Word from Dr. Yuri in Ukraine

A nice way to enter the month of November indeed. This morning we had email from Dr. Yuri Bezdverny, MD.;Ph.D who will accept us as his client for our child/children as soon as we are in Ukraine. Dr. 'Yuri' speaks fluent English; will travel with us to exam our children in the orphange and comes with the highest credentials within the American and Ukraine Embassies. This is truly one of our major steps forward in being able to have the assistance of such a respected Ukrainian doctor who is very familiar with medical or psychological concerns involving children adopted from the orphanages. As soon as our children are located; they will become his patients and they will be given complete exams before leaving the orphanage. Later they will be again be examined by American doctors in Ukraine as required by US Immigration and Citizenship. When the children step off the plane on to American soil; they are immediately American citizens and will not have to go thru anything else to beome Americans. They will already have as their last names, "Carpenter"...the middle names most likely will be their Ukrainian first names and their first names will be of their choosing to most likely be more 'user-friendly' as Americans. They will have dual citizenship (lucky, eh?) Most likely they will speak Russian (ya bettcha, Greg and I are 'boning' up on the language....thanks for computer translators).....

This is the month to be 'thankful' and....for that...we are. Back to our daily list of things to do. More later..."Do pobachennya/Dasvidanya" (These are our two token words....first in Ukrainian then Russian....translated means "Goodbye") Greg & Arlene