What a kid will do to get out of mowing the lawn!

Yesterday, Sasha jump over a sign at Buttercup Park and fell. The doctor thought he had a broken elbow, the radiologist thought he had two broken wrists. We get to see a specialist next week to find out his opinion.

Either way, Sasha is enjoying the attention he is getting. Apparently, after they finished with the doctor the second time he insisted they stop to show his friend Michael. He was with Michael when this happened and Michael just happens to live across the street from Buttercup Park.

It was good that they stopped. Michael's mother was worried about Sasha. She had him put some ice on his arm after he fell, went upstairs for a minute and when she came back down Sasha had left to go home.

Poor David did not have a good day yesterday. He turned on the sprinklers and everything worked. He went inside for a little bit and he could hear water running. He looked out side and the water pipe that goes to our garden had broken. There isn't a valve to shut this line off by all the other valves, it has a hand turn valve right by the garden so he had to shut down the whole watering system so he could fix the break. He had to dig down aways to get to the pipe, as he was digging he dug into a nest of ants who then bit him on his legs and arms. He fixed the pipe, turned on the water and the pipe broke in another spot. I was there when the pipe broke the second time. It sounded like an explosion. We will be fixing that pipe tonight - what a fun Friday night.

Anyway, with the sprinklers, the ants, some strange news from work and taking Sasha to the doctor twice - what a day.

Friends

Just another comment. It always amazes me the friendships you develop after being associated with people who have adopted or are think about adopting from Ukraine. There is just such an automatic bond with anyone who has been involved with this activity.

I talked with someone on the phone last night who will be leaving for Ukraine soon and the feelings that come out from that short phone call have been amazing. You hope that all will go well for them and you hope they will have an easy experience while they are in Ukraine and you are thrilled that they are going through this process. There is also a willingness to help with anything to make their trip easier.

I am always amazed and grateful that I have been able to meet such wonderful people since we have gone through this process. Everyone has been such a big help. Just having someone to talk things through when things are tough has been wonderful. It is always much better to talk to people who have gone through the experience because they understand more about what you are going through.

I know this is probably sappy but I know that many of you reading this feel the same way.

Language Skills

Last Saturday was a kids day. Tania had Dosha and Sveta come to our house and Sasha went to a birthday party for a friend at school.

Since Dosha and Sveta were over, I decided for lunch we would go to Crown Burger and then run a few errands. After we had ordered our meal, I told the girls they had an option. If they spoke English they could sit at the same table as Katelyn and me or if they wanted to speak Ukrainian they would need to sit at a different table. They chose to sit with Katelyn and me.

We all got a chuckle though when we picked up our food, we didn't get enough straws and Tania was left without a straw. She pointed at Sveta's straw and asked if there were any more of "those things". Sveta in her deep Ukrainian voice (I wish you could hear her voice, writing this down just does not give it justice) said, "Tania you should know that word by now". Tania was a little embarrassed but she also laughed at herself. In reality, I think she was just having a moment and she really knows the word straw.

Later that day we were on our way to meet Bill and Leslie at the movie theatre to see the movie Iron Man 2. After the movie Bill and Leslie were going to take Dosha and Sveta home. Well we ended up taking two cars since we had the three girls and Sasha and two of his friends wanted to come also. You would think that since we are now a family of six we would get a vehicle that could hold 6 people but no we just keep our two little cars. We do have a truck that can hold six but it isn't very comfortable.

Anyway, I called David to see what route he was going to take to the theatre. Sasha answered his phone and I asked him if his dad was there. He told me "he is in the wheelchair". I could hear David in the background laughing and correcting Sasha. He was in the drivers seat not a wheel chair.


Sorry to bore you with this account. We got such a giggle about both events. I had to write about it.