Visiting Our New Addition

Saturday, November 29, Kherson

I slept in Richard and Jacob’s room last night because Jacob was having tummy troubles. I gave him a couple of Children’s Pepto-Bismol the night before but he said that his tummy still hurt. In the past if he said that his tummy was hurting he would end up throwing up some time in the night. Well he was ok all night. I woke up very early around 6:00am and could not go back to sleep. I finally got up around 6:30 and went next door and woke up mother. I knew she wouldn’t mind, since a lot of the time she gets up. We needed to be ready by 10:00am for Ira, so a little after 8:00am we went to the café downstairs. The menu has 4 different breakfasts, ranging from fried eggs w/ham to fish w/bread. All of the food that we have gotten at the café has come with carrots w/vinegarette and pickles. Our breakfast came with a salad of chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, black olives and mushrooms along with eggs sunny side up and ham pieces. Mother does not like anything that is not cooked thoroughly, burnt, or scalding hot. Needless to say she did not enjoy her food. They do have very good hot tea. We have been drinking hot tea for almost every meal. Sometimes Mother and I have only have tea and toast for a meal. Well head back up to our room to await Ira it was almost 11:00am before she is knocking on our door ready to go. We quickly packed up the bags and headed to the lobby. The kind hotel manager let us keep our bags in another room until we found an apartment. We have to travel in two taxis, because of the new the fines if there are too many people in one taxi, to the boarding school. We go to the same room that is in our boys’ living quarters. We loves to play with the PSP and the digital camera. He went around taking pictures of the other kids in his dorm area. Ira had left to do some paper work and to find us an apartment. She came back around 12:30pm and says she has found two possible apartments. They are in the middle of Kherson and close to the school though we will need to take a taxi to the school and back. It is also close to the main street where there are shops and a market. We first go to the Notary’s office to have another document prepared, and signed. Then we go to the apartment that has heat. (Evidently the city is having trouble with their heating) . The apartment is on the fourth floor with no elevator. We will definitely get our exercise. We move our stuff in and settled a bit before we all went back out except Mother. Ira found a toy store we bought a 7-1 game and a small police Lego kit. Well you would have thought it was Christmas when the boy saw all things. He did not know what to do first. I even had brought crayons and a coloring book. He played with one thing for a few minutes and then went to the next thing. Still his favorite thing is the PSP. I am beginning to think that it was a bad idea to bring it to the school at all. Richard finished the Lego kit and Ira helped teach the boy tick-tack-toe. The PSP was played the most. I hope that over the next few days we can play the checkers or chess that we got him. We stayed for about an hour and a half then left back to the apartment. Ira took me and mother to the market, which was very big. We got some things to last a couple of days. When we got back to the apartment, Richard and Jacob were watching a Harry Potter movie in Russian on TV. It was definitely interesting. Ira we back to the friend to get her suitcase and ended up staying with them for the night. Mother and I pulled out the couch and sort of made it up with what we had. It is plenty wide enough for two people though the heat was not working very well and we did not have enough blankets. But we did fine.

Sunday, November 30, Kherson

Mother wakes first and I finally wake up after a fairly good night. I wanted to get ready and have our worship services, so that we would be ready to go to the boarding school at 12:30pm per Ira. We were able to have a good breakfast of scramble eggs (yea for mother) and toast. We had another good service and listen to Ken Weliever’s 3rd sermon on the 23 Psalm. Ira came around 12:30pm and she had to do some paper work before we left to go to the school. The children at the school go to church on Sunday mornings and then have lunch, so we wanted to wait until they got back before we went over. Mother stayed at the apartment and the rest us go over to the school. Mother had brought a teddy bear for our new child, our boy seemed to really like it. Though the PSP was still the main focus of his attention. We did go outside to the playground for a little while. It was good to see Jacob and the boy interact. Jacob was very happy to run and play with him. We said our goodbyes and came back to the apartment. I fixed some mac n cheese, hot dogs, apples, tomatoes and hot tea. We all enjoyed our semi-american dinner. Ira had to go out for a while to work on those papers and came back after dinner. We definitely have a hard working translator that is not afraid to ask anyone to help us move our paper work along faster. She has had the school Director working on Saturday, and is hoping to get the judge give us a early court date. We will see tomorrow how our time table will be. It maybe after Christmas but before the end of the year when we get home. Well everyone has gone to bed and I guess I need to as well. Please keep us in your prayers.