And so our long anticipated summer begins! Here is our gang heading off to church... in two vehicles!
Along with our very good friends, Kevin and Jill Cox, I headed up to Atlanta, GA on Friday to attend a training for Homes of Hope International. After the training and a few delays we greeted a group of very tired kids who had traveled about 26 hours across the world to come and be hosted by many excited families. I can only speak for the three that we headed back to Orlando with but they were doing surprisingly well despite being exhausted.
Since we brought home two Sashas... I will refer to the one that is staying with us as "our Sasha" and the one with the Cox family as "their Sasha".
Although he does not know any English, our Sasha jumped right into all kinds of "boy activities" with Hunter on Saturday. They definitely did not need words for biking, rollerblading, airsoft, swimming, Wii, or volleyball. They basically went from one activity to the next all weekend long. He is helpful, polite and easy.
Olga and our girls had much catching up to do as they have been best friends for a long time. Olga does speak a bit of English and is very sweet and quiet. On Sunday we spent the day on the lake and in the pool at the Cox home... it was a day filled with smiles.
Kevin and Jill are thoroughly enjoying their time with their Sasha. He is so bright and is working hard to learn more and more English. It's great that we will be able to hang out altogether this summer. Of course, lying in a hammock and eating pizza is a pretty universal language.
