"Very, very, very, very, very, very, very love you!"

We talked to Katya on the phone yesterday. We were so excited to call and surprise her with the news that we would be coming in June and would probably see her on June 10th. However, somehow she already knew we were coming and insisted that we were coming on May 27th, as that was the date she was told! Needless to say, she was disappointed that she was going to have to wait two more weeks to see us but was somewhat consoled by the fact that we were going to take her home with us at the end of the trip - since she thought that we were really just coming to visit and that we would leave and come back later in the year.

Anyway, after she realized that she would be going home with us soon, she decided to let us know some of the things that she wanted, such as a puppy, a cell phone, and her own room. Oh boy! We also told her that Alex had bought matching shorts for her and Allie the other day and she informed us that she did not want matching shorts! She is probably not going to like the matching dresses that we bought for her and Allie then, but she will have to deal with it because they will look so cute going to court in them and we hope that it will show the judge that we really want to make her part of our family.

At the end of the call, in an attempt to keep us on the phone longer, Katya told first me, then Alex, then me again (and then we cut her off by telling her that we really did have to go) that she "very, very, very, very, very, very, very loves us". She is going to be a handful - that is for sure - but she will definately make our life interesting!