Happy Weekend : )

HI Everyone,
I know we are not as good about emailing, pictures of blog updates. It's been very BUSY. Anyone who has experienced a very SPIRITED toddler can understand the word BUSY. HA HA Don’t get me wrong, the week is going great, we are making great progress with Lucy each day, but it's just a long day and that is action packed with keeping her busy, keeping the house clean and trying to figure out what next? She is still a bit unpredictable, so we have been a little off schedule the past few days.

Today we ventured for a long walk down to Gorky Park which is actually on the cross street from us. It was a beautiful day, not too hot.....This is also were the zoo is located, but we didn't find the zoo. We walked around for about 45 minutes and couldn't figure out were to go and of course no one could understand the word "zoo" they would just look at me, laugh and turn away.... oh well......

So we came back and looked up the park in a book my Mother brought. It went on to say the park not only has the zoo (somewhere) but also lakes for boating!!...We didn't see any lakes or boats either. I guess this place is HUGE. We saw the adult amusement park as well as the water park, pretty flowers and all and all for 50 cents a person it was well worth it. We might try to walk back tomorrow or early next week and venture in a little deeper and try to find this zoo : )

As you will see in the pictures, Lucy decided on Thursday that she does in fact LOVE taking a bath and we have been taking at least one, some days even two : )

Have I told you yet that we have Lucy's Passport!!!!....We saw it on Friday morning when Zhaniya picked us up for Lucy's medical exam. I was VERY excited to see it; this is a good sign that we will in fact be home on Wednesday. I am of course still a little weary, can't totally believe or trust this is really happening. I am trying to stay focused and realize that this is happening and Lucy is going to be home for good next week!!!....WOOO HOOO (as Nana Nancy likes to say).....

We hope everyone has a great weekend and we will try to update more tomorrow or Monday. Monday morning we go to the Embassy for my exit interview. We might be visiting baby house #2 on Monday or Tuesday. That is were Lucy came from, she was moved to baby house #3 about two weeks before we met her. We would love take pictures and also meet the director and main caregiver.

Love and hugs, Julie, Nana and Lucy