Day 45 Thursay October 9, 2008
Happy Birthday Daddy!!!!!!!!!!!
Today is my Dad's birthday, I didn't think we would still be here. Oh Well, my family will be enjoying Whimp's spagetti dinner while we are tucked into bed sleeping. We were able to skype my Dad's cell phone and talk to him for twenty minutes or so. It only cost 28 cents. It is amazing, and we were able to hear him better than if we were at home calling him, and he was in a tractor at the time. Thanks to Holly and my Mom for setting up the skype phone thing for us-it wouldn't work from here.

Today we mixed things up a big, we visited Sasha first. Vanya went with us to explain things about court to the boys. Sasha and Jeff played game boy, he is very funny with the racing games, he crashes into everything. I had a bad headache most of the day. I think my neck was out of place from that crazy bus ride yesterday. It was really nice out so I rested in the sun on a picnic table. I stayed at Vasya's only long enough to have Vanya explain things to him, it seems the other family has sent someone to talk to him. It mades me sad (and mad) that while we follow all the rules, they don't and then we have to fix everything-especially for the boys. Sasha was upset when they had someone call him, his teacher said he wasn't sleeping well because he was worried they would take him away from us and Matthew. Vasya is a bit confused because of all the things they told him which aren't true, Vanya spent some time with him explaining the facts. Thank you Vanya for you patience and honesty, we could never work with someone who outright lies to children and manipulates everyone in their paths.
Thank you God for granting us the patience to get through all of this, Please bless us with the knowledge and the words to get through court tomorrow morning. Lord please bless the other family with the strength to do what is right and to peacefully leave these three brothers to grow up together.
We aren't that worried about court tomorrow, mostly worried about getting Matthew to behave that early. He has been sleeping in late since we arrived in Odessa and we need to leave pretty early. If you happen to be up around 1 am central time, say a quick prayer for us.

Things may seem frustrating for us, but check out this blog: http://www.handsomemanny.blogspot.com/ See their Oct 9 post. The judges in Columbia are on strike. In Colombia you get custody right away so this family may be stuck there until after the new year.
Some of you may be hearing from us now that we have the skype to phone thing figured out!