Well, I said yesterday that I wouldn’t post pictures of Valerie every day, but some folks have asked to see more.
We’ll celebrate Christmas on New Year’s Day, since Valerie wasn’t with us on the 25th. We have a tree with presents under it waiting for Saturday morning!
We start with a video of Valerie meeting babushka (grandmom) Cantrell over Skype:
OK, I promise not to post pictures of Valerie every day, but folks have asked to see some more.
I’ll send out a more complete update hopefully in the next few days.
We didn’t take too many pictures today. We start with a short video from breakfast:
Some of you may not know, but Olga and I have been pursuing guardianship of a little girl named Valerie.
Valerie is the 3 year old daughter of Oksana, the orphan who lived with us a few years ago. Oksana is now in prison, and her daughter was placed in an orphanage earlier this year.
Today we finished the process of becoming guardians. We picked her up a few hours ago. I took the picture above of Olga and Valerie walking down the sidewalk to our flat in St. Pete.
I can promise that you’re going to see a lot of pictures of Valerie in the future! I’ll try to post more tomorrow.
Right now she is sleeping soundly in her new bed. It’s great to have her home.
Mike and Olga Cantrell 