A day OUT with Dima & Anya

Anya as MaMa's hair stylist. And another sneaking into the picture.
Anya's first pizza!
Dima's first pizza!
Height comparison for Grandma.
Fried Ukrainian food at "the" Market

Hello everyone,

This is Kade speaking. Yeah God, we got to take them out of the orphanage today!! Today we took Dima & Anya to lunch at the pizzaria. Dima enjoyed his pizza! I really enjoyed it because Dima and Anya got to eat pizza for the first time. We took them back to the orphanage and got to see them again and play with them this afternoon also. I really enjoyed getting to see them almost all day.

Thank you for all the comments.

Kade:)

Hi, (from Scott)

Well now for some more detailed news. The market we went to yesterday wore us out. We were told that it spans about 2 kilometers in diameter. Wow! it was huge. We did great though, getting enough clothes for Dima and Anya to at least make it home. We would like to get a few more things, but we don't have to. We even tried some of the food at the market. It was some kind of meat mixture fried in sort of a eggroll wrap and deep fried. They had many things inside these fried shells; chicken legs, chicken, cabbage, other veggies, etc. Very interesting, but authentic Ukrainian food. We had a great time. We were there from 10:30 until 2:30 and we didn't even get through half of it. Kayla and I are posting simultaneously again to save time, so I am sorry if our comments are redundant. We took Dima and Anya to get passport photos today. It was so fun just to be with them out of the orphanage. The best part I think, besides seeing them eat pizza for the first time was the taxi rides. The 5 of us and our translator packed into a large taxi by Ukraine standards and we enjoyed looking at all of the construction equipment and other sites, then Anya started mocking Dima's every word and action and then Kade chimed in for a great show. The only thing interupting the "mocking" was belly laughs from all of us. I think even the taxi driver was amused. I think it was the best time to date in Ukraine. I am looking forward to tomorrow when we will take the kids for some mild shopping and lunch again. Dima wants pizza again, but Anya doesn't. :) Either way it will be great. Then on friday we will get to spend the entire day with them to celebrate Dima's birthday. Yeah God. How will we be able to take them back to the orphanage after that?!?

Oh by the way, who was the person at the office all by yourself crying from the blog? We want to know who you are. Thanks for reading and posting. We found another translator who helped us in court on Monday. She works for a church here in Kharkov. She gave us the names of the minister and his wife and we are going to meet them for dinner in the next few days. God is so good at organizing things like this. It is so nice to meet people like this, especially half way around the world. By the way where is all of the down time we were supposed to have. It seems we are just as busy here as in OKC.??? Oh well, it helps the days go faster and reminds us that God is watching us, leading us, helping us, and loving us.

Well that's enough for now from me. We'll talk again soon. Have a great Wednesday everyone!

Enjoying every moment of being a dad of three,

Scott