First home visit

When we were doing all our paperwork at home, we had multiple home visits from caseworkers. In Poland, it's no different. So today, we had our first home visit which involved a translator, a psychologist, and the director of the Adoption Center. Most of their questions involved our impressions of the children, if anything surprised us, what our routine is, did we like the apartment (they said the apartment is much nicer than the lift (elevator)!), etc. They also wanted to know our school plans for the fall, medical appointments, and to know that we've been well prepared for the usual adoption issues. 

They also asked the kids some questions. These were some of the responses/questions from the kids:

"In this place, the kids are in charge!" (Really?! Maybe we need more rules! But it makes me definitely feel okay about creating more boundaries. They can handle it.)

"When do we get to fly to America?" 

When told they need to learn more Polish, they said, "We don't want to learn English. When we get to America, people will just talk Polish to us. Besides, our parents are learning Polish and we can communicate just fine."

I think the visit went well. They made a couple of suggestions and gave us some helpful information. We also need to enforce a couple of things, but couldn't explain why they had to do these things. These ladies were very helpful about explaining to the kids why. And we need to change one thing, but yes, the visit went well. I believe we will have just one more visit in a couple of weeks and then we will have our court date the week after that. 

We are going out for Polish pizza with our translator tonight. The kids put ketchup on their pizza at home, so it will be interesting to see how it's different.