One month home.....

Things are still pretty crazy here. Getting into a routine with 7 kids here has been rough:) especially since I'm super unorganized and a huge procrastinator!

All the kids are doing good and getting along most of the time. They all argue just like siblings, even our 16 year old exchange student argues with Callen and Kaeden! They both are huge pests and like aggravating her. 

Katya is doing great, she's learned a few English words and is getting better at self care. Amazingly she and Pasha have become pretty close. While I was still in Ukraine she expressed several times when she'd she his pictures that she didn't like him. I think his wheelchair scared her but after me making her use one on the trip home because of her mobility and then me showing her all of her Pashas similarities she's realized they are a lot alike. 

Coloring hearts I drew then she cut them out. 

So far she's been evaluated at the Spina Bifida clinic to start getting referrals for other specialists and been to the dentist. 

I knew her teeth were in bad shape but she started complaining of pain so we had to take her sooner than we had planned. We had hoped to wait until her English was better so she could communicate easier but the pain was too much. She ended up having one tooth extracted on Monday and one filled, we still have at least 2 visits left to get the really bad stuff taken care of. She'll need at least one more tooth extracted:( 

Next week we go have some testing done at the hospital for urology so we will know more after then about our next steps medically. 

Here's me, Katya and Savannah. Pasha was in the seat behind them so you can't see him.

I'll update more on everyone else next time :) 

Here's Katya and Savannah under their blanket fort.

Katya, Kaeden and Pasha 

At the dentist 

Working on tracing and writing the alphabet