We have a date!
We will be heading back to Kazakhstan on October 30th - two weeks from today.
Remarkably, we met Tougy on 01 Nov 2007, and we will meet the second child on 02 Nov 2009. With Tougy, we came back home Christmas Day and so have made that our return target for this journey as well.
We have known for a few days now that our LOI was being processed but did not know when we would be expected to arrive. As of yesterday it was narrowed to somewhere in the last week of October, and this afternoon it became known that we should travel on the 30th to arrive Sunday 01 Nov, which I assume means that we will see children Monday morning.
So now the zany fun begins. The emotions kick up a notch, and the reality of the adoption begins to sink in. I promise to be better about maintaining the blog while we are away. I should think that we will be daily again at the end of the month through the end of the year. Take Care.
Join us on our journeys as we adopt our daughters from Kazakhstan.
Meet Aitugan
Aitugan Astana Elizabeth
Aitugan is pronounced "eye""two""gone" with mild emphasis on the first syllable. Aitugan is Kazakh for "born under a new moon" and was the name given to her by her birthmother. We have chosen to keep the name Aitugan as we love the name, the meaning and the connection that it will maintain to her country of birth. Our adoption of Aitugan was finalized the eleventh of December 2007 when we finally left the Hope Astana Baby House as a family of three.
Meet Nurai
Nurai Alia Anson
Nurai is pronounced Nur (sounds like were) and "eye". Nurai is Kazakh for "shining light of the moon". This is the name that was given to her by her birth mother. We love the sound of Nurai's name as well as the meaning so have decided to keep her birth name. Similarly to Aitugan, we like that her name will remain a tie and tribute to her birth country. Our adoption was finalized on the eighth of December 2009 and we plan to return to Maine as a family of FOUR on the sixteenth of January 2010.
About Us - Kjersten and Steve
We have been married now for eight years (as of July 2009) and in many ways the time seems to have flown by. As we discussed starting a family we had to decide whether to start with adoption or a biological child. We have both known for many years that we wanted to adopt and we finally decided that adoption made the most sense for the start of our human family. Our daughters join us and our two furry and very friendly rottweilers (Bokar and Daouda).
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19 comments:
WOOOOOHHOOOOOOOO!!!!
yay! How exciting, so happy for you all!
The photos in the post below are beautiful.
Congratulations! We are so thrilled for you guys and we cannot wait to follow along (and to see more beautiful photos).
So happy for you all!
You do realize the implications of this, we take it?
:)
Yaaay!!!!!
We look forward to vicariously experiencing your quest.
We have never been to Shymkent before. We may never get to go there except through you. But we are so excited to be able to tag along with you on your trip there. This is so exciting.
Congrats
I was in Shymkent in August and adopted 2 toddlers. Shymkent is a great place. If you have any questions, let me know.
Julie
What great news! Crazy timing. Good luck can't wait to follow your journey. Kathy
I am so happy to see that you are adopting again! Your blog was one of the first I read when I started the Kaz process. I am now waiting to return to Semey to pick up my 9 month old daughter, Anelya. We are in NH and would love to meet you when you get home and settled! Best of luck to you!
Andrea
Wonderful news! Congratulations!
So happy for you guys!!! How exciting that you are meeting the little one a day after meeting Tougy 2 years ago! It will always be the BEST time of you for Morrison Family forever! I love this time of year too, on the 20th of this month I met Henry 2 years ago! Wonderful memories!!
I can not wait to follow along, So excited!
xxoo
I read your post and was immediatly trasported to August of 2005, when we got the word we were traveling in two weeks. My heart raced, I got goose bumps and I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs "YEAH"! Tougy is so lucky to be able to travel back to the Country of her birth. I wish Mak was able to do that, he has such great questions. Good luck, have fun and we look forward to reading about your adventures each day!
The Masse family
Wow,
Exciting!!!
We already have 2 Kazakh kids (Miel Arman, Aktobe 2005 and Roos Balzahn, Karaganda 2007). Our file for a third adoption is in Almaty. We know since last week that there are still 5 couples before us to travel to Almaty. So we expect to travel again december/january.
Good luck!!!!!!
Winde (we found you through the Belgian couple who was with you in Astana (Heidje, Stefan, Mikiel and Anna-Lina)
CONGRATULATIONS!! Wishing you fun with your preparations and safe travels to your little one!
Quaintance
I AM soooooooo excited and THRILLED FOR THE MORRISON FAMILY! I will be stalking you daily. :)
congrats congrats congrats. :)
xoxoxo
Congrats on your upcoming new little one!! I am really happy to hear that it's happening so soon. I'm sure Tougy will be a fabulous big sis! xo Tanda
Congratulations! I am certain your photography will fill that Shymkent void. Will you stay the entire duration or make it two trips? It appears I will be doing the 3 trips for Almaty.
I thoroughly look forward to your adventure and cross my fingers that the Morrison/Karp clan might actually cross over somewhere??
Stephanie
Great news!! Looking forward to following you back to Kazakhstan. Good luck with your travel prep :)
Best wishes.
So thrilled for you... I will enjoy following along even more this time since we FINALLY have travel dates too to Russia! We don't go till 11/28 tho so we will be filled with anticipation and it will be great reading along with your experience while we count down the days till we get to travel to meet our new little one!
Best wishes!!!!
:)
I am so excited for the three of you. I have followed Tougy's blog and look forward to joining you on your jouney for bobek. Safe travels.
Love & Hugs
Kim at WBS
How fantastic!! I remembering guessing 10-31 to meet your "little pumpkin", guess I wasn't too far off :). We are thrilled for you and can't wait to follow along on your exciting adventure! Gena, Jaimie and Berik
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