Monday, April 21, 2008

We have a daughter

As Yulia would say -- TODAY IS A GOOD DAY! We received a phone call at 11 saying that a decision was made by our new daughter -- she likes us and wants us to be her forever family! Relief . . . now we can breathe and begin the true bonding time. It's hard to give your heart when you're not sure you're giving it to someone who wants it . . . . now our work begins!

Our visit today went well, we played go fish and a card game they call stupid man here in Kazakhstan. It was fun to be silly and watch her smile and laugh with us. She watches Jack a lot and he told her that she could start to call him Papa, she smiled at him, but didn't call him anything (I could give her some other words to call him, but I held my tongue) :0)

I'm not going to write much -- but I am going to put up a lot of pictures - I hope! So please scroll down.

We do want to thank all of you for the support, love and prayers . . . . you are the best!!!

And now . . . . here is Miss Kiera Saltanat Ollmann ..............

Saltanat chose the name she would like from a list of names -- she was so cute, she crossed off the ones she didn't like and decided on Kiera . . .

4 comments:

fonthead said...

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

grandma pat and i just read your fantastic news. a good day indeed! =]

_brett

Steve, Stacy, and the kiddos said...

Tears are flowing over here...of course, tears of joy, excitement, relief...

CONGRATS!!! We can't wait to meet her!!!! She's beautiful and Hailee definitely looks the part of the proud sister!!!

Enjoy your new daughter and keep us posted!!

Anonymous said...

Kiera welcome to the family, I can't wait to meet you. I have a dog, Rudy he is very friendly.
So happy Monday came.
Hugs to you all.

Linda said...

OH HAPPY DAYS!!! Welcome Kiera, we can't wait to meet you.
I am so happy for you guys. Our prayers have been answered. The pictures are great and the apartment looks homey. See it was a good choice!
Hope this all means you will be home very soon.
Love ya.