Gotcha Day!!!

Vanya's Gotcha Day was Wednesday, July 6th. We had been told we would pick him up in the afternoon but, as things turned out we picked him up in the morning. We were so confused. We thought we were just going to get him to have passport photos done. When we got there, they took us to our usual visiting room and brought Vanya in. We were perplexed. I tried to call our translator to get her to talk with the orphanage staff about what we were supposed to be doing. However, as luck would have it, I couldn't call out on my cell phone. Turns out that one of the many text messages I had received in Russian was informing me that we were out of minutes on our phone. Eventually, some one comes in and says we are waiting on our lawyer. When Natasha arrives, we find out that we were going to bust him out for good and then go get his passport photos done. I waited at the orphanage with Vanya while Andy and Natasha went to the bank to close out Vanya's account. While they were gone, I took off Vanya's pink footy PJ's and got him dressed in BOY CLOTHES. YAY!! No more pink for my little man. Then he fell asleep. So, in his Gotcha photo, he is asleep. It was raining, so no photos walking out the gate.

Then it was off to get the passport photos. This was quite humorous. Natasha was holding Vanya and we were behind the cameraman trying to get Vanya to look in the right direction. The orphanage gave us a list of what Vanya is used to eating, so we stopped at the baby store and Nick helped Andy pick out the right formula and then we headed home. Vanya was DONE by this point and he wanted his bottle and a nap. So, that's what we did. While Vanya was napping, Andy went out to get our last pizza in Kirovograd.