Today marks sixth months that Dasha has been with us and our family.
She has been learning so many things in these last six months.
She is reading and writing in English now. She speaks and understands the English language amazingly well. In fact, she was able to speak with her brother last weekend and she forgot how to talk in Russian at times. She is so focused on learning English that we think that she is pushing her learning of Russian into the back of her brain. She told us that she never went to school except when she was in the orphanage so the writing of her Russian was short too.
She can understand what her brother was saying and she would get frustrated when talking back to him because she would say things to him in half Russian and then half English and then she would say to him..wait a minute (in English...like he would understand that).
She loves to learn and she is so eager to learn how to read big books someday.
Her brother is back at the internat so it is good that she can now speak with him more often. We could not reach him all summer long. We are sending him a care package this week with a note from Dasha.
She is enjoying playing soccer each week and enjoys going to Church activities with the youth group.
Amber is still having a real hard time adjusting to it all, but she still has a special little heart inside of her!! She says at times she loves having a sister and other times she wishes she was an only child again.
Mom and Dad are adjusting to having another child around too. Amazing the cost addition with just one more child in the house.
We will try to keep the blog updated more. It has been a stressful six months adjusting and glad that we have friends to help us through.
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While Sergey would be happy to forget Russian, Valya very much wants to retain her Ukrainian. We do let her watch Ukrainian videos on YouTube. We monitor to make sure the videos are OK, or try to anyway. If Dasha can keep her Russian it would open doors for her later in life for translating or missions work. Valya tells us she would like to go back to Ukraine and tell the little kids, (not the big ones) about Jesus. Interesting how God plants seeds.
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