What's In a Name? EVERYTHING!

Today we were priviledged to visit the Proko. Baby House orphanage for the second time. Dr. Ludwilla was all smiles and asked us how our night was. She was very touched to recieve all the wonderful donations for the children, which McKenna collected in lieu of birthday gifts this year. Thank you everyone for your generosity.

After being escorted to the playroom we were handed the form to apply for the baby's new birth certificate. We named our sweet little baby:

Maksim Rigdon Robert Middendorf

It's a handle, we know, but we also know he will carry it well.

We spent approx an hour and a half playing with Maksim and he was very, very cuddly. He would play for a few minutes on the soft mat, turn around and crawl into my or Kip's lap and climb up and put his head on our shoulders. We also started singing our "family lullaby"...the same song we sang to McKenna every night when she was a baby and after the third or fourth time he would hum along or even try to finish the words (Pa Pa and Da Da) when we stopped singing.

When they came to take Maksim for lunch and we had to leave, I tried hard not to cry...but alas I lost it. The feeling was much like I felt when they came to take McKenna for her tonsillectomy last year....."They're taking my baby!". He really is our baby...now we just need the judge to say, "Da!"