Well today, we found out that our kids are NOT perfect!! Yes, we are as surprised as you are! ;-)
Today was the first time, they have tried us. We went to the museum in Kiev that has numerous World War 2 and later military vehichles. Zhenya enjoyed it....Leeza not so much...... Not surprising really. When we were leaving, we were walking down steps toward a VERY busy road and Leeza was told to stop to wait for papa...but completely ignored us. She is also quite clumsy on the steps and we didn't want her to fall into the road. No excuse for the language barrier since "STOP" is the same in both languages. When papa caught her and said Nyet!(no)...she laughed. She got the evil eye from mama.....didn't phase her at all. Then she refused to hold papa's hand to walk across the street. Of course she was made to anyway...papa just grabbed her hand and started walking. She didn't cry or anything..but this is the first time she has not listened to us. Then our sweet boy (back at the apartment) was being curious and plugging in something he didn't need to touch. Mama was cooking dinner and could hear papa repeating saying Nyet and shockingly hearing sass from Zhenya!! Believe me, sassy is easy to recognize in any language. Mama walked into the room and told him to "Slu shai" Papa. Which means "Listen" and then proceeded to show him that he would have to sit down for a bit if he did not listen. He got the message and gave me the cutest grin. My Russian is a bit better than Jeff's and I know a few more words that are parental...normally I would not interfere with papa's directives, but the message was not getting across at that point. Alas, I know this is just the beginning and actually wasn't that bad...except the road thing was scary. I however am just so surprised my kids aren't perfect!!!! ;-) I told Jeff that these are signs that they are getting comfortable with us...which is a good thing and we are going to have to be tough and stand our ground when they don't mind. Oh yea....Zhenya is a bit of a pouter! But he quickly gets in good spirits after receiving "The Look!".
By the way, the museum was really cool and we took tons of pictures. We will download them later!
We went to the U.S Consulate today and turned in a bunch of paperwork for the kid's visas. Tomorrow we got back at 2 pm for an interview and to receive their visas. Have I mentioned that adopting required TONS of paperwork!? I think we have killed several trees in this process.
Our internet service is out of minutes so we have to go places with free WiFi...like now we are sitting in McDonald's. Our kids are going to think that we eat ice cream at McDonalds every day!
Well two more sleeps and we head home!! Yippee!
Please continue to pray!
Love you all!
Jeff, Sheila, Zhenya and Leeza
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