Spring Cleaning Day - Bonding Day

Today all over Kazakhstan was Spring Cleaning Day.  All schools students and business employees go to clean their respective buildings.  They cleaned, re-painted, did yard work.  Pretty impressive.  At Kids Village it was the same!  All the children and staff were outside freshening up the buildings and surrounding areas. During this time, Kids Village plants a couple trees each year.  This year they wanted us to plant a tree with D right in front of his house.  They said that they wanted to name the tree after him so that they could remember him after he went to America.  To say that this 4 year old was a BIG help planting the tree was an understatement.  He wanted to do EVERYTHING that Dustin did.  He was holding the shovels and kept saying that he could do it himself; he never got tired and never lost interest!  It's hard work for a little boy, but what a trooper!  They only wanted him to hold the tree, but he HAD to dig the hole with his Papa...too cute!

We were so impressed with Kids Village and so happy that they let us be a part of this experience!

Not to mention, we saw first hand what help he will be back at home!!!  :)