Hey everyone. 8:54pm here on Monday night (12:54pm there) and we just finished a game with Jackson and are winding down for the night. We had a great visit with the boys today. We had bought them each a coloring book with corresponding stickers to match up to numbers in the book. Those boys (including Jackson) worked on those books for about an hour! It was great! But, we have a really big prayer request for Philip (the oldest). He is not very interested in speaking any English with us right now. Ryan was repeating numbers for us today as Iwe were helping him with the stickers and Philip said one number after he heard us praise Ryan so much. It was actually funny hearing them try to repeat our southern accents! Anyway, Philip began writing out the Cyrillic alphabet and making Ryan repeat him. He would correct him if he didn't do it the right way. Our translator was sick today and didn't go with us, so I got our driver Yari to ask him if he was ready to learn English and he said "in America". So, I guess he's not going to try before then......well, we would like you to pray with us that his attitude softens toward learning English a little bit. Obviously, he is going through a lot of changes right now and we want to be very patient with him....but, we would prefer that the English comes sooner than later! We had pizza again for lunch....Jackson's request and headed on home. We have just spent the rest of the day hanging out together.

But, the biggest part of the day was probably my baby losing his first tooth. It has been extremely loose for our whole trip, but today it finally let go and came out. Unfortunately, the tooth washed down the drain of the sink. Greg was helping him brush his teeth and he saw what he thought was a lump of toothpaste and washed it on down the drain! So, we went ahead and gave Jackson what we thought the tooth fairy was going to give him for his first lost tooth. We gave him 40 grievna (I spelled this how it sounds) which currently equals around 5 dollars. He can't wait to spend it! He has already got his eye on a couple of build-it-yourself robots that are 20 grievna each! One more day to go before our court date! We love you and miss you all!