Cole Michael Parkinson

Court is complete and we are officially new parents (for the 3rd time) of our son, Cole Michael Parkinson. He will be 7 on July 1, 2005. We began this process at the start of Oct. 2004, and now 9 months later.....a 7 year old boy! Court was very UNEVENTFUL....outside of Sergei trying to get me to sit in the criminal cage in the court room (I almost fell for it...if he wouldn't have laughed.) The rest of the day was spent running here and there to make everthing official, etc. We still do not have Cole, as he is still up at camp. We will pick him up tomorrow, and fly out to Kiev tomorrow afternoon/evening.

JP

Hello!  We are so excited to be finished with court and on our way to being finished with this process.  We can't wait to go get Cole tomorrow.  Today we had court with the other family we met from New Mexico that is adopting 2 siblings.  It was priceless to see the look on their daughters face when they picked her up to take her home from the orphanage.  She had all of her new clothes on and was beaming a smile from ear to ear!  I know Cole will be the same way when we pick him up tomorrow.  We are so gratefull to Sergei and Oleg's team for working so hard and fast to get us through all of this.  Today is our 2nd week here and we can't believe it will be our last.  Tonight will probably be our last night without any kids for a veeeerrrryy long time!  Although I am really happy that we are going to be home with our girls again soon.  It will be a great feeling to be at home with the girls and getting everyone adjusted to our extended family!  Mom and all the family-we will keep you posted about when we plan to fly home. 

Love ya - Summer