The paper work was filed and

We went to visit the children when our translator was called into the Directors office. Turns out that while Anya's birth family wanted nothing to do with her... she did have a very special lady in her life. We refer to this wonderful lady as Anya's Fairy Godmother - since she had to be sent by God to give this girl the opportunity at life. Her name is Viktorjya Davydova - we call her Aunt Vika.

It was this woman who made sure that Anya got all the care and support she needed once she stumbled upon her sad existance. It was Vika who made sure that Anya was placed where she would have an opportunity to become adopted. It was Vika who was Anya's driving force. It was also Vika who wanted to meet the family who wanted to make Anya a part of their family and move her half way around the globe.

Now - one of the reasons I felt so strongly about international adoption was because you don't have to deal with the birth family so very often. But here we were, faced with meeting the closest thing to a caring family member that Anya had. There was no question, yes we would meet her. Still I was nervous. What would this person think of us. Would she want to challenge the adoption since we would be taking her to America? I was worried - not just about these things, but what would I say to her. It would be a the next day before we would meet her, so I had some time to ponder on these thoughts. In the meantime we got to gather our babies as we now called them and take and play with them. We played hard, read books, played quietly, played tag, and just experienced all this through their eyes. It was amazing.

Our sweet Benjamin didn't walk unassisted yet - but you could tell when his face would light up and his steps got more confident tha it would be a matter of time... His grip was very strong - and he loved cookies - we had brought Animal crackers with us for the trip and had they forbade us from feeding them to him while he was still in the care of the orphanage - then he would have doubled his weight in animal crackers.

Anya wasn't real sure about another child in the picture, but she quickly learned to enjoy his company... her big thing was she learned she could walk... errr... I mean RUN the corridors and we would just follow her... it made her giggle so much, that we'd laugh until our bellies hurt... Such a funny little imp.... and she looked like us.... Got had known for all those years of infertility and trying to have children of our own, that we had two special angels waiting for us. Mama just needed to get past the need to be pregnant. Parenthood is way more fun! :)