Accepting the Referral

So Joe and I discussed the options in length and the doctors all had the same concerns for the children, their head circumference. Now there are tons of growth charts out there to evaluate how your child's head should be growing with their weight, height, etc. there are American charts, Russian Charts, Asian Charts, etc..... Search the internet and the huge blogs of information and you will find what you are looking for.
But somewhere deep inside of us something was telling Joe and me to just travel and see these kids. We knew we had to see fore ourselves. We would not be jaded and we would keep an open mind, but we decided to travel and take a doctor from a Moscow Pedatric hospital with us to the orphange. Once we got the orphange we would receive much more extensive medical information and our independant doctor would be able to speak to the orphange doctor. Again, more of an expense, but you need this information in order to fully make an informed decision about your choice. Remember, this is forever - no give backsies.

So now we wait--again. Our dossier was transferred from Tver over to Ekaterinburg and a few documents went missing (go figure), so we had to re do them and get them off to Michalina right away. She wanted our dossier in region by the end of the week fo we could be registered. Once rgistered in your region then Olga, our facilitator in Russia, would work with the orphange on getting us travel dates.

Looks like we might be spending Christmas in Russia.....talk about a white Christmas !