We arrived at the orphanage during his lunch time. It is a brand new facility. Turns out all of the kids from his orphanage as well as some of the staff went with him. The social worker we had used in the past, who was very stern and not very open about the orphanage was gone. In her place was a lady who has been with Dima since he arrived there. She repeatedly told me to take care of him as Dima was her baby. She loves him very much. She gave us her email address and asked us to please send pics and updates.
Another boy in his group was being adopted the same day and we were told they would talk over the past month about which toys their new "mama" brought and would count the days together.
They had all of his things we had brought him waiting as well as his baptism certificate and they had taken some pics with a camera I left over the past month. Can't wait to get those developed!
We were allowed all over the facility this time and towards the end of the lunch time we were allowed to enter the lunch room. He saw us and his face lit up. The caretaker told him to finish eating and he started shoveling the soup in! After a few minutes with him we had to leave the room as we were making quite a stir amongst the kids.
He barreled through the door and said "Let's go home" in Russian and headed to his bench in front of his locker and began taking off his clothes. He knew he would get new stuff and was ready to get dressed and leave. It was hysterical and the other couple adopting with us and the caretakers were in stitches laughing at him.
As we walked out he insisted on holding both mine and Willem's hand and kept saying "Mama and Papa". The caretakers all said bye and told him to be well behaved. There were tears in all of their eyes and we were repeatedly told he is very special to them. The guard at the gate walked up to him to say goodbye and he said "I know I will be good. I am a sweet boy" :)
The ride home was great. He almost fell asleep on my lap. He had a snack at the apartment and played....lied awake as he was supposed to nap :). Later we went for a walk to a park and got some energy out of him. Dinnertime...great... Bathtime was a breeze. Bedtime is now and Willem is lying with him (I was on nap duty). He is scared by himself and hopefully he is on his way to sleeping. It has been a very stimulating day!
I'll leave you with a video (forgive poor quality) and pics of the day....and now that he is in our arms I can show you pics from the last couple of trips as well! Enjoy and thank you for praying and celebrating with us!
3 comments:
Amazing! Congratulations guys from the whole Larose gang in Toronto.
Oh, he looks like such a little man walking with his Papa!
Precious. Just, so precious.
I am so glad to hear how eager he was to go HOME. Smart boy. ;>
(sorry. wrong google account.
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