Our Little Russian Peanut: May 2009

Friday, May 22, 2009

Music to my ears

There is nothing better then hearing this sound at the end of a long week (or in this case, a long few months...) of work. Andrew and Keith were playing on the swingset and the laughing was just completely contagious.

Giggles.mp3

P.S. Sorry for the fuzzy quality... I have no clue what I'm doing with this video to audio conversion stuff! :-)

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Memories

Most people usually start these big milestone blog posts out like "One year ago today..." but since I'm two days late and more than two dollars short, my post is going to have to start out a little differently. And here we go!

One year and two days ago, Keith and I walked into the Sonata Orphanage in Lubertsy, Russia with butterflies in our bellies. We were nervous, excited, horrified and elated to name a few of the millions of emotions flowing through us. I remember driving down the bumpy road to the orphanage thinking "what have I gotten myself into!" only to be pleasantly surprised when we walked in the front door of the homey orphanage.

At that point, we were told that little Vasa was down for his nap and we'd have to wait a while to see him. The sweet orphanage director allowed us to tip toe into his room to take a peek at him while he slept. There is absolutely nothing more sweet then seeing a child sleep and even sweeter - thinking and hoping that this child is going to be sleeping in your arms, your house, with you very, very soon.

Some of my favorite memories from that day: Seeing Andrew's little belly sticking out while the doctor examined him, watching him cling to his caregiver when he first saw us, playing Hungry Hungry Hippo and letting him win, seeing the amazement in his eyes when he figured out how to turn the noisy hammer on and off, feeding him cheerios for the first time and seeing him smile ever so slightly and pink tights and a princess sweatshirt... Oooooooo... I could go on and on and on!!

May 19, 2008

May 2009

We have quite the big boy on our hands, don't we?

I'll leave this blog post with a cute little conversation I had with Andrew tonight.

Becky: "Andrew, can you please take this bag and throw it in the blue trashcan?"

Andrew takes the bag and says... "Sure. And thank you so much for asking me so nicely, Mom."

Hehehe... apparently we've been working on asking nicely for things, huh? Good to know I've got a passing grade.

Off to bed!

Becky

Monday, May 11, 2009

The Land of the Living

Where did time go?? My sister emailed me this morning to kindly remind me that I've been neglecting my blog. I thought "it hasn't been too long" and low and behold, my last post was in April! Needless to say, we've been pretty busy. Busy weekends and busy weeks have left with me little energy at night!

In the interest of catching you up, how about some pictures from the past few weekends?

We had our first lake day! Good to see that we're still experiencing wardrobe malfunctions!

Alex had his Junior/Senior Prom! Hard to believe he's old enough to go the prom. He went with his girlfriend, Lindsey and a group of friends.

The next weekend, we took a ride to Alabama to visit some friends! Our in-real-life-blogger friend, Melissa was heading to Ron and Dinia's (who we met while in Moscow and are ever so greatful for!) to take pictures for Ron's family reunion. We had a chance to spend some time with everyone and finally meet the rest of the Warrens!

Alex and Andrew took advantage of Ron and Dinia's pool. Andrew drank half the pool and swam in the other half. He's unstoppable. At one point, he was brave enough to go off the diving board on his own. I can't believe I'm about to tell this story but I was in the water waiting for him to jump in when I saw a shocked and funny look come across his face. I said "Did you just poop?" He said "Yes." Keith said "You just pooped?!?!" He said "No." Needless to say, I flew out of the pool grabbed him off the dining room and became especially thankful for the nets in boys bathing suits. I think the gallons of water and juice he drank finally caught up to him. :-)

Post diving board incident

Dinia and Ron's house was the perfect setting for a couple of quick photos of the boys!

And here is Melissa and I! This is my third in real life meeting with Melissa and her family and they are just awesome. Iliya is just as cute in person as he is in pictures.

After some time at Dinia and Ron's we headed to Auburn to visit with one of Keith's best friends, Troy. We spent the night there and then Troy took Alex on an unofficial tour of Auburn. He liked it and so we'll be heading there for an official tour this summer!

And that about sums it up! I had a great Mother's Day weekend and am counting down the days until our vacation! 19 and counting.... We're trying to get through Alex's finals, finish Andrew's readoption paperwork and get through two projects at work - all in the next 19 days!

Happy Mother's Day (belated!) to all of the seasoned, first time and soon to be mom's!

Becky