Today is Katya's Birthday & Our Anniversary.

Piano Lessons with Mrs. Everitt. She did great with the kids!

Natasha with a Guinea Pig at our friends home Sunday Evening.
We shared our CHAI message with them, and the kids had a lot of fun together.

It is the start of the day here, 6:27am on Our Anniversary & Katya's Birthday.

We suited up for skating and hockey yesterday. Had piano lessons for Andri, Natasha, & Sophia. All went great. I can honestly say that all our children are quick learners.

Katya has been trying out her new computer, and I will send a message to as many people that I can with the address. The only problem is we don't think Juno can handle the Russian/English input, or something. So we might need to get a different account. Our next Step is Skype.

Katya cooked soup for us yesterday. It was great. Jonathan doesn't like any kind of soup, so I had to explain to her that it wasn't her soup. He sat at the table for awhile "trying it out".

Yesterday I biked with Natasha & Sophia while children took turns on the computer in 1/2 hour increments, and when Natasha & Sophia took their turn, I biked with Andri. A great way to get a little excercise in! Did some laundry as well.

By about 3pm I was shot and everyone took a quiet time! We finished the evening with piano lessons, and The Sound of Music movie with popcorn and 1 can of pop.

I have more photos on a different camera of the lemonade stand they had yesterday with a neighbor girl.

Our only problems are keeping up with anything left out, or not put away, and for me it's pretty loud around here so I ask them to keep it down. And when I say no, it's sometimes a huge disappointment, so a few things to work on. Andri & the boys had their first "big" fight yesterday over turning the fan on or not. It was all a misunderstanding, and we worked it out. Those 3 need to use their WORDS...will be my schooling to them. A few tears, and no bumps or bruises. And they made up as far as I can tell.

Andri prayed the other night and thanked Jesus for Mama & Papa, and I'm not sure what else as it was in Ukrainian. He asked me yesterday when he is going back to Ukraine, so I think he's still trying to figure things out. He said he was happy to be in America and loved it. I think because he came once and returned, it just seems like that will happen again.

I have told all the girls that on good days or bad, that we never want them to leave us. And I am not sure if I have had that same "conversation" in my broken Russian/Ukrainian/English.

Please pray for 4 more host families for children this summer. The deadline is this Friday! Thank-you so much!

Love from Chris & Alesia