Been a long, been a long, been a long time!

Well here I sit at Jimmy T's at 5th and East Capitol SE. Sasha walked to school, (Middle School that is) and I dropped the girls off at their new school on Capitol Hill.

In the car, the girls were singing "God made dirt, and dirt don't hurt" along with other camp songs they learned this summer. What a different time and place from the early adventures of the New Kids on the Hill.

Heidi scooted off to her early morning appointments at Bethesda before her work-a-day Army Guard life starts at National Guard Bureau in Arlington VA. She upgraded (yes again) Scooters to a brand new 300 CC Vespa in Mote Bianca white. This leaves me on Her cast off 200 cc Vespa Granturisimo. :) Meep Meep!  But alas, I have been trapped in theKidmobile (Mazda 5 with extra crumbs under the-seats) these last weeks.

I wanted to update you  guys, my loyal readers from soo long ago, for a long time. I Retired from my National Guard gig after a mere 32years of service at the end of August. Now I am getting organized (ha ha) a bit.

Sasha is in 6th grade at Stuart Hobson Middle School, Christina and Tanya are at Brent Elementary School. Brent is very fashionable public school here in DC There are 300 kids on the wait list to get in. Our Lucky Christina made in on the Lottery this last year and Tanya was number one on the wait list. 

Sasha was in bounds for his Middle school, so he avoided the 200 some odd kids on his schools wait list. We have secured an IEP for him,and now we are working on fine tuning it with the bewildering array of Team Members.

All the kids are active in the Sports On the Hill- Soccer program. Both Sasha and Christina are on travel teams now.

Maxim, the oldest of the four is very happy and living in NewMexico now with his family. Heidi's Brother and sister in-law readopted Max and they are doing very well. He a is in the 6th grade too. He came out and visited the kids for a  week this summer.

Our other "Oldest Kid", Masha, has done very well too. She was such a blessing to us these first years, we have been blessed to be able to return the karma in a small way. We have been her sponsor as a student here in the US, and now she is at American University as a Junior with a full scholarship she earned.

We have somewhat formalized our relationship with Masha by declaring her our God Daughter, and we are her American God Parents.

Thank you all for your prayers and encouragement! Love and life to all.

Erik Brun