In an effort to finish getting this journal onto the website, I’m going to dispense with pictures for now.  We have a new adoption journey to start writing about! Sunday, Sept 2, 10:30am Well, yesterday Luke slept 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours in the afternoon.  I think he is making up for […]

Matt in our room.  A nice room. August 30, 2007  Moscow 9:40pm.  Back in the room we had bread, cheese, salami and wine for dinner.  Ilyusha had oatmeal cereal, tagliatelle cream pasta with broccoli (Russian baby food) and apple-mango with curd cheese.  Mmm. Yummy.  He eats well.  I’m sitting here at the desk looking out […]

This is my favorite picture of Matt in Russia.  Perplexed by the menu. Tuesday night, August 28th, 2007 Andrei came by at 6pm tonight.  He gave us Ilya’s new Russian passport with his new name on it in Russian.  Ilya Neyl Devis. I guess that is how they spell it in Russia.  That was exciting. […]

Exterior of the Russian Courthouse Dear Friends and Family, Thanks so much for the emails. It is comforting to stay connected like this when on the other side of the world. Sleep Is Quite Difficult Last night we were all tired early.  No one took a nap.  Matt went to sleep about 7:30pm and Emma […]