WE FINALLY HAVE A PICTURE OF ALEX!

A family adopting from Odesssa #9 sent us a picture of Alex (aka Sasha, which is what every Alex in Ukraine is called). He looks a lot like Matthew-even more so than Vasya. The couple said he is smart, polite, speaks and understands some English (thank goodness-since my tongue won't cooperate when I try to learn Russian). He is 4'6" tall which is an inch shorter than my niece Katie. He is good friends with the children the family is adopting and we will be able to visit them since they live in Colorado. I will post a picture of him soon. We were so excited to see what he looks like and the family was able to tell him that we are trying to adopt him--he had no idea. He thought the other family was still coming back. (We still don't know anything about why that adoption didn't go through).