Passing time at the park

Getting ready to come home...

It's been an exhausting adventure! We are ready to come home!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNALEISE!

Annaleise is 6 today!

Family time in our flat

Learning the ABC's

We've downloaded some short Sesame Street video clips. The kids love Cookie Monster and the "letter of the day". They are starting to sing the ABC song along with the puppets.

I fixed homemade mac and cheese for our first dinner. It was a disaster! The kids do not like cheese in their noodles! Also, they don't like chocolate chip cookies. For breakfast, we gave them Cocoa-Puffs. What child doesn't like Cocoa-Puffs? We couldn't understand why they wouldn't eat them. The problem was that I got buttermilk instead of regular milk. Nothing is in English, I saw the Ukrainian word for milk, but didn't notice the smaller word underneath!

Here's what we found they like: dried sardine fish and milk soup. These little fish are packaged similar to beef jerky. All three love them! Milk soup is noodles (cooked to death) with warm milk and sugar.

We did make it to McDonald's today. They loved their Happy Meal toys and French fries -- we had to coerce them to eat half their hamburger.

We stopped at a nice park on the way home. They loved playing on the monkey bars and playing tag with dad!

Looking at Tractors

The kids love to look out the window at the construction next door. When I come to see what's going on, they talk a mile a minute in Ukraine. The only thing I recognize is "tractor".