Sunday, April 25, 2010

Day 10

Our bonding days are flying by! Today we had a couple other kids that wanted to come play with D and us, so we all painted and drew away the morning. We worked on some English words a little more, he can count to 10 with help and our favorite is when he gets to 3 which he pronounces as flea (so cute)! His fave new English word is bubbles. We brought some today thinking that he probably wouldn’t be interested…boy were we wrong. It was bubbles, bubbles, bubbles for the rest of the time! Catch bubbles with your hands, shoot bubbles with an airplane, catch bubbles on the wand. Make tiny bubbles, big bubbles and of course eat the bubbles!!! We would have never guessed he would have so much fun with bubbles! A 10 year old girl in D’s house brought me a book in English today to show me that she will start working with D everyday to teach him English! I was so impressed! Of course, the book was an adult grammar book, but we loved her sweetness!
We are doing great but are sooo hot! They turned the heat off at our translator’s apartment, but not at ours yet…we are crossing our fingers for any day! Today we were going to paper, rock, scissors to see who had to cook dinner in the hot kitchen, but luckily Dust just said he would do it! We went back to the bazaar to try round 2 for jeans for D. Found some that we think will work, but I thought that last time!!! Today I remembered the measuring tape though!
The Stone’s

6 Comments:

At April 25, 2010 at 8:20 AM , Blogger lisa said...

This is all so exciting. I am so happy to meet you guys through your blog. I may be traveling very soon to Almaty, it will be nice to know another Texan who has a Kaz cutie! (There are about 30 Kaz kids in Brenham) Have you met Susan Moore from austin?

Have a great time...the heat has to go! I guess you get that all over Europe, I can't stand it! They must be very cold natured?

Lisa

 
At April 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM , Anonymous Tanya said...

Wow it sounds amazing at the Kids Village. I am so glad that the bonding days are flying by quickly. Here's hoping that all your paperwork changes get finalized quickly and that you can get a court date real soon!
Take care,
Tanya

 
At April 25, 2010 at 6:29 PM , Blogger Mel said...

Hi guys!
I've been following bits and pieces of your journey and want to say congrats!
Our family hopes to travel soon and any pointers you can share would be greatly appreciated (when you have the spare time).
Bubbles! I've heard they are a kid favorite over there, and hope to grab some for trip.
Thanks for the great read!
~Mel
http://viatorfamily.blogspot.com/

 
At April 25, 2010 at 8:56 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am another blog lurker comming out. I am so darn excited for you. We adopted our son from Uralsk almost three years ago and we are in the process again and hoping to adopted a 3-5 year old. I love hearing about your experiences. The ohter cool thing is that we have an exchange student living with us who is from Pavlador.

Karon
http://kazakkidroundtwo.blogspot.com

 
At April 25, 2010 at 9:59 PM , Blogger tac said...

So glad to hear that things are going well.. We were in Karaganda around this time last year...

First the heat was turned off, then we lost cold water for a few days, then, lost hot water for a couple of weeks (actually we only got to take hot showers because we left of Almaty)

Good luck with everything and enjoy the Kaz experience.

 
At April 25, 2010 at 10:55 PM , Blogger Molly said...

Continuing to be so excited about everything for you all in Pavlodar!!!
All the very best to you and your little dude D!
Very Best,
Sparhawks
Kirkland, WA

 

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