We have not made any progress since our last posting, so there is not much to report. It looks as though Doug and I will be returning to the US for a couple of weeks to wait for our second appointment with the SDA. Evidently, there was a period last summer for a couple of months when registration of children in orphanages was suspended. And since according to Ukrainian law, all children must be registered with the SDA for one year prior to becoming available for international adoption, there are currently very few healthy children ages 18 months to three years old in the registry. We understand that there are 10 families ahead of us who are also waiting for children. Our facilitator told us that one family from Canada who has been waiting in the Ukraine for six weeks, finally received a placement for a healthy child. It also appears that placements for families wishing to adopt boys are moving more quickly as there are more boys available in the Ukraine than girls.

We had hoped to have a much more positive news report after two weeks of waiting, but this is our situation as it stands now! We hope to have much better news in September.