Erik officially has a baby brother!

Thursday 8/9 - 9 pm
We just got back from driving 3 hrs to & then 3 hrs back to Kemerovo City for court & I am happy to report the judge granted us parents to Scott Dimitri!!!! We were sooooo relieved due to the issues with the paperwork. It was not even brought up at all! The whole court proceeding took about 1/2 hr. It was much easier than our court session for Erik. We had to leave at 6:45 am this morning which was fine as I hardly slept at all last night as I was nervous about taking a sleeping pill & being too out of it in the morning. We were with 2 other couples who also had court. Kris & Rich were taken first & came down about 45 minutes later & then we were next. Its a very formal proceeding & the translator is with you the whole time translating everything which is being said. Ed had to give a little speech about why we wanted to adopt, how we feel about Dimitri & how we have prepared to bring him home. After Ed's speech they asked if I had anything to add & then they asked only a few more questions. They asked me mostly about Erik & if he knew he was going to have a brother & if we discuss his Russian heritage with him. THere was also a social worker & prosecutor in the room who made statements. THe one interesting thing we found out was that they had placed an ad in the Russian newspaper with a picture of Scott & that he was available for adoption to a Russian family. We were able to get a copy of this ad. He looks like a newborn in the picture so it is cool to have this early picture of him. We had to request to have the 10 days waived due to his medical conditions & we also found out from the social worker that the room which Scott is in has mostly handicapped children so this is another reason why they waived the 10 days. After the court decision was made we had to go to numerous offices to get documents processed. We also got to see our faciliators apt which was very nice.
More potential good news is we may be able to either fly out to Moscow together on Sunday or we may be able fly to Moscow on Sat. We are going to the ticket office tomorrow morning & after that we are going to pick up Scott!! Ed then has to do the 3 hr drive back to Kemerovo to pick up the passports while I hang out with Scott at the hotel. We can not wait to start to bond with him & I can not wait for everyone to meet him!