TODAY IS ANOTHER MILESTONE IN THE COMING HOME PROCESS!

Today is the day that we will ride the overnight train to Kiev. We will visit the medical center for the boys to have their exams and then on to the embassy for visas to come home. Oksana says that sometimes they will do the paperwork in one day if it is a rush but it mostly takes two days. We should be finished there on Friday in time to take our Saturday morning flights back to America. We still don't have official word that their passports are going to be ready today. They may not actually arrive. Keep praying for them to actually be there after lunch. My fingers are crossed and my prayers are going up because we bought the train tickets to Kiev last night. We hope we don't have to cancel them and buy more.
More about the boys....last night and yesterday afternoon went well. They went to sleep when they were supposed to and ate well. We took them back to the pizza place for dinner because Oksana said we needed to see if they would play. We later found out that she wanted to leave us there while she went to get the train tickets. We told her that they probably still wouldn't play but she wouldn't listen. GQ balled like a baby the entire time we were there after eating. He wanted to go home and we had no way to get there because Oksana took our cab to the train station. It was pitiful. All Blue Eyes wanted to do was walk around the mall holding my hand. So that is what we did. All four of us walked around and GQ balled the entire time. It was abosultely gut wrenching. I hated it for him but there was nothing I could do.
They awoke this morning at 7am. It was another good nights sleep for Left Brain and I because they slept all through the night. YAY!
We have already had breakfast and Left Brain had his shower while I wrangled them after breakfast. He is planning to take them outside for quite a while so that I can pack the suitcases and clean the apartment. Then it will be off to town to find GQ some more pants...somehow he ended up with fewer outfits than Blue Eyes and needs some more clothes. We are going to try to eat at McDonald's for lunch to see how they like it. Blue Eyes won't eat anything unless it is room temperature...if it is cold at all or warm at all he won't even touch it. It's ridiculous but we are dealing with it. So, we will see how that goes. We also have to go and pay the lady we rented the apartment from. Today will be a day of a lot of running around...which the kids, as you read before, aren't fond of. Please pray for that...and especially for GQ because he is still deathly afraid of the traveling to America. He's been throwing fits all morning because today is the day. He knows and is already scared.
We may not have internet after today. This may be the last post that you get until we get home. I will try in Kiev...but who knows. Just so you all know...our flight leaves Kiev at 6:45am on Saturday morning (Ukrainian time) and it arrives in Memphis at 5:20pm (US time). We should be home around 9pm. FINALLY! It will actually feel like 4am for us and the kids...so please no calls or visits on Sunday. We will need the rest. I will post on the blog on Sunday to let you all know how we made it. I will also send an email from my phone to let everyone know we landed ok.
I hope you all are doing well and we can't wait to be back in KY! Here are a few pics to tide you over.