Hightlight of the Week

Great visit with Maxim - especially when the head instructor tells us she has taught him to pray to God since he came to their orphanage - for a mother and father to be a family, and when Maxim asks - when can you take me? He also continuously asks, when will you be back?

Good visits with Tanya - when she wants to go play with us instead of her kids group when we show up today. They where dressed out to play outside (only -5 degrees celsius but with sun shining). So we are outside and she throws snow at me and I return a pile of fresh snow at her and she turns just in time for it to hit her in the face and she simply wipes it off and spits it out and rolls over, gets up, and keeps going without a fuss!

Then, when we return to the building and can't find her group and the head caregiver who always gives us trouble tells us you should of checked with your caregiver where they would be when you returned and Tania responds for all of us - "I did do that!"

Last night, when Sasha and I played hit the balloon back and forth for a while, dancing to the audio file from a cell phone, great fun. Then he has to go take a bath and returns to us finally clean and combs his hair nicely in front of us and then proceeds to pull out the English learning book and goes thru it slowly and confidently with Vova (Masha's brother) and is now asking us when we will return?

With Christina - she has begun to return to being like Papa's little girl again. She is a lively one and the language barrier I think is harder on her, but she is coming around.

Thanks all for your continued encouragement and prayers!

Love and miss ya

-Heidi and Erik