We're hearing lots of English around here lately. This morning at breakfast, Aleksa said, "Ya fast budu banana eat." (I'm going to eat my banana fast.") Half English, half Russian/Ukrainian all over the place. Yesterday I forgot to mention that I put in a Russian children's cd and Aleksa's eyes got big. She went over and stared at the speakers transfixed until the cd ended. They understood it all, but they are not speaking it fluently anymore. They are doing lots more hand gestures as they speak, sound effects, and replacing the English words in their sentences. I've mentioned before that Liana is using the word "maybe" like crazy. When Aleksa asked for some water, Liana said, "English, Aleksa, English!"

Today when we visited the family with nine children, Adam got upset or overly excited, or I-don't-know-what-because-I-wasn't-in-the-room, he grabbed one of the boys on the arm and clawed him leaving nasty fingernail marks. I was not a happy camper. Too much excitement I think. Everyone was showing him everything (and they have a GAZILLION toys), plus the boys were excitedly talking to him, etc. Maybe the language frustration got to him too. Whatever it was, it came out on poor Joey's arm. Never had to handle a situation like that. Hard to handle such times while you're at someone else's house.

Regardless, I enjoyed seeing how her homeschool works and looking through her curriculum. Learned some great stuff today. (If you are on the fence with homeschooling, send for a free catalog from Sonlight and check out their stuff. Neat, neat, neat set-up. Love it.)

Anyway, that's about all for tonight. I think that once we hit Month Three I'll only post once a week or so unless something really comes up. These posts are getting kinda dry and toasty now that the kids are settling in...