One more day....

We only get one more day with the boys. We have had a great time with them.

We are still planning on our court date for Dec 27th. We're more and more sure that it will happen then. We have begun the process to change our tickets out of Moscow for the 29th.(we are told that flights are already completely full on the 29th, so we will have to see when we'll be able to get home)

Please pray that this(court) will all happen as planned as changing our flight tickets continues to be quite expensive.

We continue to be able to spend a lot of time with the boys, they begin to go a little stir crazy in the hotel room with 4 toy cars, animal magnets, two coloring books and a bag of bendaroos (thanks Julie!) and a language barrier. It really is amazing that we have had as few meltdowns as we have. They have a cry and get lots of love and hugs and are back to playing. Alik always wants to look at pictures on the camera after he has had a cry.

Today we also played with the adult size robes, a 4 liter water bottle, and then the genius idea of bath time for a couple of boys who normally only get a sponge bath. A bathtub with three empty water bottles = two VERY happy little boys. They were prunes but did not want to get out of the tub. We got Alik to close his eyes when we washed his hair, Misha didn't want to, but even with limited verbal communication skills, we were able to get Alik to help show/tell Misha how to close his eyes.

Yesterday and today we went to a mall here that has a play area for the kids. They thouroughly enjoyed that time and were able to work out plenty of energy.

We got snow here yesterday. Clearing the roads and sidewalks is nothing like at home. The sidewalks stay pretty slick and coated in a layer of ice.

Tommorrow will be our hardest day as we have to say goodbye (hopefully only for a couple of weeks).

We will miss Christmas with our families, but our family and friends are in our thoughts and prayers as we go through this unique Christmas season.

Merry Christmas.