Since Rob and I have no doubt that we want to adopt both Olegs and Kristine, we’ve already been gathering our dossier paperwork which is required by Latvia. One of those items on the list is a physicians report signed by our doctor. The form has a checklist of ailments that our doctor has to check off for us as being either "negative" or "positive." In order for our doctor to sign off on the report, we’re required to have some bloodwork done. Bascially, the Latvian government wants to feel confident that we’re not going to adopt these two children and then drop dead.
Because we needed our forms signed and notarized, Rob and I made an appointment to go together for the bloodwork and get our forms signed by our doctor and notarized while we were there. Then I would go back to pick them up once the doctor got our blood test results. Well, since we were both going we had to take the kids with us. Poor things…I think they thought we might have some serious health problems because we were both going for bloodwork. Of course we couldn’t tell them that we were going through all of this for them.
When it was time for the nurse to take our blood, we all got to go back to the lab together. When we got to the lab, we noticed a Russian calendar on the wall so of course we asked about it. It turns out the nurse taking our blood was Russian!!! AMAZING!! We shared with her that we are hosting the children and she was so excited for us. She understood that we hoped to be their forever family and she was just so kind and supportive. She immediately began speaking to the kids in Russian, asking them how old they were, where they live, how they like school, etc. I think Olegs and Kristine were a little shocked at first (didn’t expect anyone Russian to pop up in the doctor’s office) but seemed to light up as they got to talk with her in Russian. It was just too awesome. Sometimes I think the Lord places people in our path just to bless us.
The nurse wished us well and next we went to meet with our doctor to sign the forms with the notary present. We told the kids to wait in the waiting area while we finished up. We appreciate so much that our doctor took the time to fill out 4 copies of the forms for EACH of us (that’s 8 forms!!!) since we have to put together two dossiers. It was quite time consuming. The notary was another really nice lady and told us how much she hoped things worked out for us. Turns out that she has also adopted children so she could totally relate to what we’re going through.
After the doctor’s office, we had a late breakfast at Waffle House where we had the usual challenge of helping the kids decide what they wanted to eat. We had a little excitement when I somehow managed to knock Kristine’s drink over and it seeped all over the table. Seems like whenever we’re out eating, one of us spills a drink but it’s usually one of the kids. We quickly cleaned it up and finished our meal.
Rob and I dropped the kids off at the house to stay with Cheryl (Grandmother’s caregiver) so we could also go get our GBI prints done for our dossier. We’re not 100% sure that we need this done since we can get local background checks that check the statewide database and since we’ve already had FBI prints done. Nevertheless, we figured it was better to be safe than sorry and go ahead and get it done just in case. We also requested new copies of our local background checks while we were at the sheriff’s office. We had gotten these for the hosting program back in March, but we decided to get new ones now since we need 4 copies each for our dossier. Luckily, our county will do them for free if it’s for an adoption.
We have just a few more items to compile for our dossiers now. Our plan is to have our dossiers ready to send to Latvia as soon as the kids go back home. We know we’re gonna be heartbroken when they leave so we hope to bring them back as soon as possible afterwards.
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