♪ i'm going home to the place where i belong ♪ a 5-year-old russian girl is going home for the first time in her young life. her adoptive parents from arkansas are ready to bring her to the united states. but other couples have not been so lucky. >> here is one of the last adoptions that's being allowed. abc's kirit radia brings us is story from moscow. >> reporter: it's a reunion that almost didn't happen. kendra and jason skaggs arrived in moscow to pick up paulina, a 5-year-old orphan with spina bifida, now their adoptive daughter. >> it's a dream come true. >> it doesn't quite hit you yet that we have her and she's ours. >> reporter: paulina is one of the last russian children to be adopted by americans, barely escaping russia's new ban on adoptions to the united states. it went into effect on january 1st. part of russia's retaliation for a set of human rights sanctions passed by the u.s. last year. americans have adopted over 60,000 russian children since