A little about them...

Well I'm sitting here wondering what to post and thought I would tell you a little about the kids. Please keep in mind that we cant discuss details about them but can discuss our experiences...

I. He seems to be your typical 4 year old boy, he loves cars, trucks, anything with wheels and construction equipment. He enjoys being held and swung around, this brings out the best smiles and laughs. He is very coordinated...we played with both kids with a beach ball in the visitors room; he was able to kick the ball with either foot, throw it, catch it and run after it (when he wanted to). He plays well with his sister but loves to color and paint by himself also. One of the projects we did was to paint and build a wooden train engine. He really enjoyed the painting. One thing that truly amazed us was that every time he saw a camera pointed his way his expression immediately changed to a very blank look. If he was laughing or smiling he would purse his lips to avoid having his picture taken with a smile. We found out that they trained the kids to take pictures this way so that they can be looked at and evaluated for physical characteristics of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. He really got trained well! It got to the point that we would laugh every time he saw the camera and "went blank".

K. She is a very curious 7 year old, which is a good thing. She wants to know what is going on around her and wants to join in and help/participate. I think she is already very athletic, she really chased the ball around and kicked it with both feet as well as hit it volley ball style with Gloria. She really likes to color, draw and do puzzles and games. We took a bead kit with us to Russia and K. loved to make necklaces and bracelets and wear them around to show all her friends. Although she gave us the blank look when we first put the camera on her, we told her it was OK to smile and she did the rest of the time. She did great playing the memory game and did not want to stop. She loves to laugh, play and have fun and at the same time is a very good little dancer.

We are getting so anxious about going back to get them...time seems to be going so slow. We have sent them 2 letters with pictures of us and the house and dogs. We think that the first letter is already there...WACAP is going to call to check to see if it arrived. Well thats it for now please keep praying for all of us and our hopes of returning to Russia soon.

Ken and Gloria