Karina turned 13 years old on March 5. Her first birthday celebrated in America. Last year, she was in Ukraine on her birthday, while we were at home waiting on her birth certificate to be obtained from Russia. Even though she was in an Ukrainian orphanage and considered a citizen of Ukraine, the judge couldn't (or wouldn't, who knows?) issue her a birth certificate. Our facilitator had to make several trips to Moscow to find out how to get this done. There are no specific guidelines, so it's anybody's guess. There just so happens to be someone who does know what to do and many of the facilitators in Ukraine know him. We never knew his name until recently.
We did have cake for Karina and both her brothers once we did finally arrive home with her. While we were in Ukraine waiting on Karina's passport, her brothers had both their birthdays. That's the picture on our blog with all of them with individual birthday cakes.
Karina has had many firsts since being home for 11 months now. That's another anniversary that was a few days ago on March 15. Her year anniversary will be on April 15. I will HAVE to post on that day since I've missed all the other dates.
I'll have to sit down and write all those 'firsts' down so I don't miss any of them and make that another post.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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