Hi Everyone-
Here are a couple pics from the other day- just for fun and because I think that it makes my blog more colorful! This week has been full of surprises- both good and not so fun. On the good side (YAH, we love good things) I really think the kids are starting to think in English. We knew they understood most of what was being said in English before but in the last couple days I have seen a real switch, especially in Ana, in the way she phrases things and I think (in my completely unprofessional, slanted, biased way) that she is brilliantly switching in her mind between English and Russian and making a concerted effort and progress to converse more in English. She knows her school starts tomorrow and is sooo excited about it and I think she wants to be able to talk to her classmates and knows this is the best way. Mommy is a little bit scared about school - I know it is only 3 mornings a week and she is ready and dying to go but what if she freaks out? What if she is scared? What if the teacher can’t understand her? I know, she will be fine- just keep telling me that! Aaron is going to put together a little Russian primer for the teacher today- the issue is that lots of Russian words actually sound like swear words in English and they are, of course, the ones our kids use often. We dont want any misunderstandings so I think it is best if they speak English in public (when possible) and if Aaron makes a list of common Russian toddler words for her teacher. Lets hope that goes well.
On the bad side poor Sasha had to go to the doctor AGAIN yesterday. We went just to get his stitches out and thought it would be a quick in and out but the doctor took a look at a boo boo on his bottom (he gets rashes and scratches them) and decided it was not a rash but rather an infection and to cut it open for a better look! Well, when you go in for a quick 2 stitches removal and end up with a scalpel to your bum, your day has gone from okay to not so fun. Poor little guy- he was very very unhappy. They biopsied the boo boo and we shall see. He is on really strong antibiotics while we wait it out! It is odd how things work out, in Russia we were told that Sasha was healthy as a horse and that Ana was the one to be a bit concerned about in terms of health and now that we are home and settling in and going to the doctor it is our poor Sasha who needs to have tonsil/adenoid surgery, had stitches in his noggin, has this infection etc. He has had a way worse time of it physically than she has- which was a surprise for sure. I just hope we can get this all sorted out quickly and stop visiting the doctor. Thankfully it is nothing serious really - it is all standard kid illnesses but still it is hard to watch him be unhappy at the doctor's office!
I still haven’t scheduled his tonsil surgery- we are waiting to see if we can do a "twofer" with a circumcision (I know, it just gets worse for him, doesn’t it?) but there is some question as to if they will allow that. They should, it would mean general anesthesia (sp?) only once which is way way safer but because the circumcision can be considered elective they may not. (please no comments on if we should or should not circumcise- that is a choice we will make, no flames please) Which would mean tonsils now, and we go back to the drawing board and discuss all over again how we feel about the other thing. We had made our minds up- for social, emotional, health related reasons but this is sort of a roadblock and we will need to re-evaluate if they won’t do it this way for us. I have strong feelings about putting a small child under and I am not sure if I can allow it twice. We will have to think hard on this and I will keep you posted.
Here are a couple pics from the other day- just for fun and because I think that it makes my blog more colorful! This week has been full of surprises- both good and not so fun. On the good side (YAH, we love good things) I really think the kids are starting to think in English. We knew they understood most of what was being said in English before but in the last couple days I have seen a real switch, especially in Ana, in the way she phrases things and I think (in my completely unprofessional, slanted, biased way) that she is brilliantly switching in her mind between English and Russian and making a concerted effort and progress to converse more in English. She knows her school starts tomorrow and is sooo excited about it and I think she wants to be able to talk to her classmates and knows this is the best way. Mommy is a little bit scared about school - I know it is only 3 mornings a week and she is ready and dying to go but what if she freaks out? What if she is scared? What if the teacher can’t understand her? I know, she will be fine- just keep telling me that! Aaron is going to put together a little Russian primer for the teacher today- the issue is that lots of Russian words actually sound like swear words in English and they are, of course, the ones our kids use often. We dont want any misunderstandings so I think it is best if they speak English in public (when possible) and if Aaron makes a list of common Russian toddler words for her teacher. Lets hope that goes well.
On the bad side poor Sasha had to go to the doctor AGAIN yesterday. We went just to get his stitches out and thought it would be a quick in and out but the doctor took a look at a boo boo on his bottom (he gets rashes and scratches them) and decided it was not a rash but rather an infection and to cut it open for a better look! Well, when you go in for a quick 2 stitches removal and end up with a scalpel to your bum, your day has gone from okay to not so fun. Poor little guy- he was very very unhappy. They biopsied the boo boo and we shall see. He is on really strong antibiotics while we wait it out! It is odd how things work out, in Russia we were told that Sasha was healthy as a horse and that Ana was the one to be a bit concerned about in terms of health and now that we are home and settling in and going to the doctor it is our poor Sasha who needs to have tonsil/adenoid surgery, had stitches in his noggin, has this infection etc. He has had a way worse time of it physically than she has- which was a surprise for sure. I just hope we can get this all sorted out quickly and stop visiting the doctor. Thankfully it is nothing serious really - it is all standard kid illnesses but still it is hard to watch him be unhappy at the doctor's office!
I still haven’t scheduled his tonsil surgery- we are waiting to see if we can do a "twofer" with a circumcision (I know, it just gets worse for him, doesn’t it?) but there is some question as to if they will allow that. They should, it would mean general anesthesia (sp?) only once which is way way safer but because the circumcision can be considered elective they may not. (please no comments on if we should or should not circumcise- that is a choice we will make, no flames please) Which would mean tonsils now, and we go back to the drawing board and discuss all over again how we feel about the other thing. We had made our minds up- for social, emotional, health related reasons but this is sort of a roadblock and we will need to re-evaluate if they won’t do it this way for us. I have strong feelings about putting a small child under and I am not sure if I can allow it twice. We will have to think hard on this and I will keep you posted.
SKB
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Ouch! Poor Sasha! We circumcised Garret too, no flames here. I hope they do both procedures at once. That would be very helpful. Oh, and our insurance agency said that an adopted child would be covered at any age for the surgery because we didn’t have the chance to get it done with they were newborns. Yours should cover it too.
Oh, and I love the pictures of the kids! They look so healthy!
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