Things still going well

When we came into the living quarters today, where we normally come, the children where making these cone shape Santa Clauses. They were very detailed for kids this age. The teachers seem to really take pride in the children's acitivities. There is a wonderful winter collage that the children have made together. It looks like the background was painted first, then the children cut out snowmen, trees, houses, snowflakes etc. I want to get a good picture of it before we leave. This picture to the right is another really neat picture. I am not sure when this was made. Our new boy seemed subdue today but not sure why. Maybe there is something in the air, since the rest of us are too. He could be missing our translator, who has been in Kiev for the past few days. I know that his teaches have told him what is going on but our translator and him have become close over the past few days. We are hoping that his mother, who still comes to visit him occasionally, will not cause him any problems. We did run into the mother, well sort of run into the other day. She was sitting in a corner of one of the rooms as we walked by. The children's caretaker was ushering us quickly into the room we play with our new boy and not until our translator told us later did we know that it was her. She d0es not have any parental rights because they have been taken away. Once the parental rights have been taken away they can't be reinstated. We hope that our time with him over the next few weeks will increase our bond with him and his trust in us. I also wanted to show you our translator Ira. She could be the president of Ukraine or negoiate a peace treaty for a country. She will ask anyone and I believe if she had to the president of Ukraine for help with our paper work. We definitely could not have accomplished everything that has been done without her.

I have also posted new photos.

Hope to have good news about our appointment tomorrow. Till tomorrow.