Boys will be boys

Ok, so the first night back in Kiev at the apartment, our facilitator had a sofa bed folded out for both boys to sleep on together in the second bedroom/sitting-room. Well, you can imagine how that went putting two giggling, goofy kids together! After about 30 minutes of giggling,talking, and poking, I remembered that there was a cot in the apartment and folded that out on the other side of the room. Riley actually volunteered to sleep on that because he was tired and his little brother was bugging him. Last night they did better and we don't mind a little bit of talking a giggling before sleep. That is to be expected. And then their Dad had to go by the room and stop in and let out one of the biggest burps I have ever heard. Then I hear huge giggling and laughing from all three of them. It's wonderful thing to hear a couple boys and their dad cracking each other up. They have already started with the fart and burping jokes, even with the language barrier they seem to understand that kind of humor!

They are good boys but very active and we need to get used to that! We were exhausted last night and I know all of you with kids out there are laughing and understand. Especially my sister-in-law, Linda, who deals with three kids every day. She has been waiting for her brother to chase after kids and get a feel for parent hood! The boys have their "brother" moments with some head locks and fighting and Jake starts crying because Riley did something mean to him. But overall, they really are good kids. Riley wants to help me with everything. He wants to set the table and wash dishes every meal. Whoo hoo, I can use a kid like that!

Cooking is still a challenge here, even in Kiev, and I will be glad to be home in my own kitchen. There are so many foods these guys have never seen or tried before. And thank goodness for a washer and dryer at home because Jake gets dirty in five seconds. We have bought a couple of outfits here because they were filthy the first day! There was a second hand clothing store and we got t-shirts and some sweat pants. The weather has turned really chilly.

Thanks again to everyone for their prayers and support. It means so much to us. Love, Pam