Yes and yes.

This is going to be a short post, as my laptop is about to die, but I want to give an update. All is going really well. We have the two sweetest (three counting Jude) boys in the world. Tolia has given the formal "yes", signed and everything, and Oleg has said yes (the official "yes" comes in about 1.5 weeks, God-willing). We were expecting Tolia to say yes, but Oleg has never met us. We began to understand once we got here- REALLY understand- what a leap of faith it is for a child. We are humbled and so grateful that he is choosing a family, choosing us. 

On Friday, when we got to the boys' school, first Tolia came into the director's office. It was a surreal moment... finally being there, him walking in. We've anticipated this very meeting for so long! Right away, the director asked Tolia if he wants to stay in Ukraine or move to America. He immediately answered, "America". Music to our ears. Jude saw Tolia and lunged for him, arms out. 

Let me just say... we weren't even exactly allowed to see him yet that day. We WERE scheduled to, but ended up missing one official's signature, and couldn't get it because they were in court. Unbelievably, the director let us come see Tolia, anyway. She is usually a real stickler for the rules. Have to say, really seeing God's hand!

Then, our facilitator let the director know that we also plan to adopt Oleg. May we see him? She rolled her eyes and said "da". She sent someone for him. In a moment he appeared at the door, making this very happy room and very happy mom and dad even happier.

And, we didn't find this out UNTIL THE NEXT DAY (apparently no one thought it was worth translating to us!) but the director asked him the same question right in front of us, and he, too, said that he wants to be adopted by us. 

When we later found out that he'd said yes to us, will go down as one of my favorite memories in my whole life. It was just sweet and very special finding out, and him smiling and confirming it to us. And me crying, of course. 

On Saturday, we went for a walk with Tolia, Oleg, and their friend Valera. They showed us the whole village. And had snowball fights. :)

Then we came in, to warm up and play some Monopoly. It was all in Russian!

I don't have many pictures from today, but will leave you with this one. Thanks for reading!