards we had lunch at a Venezia restaurant and had pizza again. It was a really nice diversion to spend time with them and take our minds off this process for a short time.

Now we are back in the hotel resting…who am I kidding, there is so much going through my head, I can hardly sleep. We are waiting to hear back from Tatyana.

6:20pm
We still haven’t heard back from Tatyana.

A while later
Tatyana called us to tell us the local family decided to adopt baby #3. She told us there were no more children available and I told her we would consider an older child up to 2 1/2 as we have a 4 year old.

Needless to say, it was a rough night that night.

June 17th, about 3am

I woke up a while ago and couldn’t go back to sleep, must be jet lag. I’m feeling a bit distraught about decisions we will have to make. I’m also really missing the girls and want to talk to them. We haven’t talked with them since we left Sunday morning.