UN RESUME DE DANIEL DU 23 AU 30 JANVIER!!

Mercredi 23 janvier 2008

Jackie pense avoir le rhume encore une fois aujourd’hui donc nous allons visiter Olivier le matin seulement. Dans l’après-midi nous relaxons et restons à l’appartement. Olivier est toujours amorphe aujourd’hui et il continue d’être congestionne, c’est une situation qui semble permanente a l’orphelinat. L’échange constant de jouets qu’ils mettent tous dans leurs bouches explique ce problème. Une fois a la maison nous croyons qu’il se débarrassera de ce rhume constant. La température c’est réchauffée il fait environ -14 degrés. Le soir vers 7h00 Lorraine nous appelle de Vaudreuil, ca fait longtemps qu’on n’a pas parle a une amie de notre quartier en direct.
Dan


Jeudi 24 janvier 2008

Ce matin, une chose intéressante c’est produite. Olivier nous imite et il commence à dire maman et papa !! Ca un effet encourageant sur nous. Nous sommes vraiment emballes de ce nouveau développement. Nous le filmons entrain de répéter ces mots avec la camera digitale, ca fera de beaux souvenirs. Nous croyons que de nous voir régulièrement accélère grandement son développement Les nounous l’avait déjà remarque il y a une semaine, des changements dans son comportement était entrain de se produire. Jackie se sent mieux aujourd’hui, elle a été capable d’éviter un rhume. C’est probablement grâce au fait que l’on a la chance de dormir beaucoup, soit 9 a 10 heures par nuit. Le matelas souffle (style pour le camping) que nous avons apporte est pas mal confortable. C’est définitivement mieux que le mince matelas de foam de 1 pouce d’épaisseur sur lequel repose notre matelas souffle (Kim et Jean nous sympathisons avec vous). C’est un $25 bien investi croyez-moi !!
Dan

Vendredi 25 janvier 2008

2 visites habituelles aujourd’hui. Olivier ne nous imite pas aujourd’hui. Il est vraiment « moody ». Il change comme la température.
Dan


Samedi 26 janvier 2008

Apres la visite habituelle du matin nous allons faire l’épicerie. Nous allons chez Oural puis chez Baytereck (une plus petite surface). Vers 4h00 Elvira et Oscar viennent jouer une partie de Blokus. On joue jusqu'à 6h30, c’est plaisant d’avoir un peu de changement dans la routine.
Dan

Dimanche 27 janvier 2008

Aujourd’hui diner au Dixie Pub avec Isabelle et sa mère. Malheureusement, nous ne pouvons commander notre pizza habituelle. Nous commandons un club sandwich, des frites et des tacos, c’est mangeable mais ce n’est rien de fantastique. Plus tard nous allons magasiner et Jackie achète une paire de superbes bottes d’hiver qui ont du style (voir photo sur le blog) et qui sont doublées, donc chaudes pour l’hiver. C’est le genre de bottes qu’on ne retrouve pas à Montréal. Ici c’est plein de beau style de bottes pour femmes, l’assortiment est incroyable, c’est le rêve des fanatiques comme Jackie. Pour les hommes il y a une grande variété de souliers doubles ; ce qu’on ne voit pas par chez nous. Les gens ont du style au Kazakhstan, on dépense beaucoup sur le look même s’il n’en on pas les moyens. Je me suis même acheté un chapeau de style Kazakh car ma tuque faisait dure. J’aurais bien fait de porter un de mes manteaux de cuir pour le style mais j’aurais gelé a notre arrivée. Un manteau de cuir a -30 c’est impensable mais pas pour les Kazakhs. Aujourd’hui la température se situe aux environs de -5 degrés Celsius et il neige.
Dan

Lundi 28 janvier 2008

Ce matin il neige toujours. C’est une bonne accumulation pour ici : environ 10cm sont tombes. Normalement, le climat est froid et très sec, donc très peu de neige. Journée très chaude aujourd’hui. On passe a +2 en après-midi et la neige fond déjà. Olivier a encore attrape un rhume. Il a seulement eu quelques jours de paix et ca recommence ; pauvre lui. Nous essayons tant bien que mal de nous protéger de ce rhume (avec du Purel) mais c’est plutôt difficile car nous sommes en contact avec lui 2 heures par jour et c’est suffisant pour passer ces microbes contagieux. Nous commençons a devenir vraiment impatient avec la date de « pré-court » et de court que nous ne savons toujours pas. La période d’attachement est terminée depuis mercredi passe et le processus prend plus de temps que prévu car c’est un nouveau juge qui s’occupera de nous. Ce juge insiste pour tout révise notre dossier et ca prend plus de temps. Vers 7h00pm Elvira nous envoie un message texte sur le cellulaire disant que la pré-court sera mercredi matin (30 janvier) a 11h00am. Elle espère que la court sera vendredi (1 février) mais n’est certaine de rien. Le juge décide tout et nous n’avons aucune influence sur lui.
Dan

Mardi 29 janvier 2008

Il fait toujours chaud aujourd’hui ; -5 degrés. Jackie et moi sommes en discussion sur la date de notre départ. Nous décidons de voir quand sera la date de court pour prendre une décision. Normalement, c’est environ une vingtaine de jour pour réunir les documents nécessaires (passeport de l’enfant et autres) pour le retour au Canada. En après-midi Olivier est hyperactif, il bouge plus que jamais et ne veux presque pas manger son pate chinois habituel.
Dan
Mercredi 30 janvier 2008

Aujourd’hui c’est la pré-court. Nous sommes nerveux malgré que nous savons bien qu’il n’y a rien la. Le juge regarde nos papiers et fait des commentaires qu’Elvira traduit pour nous. Il demande toutes sortes de modifications sur nos documents. La dame du ministère de l’éducation aura quelques documents à modifier. Elle répond qu’elle est d’accord pour le faire. Notre agence aura aussi à faire quelques ajustements dans le futur. Puis, le juge tombe sur le fait que nous n’avons pas de documents signes pour les gardiens légaux (parrain, marraine de l’enfant). Celui-ci insiste pour avoir ce papier (malgré que l’agence ne nous l’avait pas demande). A ce moment Jackie commence a pleurer et moi je me choque pensant que tout le processus sera retarde. Ensuite, Lonia nous dit de ne pas nous inquiéter car nous obtiendrons le document avec l’aide d’Anna, Fred et Lorraine (parrain et marraine) a Montréal. Effectivement c’est ce qui c’est produit. Des 6h30am, heure de Montréal, nous faisons des appels pour demander l’aide de nos bons ami(e)s et aussi l’aide d’Anna. Heureusement, ils sont en mesure de nous prêter main forte. Un gros merci a tous, c’est un stress de moins sur nos épaules. Finalement, le juge établi la date de court au lendemain 3h00pm (jeudi 31 janvier) pour nous et a 10h00am pour Isabelle. Youppie ! C’est une excellente nouvelle… Nous décidons de rester à Ouralsk pour la pleine durée soit un autre 3 semaines environs. Nous estimons être à Montréal pour le 24 février. Nous serons donc au Kazakhstan pour un total de 9 semaines. Il faut dire que nous sommes arrive 2 semaines et demi a l’avance a cause du changement de dernière minute avec la disponibilité des enfants dans la base de données d’adoption. Nous avions déjà nos billets d’avion au moment de ce changement donc ca nous aurais un $500 additionnel pour changer la date de départ.

WE HAVE A DATE!!!

Well ladies and gentleman the moment has finally arrived, we got a court date. Let me start from the moment we woke up… It all started with a beautiful phone call from my poupee Linda back in Mtl, we talked for a while (she had purchased a calling card). The phone disconnected 3 times but we will speak again. It made me feel so full of happiness that when we hung up for real, I was missing her already and home. But as most of you already know today Wednesday is/was a biggish day…Pre-court!!!! I’m a nervous wreck and Lin calmed me down.

10:20 we’re picked up and off to pick up Isabelle, she is alone because her mother cannot enter the court, and she is an emotional mess like me. We arrive at the court and to my surprise it looked similar to the hospital building, (amongst tiny houses/shacks) but no chefs walking around. Daniel was calm but I was the bubbling one, feeling nervous and (why is it I’m always the one sitting in front of the judge or the important person).

Pre-court; we take off our coats and Elvira is trying to tell us something like don’t make to much gestures and don’t say anything…what does she mean gestures? Needless to say I cried when the honorable judge found a problem with our file (I think that is a pretty big gesture)! To me it was serious because I didn’t know how I was going to get that information for him by tomorrow, and for Daniel, he kept thinking this is going to delay us by 2 extra weeks. I couldn’t understand why they needed this information (it’s because Isabelle had included this in her home study) and now we need to prove we had it. This mysterious paper was guardian ship of Olivier (the Godparents), so it was rectified by a phone call to the Godparents and they will send a paper stating that they will accept…Lorraine and Fred accepted!!!

Next was the mad rush to get everything we don’t have at the apartment for Olivier’s home coming (imagine it the apartment has become home). Oh! Dear did I forget to mention that the court date is Thursday, and then we pick up our son from the orphanage!!! That is all if the judge grants us the adoption. After that we start the process of getting our papers to leave, maybe we could be home in 4 weeks, I’m praying for sooner!!!

So we will let you know on Thursday if we were granted to be Olivier Keanu Renat’s parents.

Also for the future pre- adoptive parents (PAP’S) please spend all the time you have reading other peoples blogs on the region you are going to and ask your agency if the information pertains to you. I believe that all my research has made this trip a breeze for material comfort, as for documents I guess you can’t always be fully prepared (ours is a new Judge, we are his second parents)!!!

ELUSIVE DREAMS

Court, no court date has been determined yet, but we do have a date for pre-court, WEDNESDAY!!!! And we are praying that he says “ok let’s go to court on THURSDAY”,is that too much to ask! It would make our life so much easier, we could finally be together. However another dream will start…the process of paper chasing to get home, which is as unpredictable and elusive as getting a court date!

Today was the same ol’ same ol’, with a twist! Olivier decided to talk again, “mamamamamama, daadaaadddddaaa papapapapa”! This is a very special moment for us that we thought we’d never experience, a young baby doing all his firsts with us!!! He also displayed his cheeky side by not talking when people were in the room, then as soon as they would leave he would turn his attention back to us and start talking all over again!!! Like I said cheeky monkey!!!!

With the previous entry on my blog, I was hoping to attract one female shoe fan in particular, but I ended up getting several comments and e-mails. However, I can’t send the phone number to the anonymous commenter since I’m not sure who you are!!! The only girls that I know that like shoes, call me baby and have not been in touch with me are…LE or JJ or EB!!! As much as I like this guessing game could the real shoe fan stand up???!!!!???

MAMA WANT S A NEW PAIR OF SHOES/BOOTS!!!!

I really thought our son would be living with us this week and everybody would be saying POZDRAVLAYOU (CONGRATULATIONS) to us on finally passing to court and being a family. But as fate would have it,we haven’t passed in court and still do not have a date. It saddened me so much that I had to ponder on what I would do back home if I was getting depressed? Well the first, I would seek out my nearest and dearest; my husband, mama, then friends or it could be the other way around depending on who is the cause of the ache. Well, I cuddled with Daniel and it made me feel better but not 100% yet, so he said “I know what will do the trick!” I said “yes”, he said “ SHOESSSS”!!!! I eagerly agreed! I believe I feel down because I have nothing to do, except for eating and there is only so much eating a girl wants to do, so now it’s time for some fun activity…SHOE SHOPPING! So I pick up the phone and I call my new gal pal El (It felt like an episode of the FLINSTONES…CHARGE IT!!!!!) No sooner that I hung up the phone, I see her pulling up, screaming CHARGE IT!!! I start running out of the apartment with glea in my eyes. I think I found my shoe soul mate, I believe she has as many shoes/boots as me, if not more! I spent the next couple of hours trying on all kinds of crazy boots, when I say crazy I mean AWESOME. Let me explain the boots here are very different from the one’s back home; their are is so many different styles and all lined for winter at an affordable price. They have millions of shoe stores and millions of styles, the woman wear high heal boots in the winter and walk everywhere (no transportation) even on the ice…they look good! It is like everyone is on the catwalk struting their stuff everyday.

Anyways all this to say that I acquired a pair of KAZAKH BOOTS!!!!! And hopefully it brings me luck for a court date!!!

GUESS WHO!!!

EXCITIING DAY FOR MAMA, DADA AND FAFA!!!!

Yesterday I was pretty blue again but that quickly changed when the phone rang. My Darling husband Daniel answered it and was talking very casually beside me, at first I thought it was Elvira, and then I realized he was talking about how we feel and how the weather was. I turned my head and said “who are you talking to?” He says “Lorraine” “Lorraine!!! Give me the phone!!!!” I couldn’t believe my husband, he made it sound like it’s just another regular phone call & I couldn’t believe that she was live on the other end of the phone…it made me cry again!!! I know it must cost a small fortune so I didn’t keep her on the phone too long…just long enough to say “thank you, I miss you and I love you”. And that is all I needed to go on for another day…anybody else want to call?

The happiness continued all day today THURSDAY THE 24TH. We went to the baby house again to see Olivier and brought his usual; change of clothes, 5 diapers (1 extra one for us), his books, teething ring, and some water in his bottle. The difference today was when he started imitating Daddy, “mama” baby Oli says “MAMA” then “DADA” we couldn’t believe our ears so we made him say it over and over again until I got it on video tape!!!! We are so proud of him, his first mimicking words!!! Another first was he gave me a real hug around my neck and then rested his little head on me, I’m so in love. And this isn’t the first time he does this but, it is the first time that I had a diaper to change him…he pooped on me again!!! I told Daddy that he will do the next diaper change. In the pm for our second visit, BABY OLI-K surprised us again. He was in his little walker in the playroom and Elvira was trying to get him to come to her, so she can bring him in the room for us. He didn’t budge, he just smiled at her. I said let me give a try and sure enough my little man got so happy and ran over to me in his walker. I took him out and kissed his little face, we were so proud that he is recognizing us. He trusts his mommy so much now that he pooped again on me, while I was feeding him. He doesn’t however like when I change him, he cries and wiggles to be free…Speaking of free, I told him that he would be free tomorrow from the baby house, but it looks like I was wrong!!! We still have no court date yet, I’m sad for him and for us!!! It is so hard for us to say goodbye to him when we leave the baby house, you could see in his face that he is wondering why we aren’t playing with him and his friends and why we always leave! I don’t want to leave him anymore!!!!

Just another manic Wednesday, ah Monday…oh Wednesday!!! Wish it was Sunday cause that is our fun day!!!

OK I HAVEN’T POSTED IN A WHILE SO HERE IS SUNDAY TO WEDNESDAY ALL ROLLED UP.
I was thinking today, I don’t really write much detail on a day to day basis…so here goes!!!

I like Sundays because we go for a long walk that leads to my DIXIE PUB, where I get to watch hip hop videos, an English menu and a great pizza with a GREEK salad. Then I can walk around and shop (no purchases so far). Today we discovered (and it is Wednesday) a place that we could of purchased the stuff we needed in the apartment instead of bringing it from Canada (heads up future PAP’S). I also acquired a map of URALSK just to remember where everything is the next time we return…just kidding!!! I don’t think we will return anytime soon, if anything it will be in 20 years from now and I think I will need a new one! I really hope I can stay in touch with Elvira, I invited her to join facebook and to come visit in Canada. Daniel also challenged her and Oscar to a game of Blokus…his first contenders!!! We are thinking of throwing a party, a blokus party on Saturday night, I can’t wait!

On a serious note, today my little man was feeling chil-laxed and it was really special, Elvira helped me with our next picture for all of you!!! I will post it now! Olivier is getting very happy when he sees us and he definetly recognizes us when he is in his play room, he comes right to the door with his baby aid (helps them to walk, but I think it is banned in Canada, I have a scar because I fell down some stairs when I was in one of those contraptions).

On a sadder note, yesterday I cried!!! I missed my mommy and I could only imagine how my little Olivier is going to feel one day, when he is sad…will he miss me or yen for his biological mothers voice/touch? This whole adoption thing really makes you think and feel that much more! When I hold him, while I’m giving him his bottle it is like we have known each other forever, the connection is very profound. However, every other moment is spent wondering; does he know we are going to be his parents, does he know what we are doing here, is he ok???