Foiled Again

Sorry we haven't posted since we've been back. The last week has been very frustrating us. We had hoped to jump right in and finish up our paperwork within the week and get it all sent out to Russia. We were foiled in two areas. First, we found out that we have more paperwork requirements piled on by the judge in Yaroslavl. He wants FBI fingerprints (in addition to the 3 state, one federal and one local police fingerprints that we already had), an updated copy of our Child Abuse Clearance (which requires more state fingerprints) and a letter from the California State Medical Board which states that our doctors have the authority to sign off on our medical forms. All these will take several more weeks to satisfy. Our 2nd area of trouble has been our homestudy agency. They were bought out by another agency in So. Cal who has since transferred to Central Valley. We need some of our documents from them, yet they seem to be very unresponsive. They promised to have our documents ready when we got back, yet when they finally returned Elaine's call 1 week later, nothing had been accomplished. Elaine continues to call and email daily. We may have to take a trip down there next week, if things don't move soon.
We were so hopeful after having met Ruslan. We really want to get him home soon. Being hit with new requirements and the stonewalling by our homestudy agency really got us down this last week. We needed a few days to pull our strength together for the long haul. We have re-energized and will do whatever it takes to get our little guy home. Last week we went out to dinner and Ken said "I just want to get him home and get on with this parenting thing." That pretty much sums up both of our sentiments at this time.