In the spring of 2009 we flew half way around the world to adopt a little girl in the city of Petropavlovsk in northern Kazakhstan. This blog chronicles our experiences in bringing her home. We wrote it both to keep those at home up to date on our progress and also to provide help and perspective to those who might follow behind us on the same adventure. Hopefully it accomplishes both goals.
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Introducing Darya
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 4 commentsWe’ve been visiting the baby house for a few days doing our “bonding” with our to-be new daughter. So here is the first picture of Darya (we are still discussing a name change when we file the official paperwork with the court next week…more to come on that front).
She is 14 months old and has been at the baby house for about a year.
The process from this point forward for those who are not familiar with how Kazakstan adoptions work is that we spend 2 hours a day with her for 14 days and then our dossier is submitted to the court. Approximately 10 days later we get a court date and the judge makes a final decision on the adoption. Assuming it is granted, there is then a two week waiting period for any final objections to be raised and five days for paperwork with the Kazakstan government and the US government. Then she can come home.
It is a long, involved and rather frustrating process but you just need to suffer through it.
I’ll post a gallery of photos in a couple of days.
4 responses to “Introducing Darya”
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Chris / Heather -Darya is a cutie!
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Margot April 2nd, 2009 at 15:11
Yay! Have she and Sam gotten to play together yet?
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Chris April 2nd, 2009 at 18:16
Unfortunately not. It would seem that getting permission for Sam to visit the baby house takes an act of parliament. They are really controlling when it comes to who gets in and under what circumstances. We’ve been told that we might be able to have her visit towards the end of the bonding period so perhaps next week.
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Colin April 2nd, 2009 at 18:35
Very cute.
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