Friday, February 13, 2009

So, it's 6:26pm Friday night here (10:26am for most of you) and we just got back from a visit to our boys in the orphanage. We are actually glad it's the weekend. We have not had a single day since our arrival that we have woken up without an alarm clock. Hopefully, we will sleep well tonight and then can just snooze for a while in the morning....if Jackson will allow it! We are going to miss seeing our boys, though. We had a really fun visit today. We learned that the Russian word for brother is "brat---pronounced Brot" (once again, no idea on spelling) so we asked both boys about Jackson being their brat and they said "da"! They both called us Mama and Papa and both called him by name. It was really cute and really sweet. The oldest boy (Slavic for now) had drawn a picture of a clown and he wrote some words on there. We asked what it said and he said "Slavic blah-blah-blah". We couldn't understand the blah-blah-blah of course...maybe he said Slavic's clown? Anyway, it made us realize that he already knows his letters....and a lot of them are different to ours. For example, a R here is a P. At TGI Friday's, the Oreo dessert said Opeo! Anyway, we are going to have a job ahead of us re-teaching him his letters! Only with God's help, of course. We went out to lunch before going to the orphanage, so Carol got to get out of the house for a while too. We plan on hanging out here tomorrow, unless the weather is better. If it is, we plan on walking to a park nearby. Otherwise, we have set up for our driver to come on Sunday and take us to get pizza and go shopping. Our paperwork is in processing and we are still prayerful that we will get a court date late next week....please pray for that with us. But, we will have to give our names to our facilitator by Monday, so I will let you all know what we decide! Love you all and miss you so much!

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  1. You are on our minds constantly and I pray that
    everything is going as planned, but I am having a time thinking of going from ONE TO THREE!!! It should be a lot of fun, and work,
    having them close to the same age, and hopefully, they will enjoy a lot of the same
    things; activities, sports, school, church and
    especially, food. Do you think the new boys
    will like cheese & mac? Ha
    Certainly hope you're finding food there that
    you enjoy eating.
    Remember I love you very much and I'm always
    looking forward to your blogs. Just keep them
    coming!!

    Mama

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