Friday: Orphanage

This was our last day before we headed back home. This is an orphanage that hasn't been worked in on past trips. We were all exhausted but livened up when we were greeted by our first cutie.

This little girl was excited to greet us all. We passed her down as she grinned at everyone. After briefly working with her, we found out she has a family in the U.S. and her adoptive mom was there later that day. It was so exciting to see this little girl knowing she would have a bright future.

This is one of the corner chairs that was made for the various orphanage's and families.

Gregg working on a wheelchair

Lunch break- Cookies and Tea

This is one of the individual rooms we went in. We couldn't help but grab these kids and hold them. Several of the kids in these pictures have families that have adopted or are working on adopting them from the U.S.

Digging more supplies out of the luggage!

This little girl has a family actively working to adopt her.

This little guy got home to the U.S. last week with his new family

These two (the picture above and below)

are now adoptive brothers.

This is a little girl. She was adopted by the same family with the girl on the very first picture of this blog.

This little guy stole everyone's attention. He was telling us all kinds of things that we of course didn't understand. He also has an American family working to adopt him. He has SOOO much potential that was evident just in the short amount of time we were there. We could not get enough of him.

Gregg fitted him into one of the wheelchairs we brought, and he was wheeling it everywhere.

Christie and Kym casting him for braces (same child-new clothes)

Thursday: Slavyansk

Today started off a little rough for me. Kym and Amanda are the two in our group that have been to Ukraine several times. We started the day by getting on the bus and realizing that Kym, Amanda, Olga (our translator) and Vova (our driver) were going somewhere else. SO we were on a bus with a bunch of people we didn't know, a few of which we had met the day before. This was not OK with me but off we went!

We were taken to a local gym and once again walked into a room full of parents and children. We split into groups and treated 40 kids before stopping for a late lunch.

These next pictures truly represent our day..All business, no messing around.

Enjoy our expressions

After we were done, we got on the bus to leave and a parent walked up carrying her child. We made them unload the bus so we could assess her as well.

Here are a few smiles for the end of the day

Alice and Carmen

Alice and Amy

All loading up for dinner!

Yes, there were 9 of us in that small vehicle.

Amanda and Kym delivering equipment and exercise programs to families we worked with Tuesday at the hospital

Amanda and Vova

We ate dinner at Milky Way