She is offically ours/ the good bye party

This morning we went to pick up the birth certificate for Naomi. The ten days are over and she is officially ours according to Russian law!!!!! We will pick up her pass port on the way to the airport on Thursday . This went fine, but involved waiting in chairs outside of closed doors again. We got to visit with Ellie a little more. We know each other from 2004 when we adopted Scotty. She is a beautiful young woman, who is the daughter of our Russian attorney. She now lives in China, and has a good job interpreting Chinese, English and Russian. She is just helping her Mom out because she’s on vacation (Chinese New Year) and her mom is busy with a lot of adoptions. She was telling us about the weird things Chinese people do. She was hilarious, it just seemed ironic to me.
We had heard that this might or might not happen. Today Ellie said at 4pm we will go back to the orphage for a “good bye party.” I tried to get more information on what we were in for, but I got nothing substantial. When we pulled up in the driveway Alexi acted like he was not going to get out of the car. Ellie had a talk with him and he reluctantly got out. Naomi was just on my hip, seemingly oblivious. We went through the door, and into to a log jam of about eight people, all speaking Russia at once, there seemed to be some confusion. Naomi and I were directed to her former room. She seemed delighted to be there. I took off her coat and she toddled to the group with a big smile. The woman caregiver was saying, ”blah, blah Sveta, Blah blah blah Svets’s Mama,” at first Naomi was standing there rocking, but pleased ,looking at everyone. Then she jumped on a toy car and started propelling herself around the floor. I just observed the room; there were 11 children about her size, and one caregiver (at that time anyway) a few seemed to obviously have special needs. Most tried to interact with me, but not Naomi, I tried to get her attention, she kind of ignored me. They were all darling. I couldn’t help but wonder what will ever become of these little children. I saw the boy who the couple from S.Dakota changed their minds on. He’s just as cute as ever, he would make a beautiful son for someone. Soon Larissa came and said it was time to go. I went to retrieve Naomi; she cried and cried, she did not want to leave. She kicked and sobbed while I gathered our things. We then talked with the director. She asked if I have any questions, then what do I think of this child, I told her she is perfect!
Ken told me how his visit with Alexi’s former group went, quite different than mine. Let’s just say Alexi ran to the car on the way out! I Told Ken my feeling was hurt a little because she obviously wanted to stay at the orphanage instead of going with me. He assured me that she would hurt my feeling many more times in the future. I laughed and said, “So I should get use to it!” I’m sure it was really confusing for her to go back to those surroundings that are so familiar to her. There also seemed to be a hint of judgment being made with this visit. I’m I taking care of her the right way i.e. how they instructed me to?I guess I passed the test, it was all smiles, the director gave me a hug and said “when we get home, feed her whatever you want.”
Once we got in the car Naomi loved me again. One more full day here.