Sunny Days

This week has been the sunniest and warmest that we've had yet this year. The kids have been playing outside every spare second. It has been amazing how much friendlier the neighborhood has gotten once we had kids. We've had neighbors come out and introduce themselves, comment on our kids, etc. One lady, who our kids had already told about their being from Ukraine, came out and oohed and aaahed to John about how neat it was for us to have adopted, etc. Another man told John that our kids were "very polite." (OUR KIDS?) (Obviously they've never seen them eat their supper!)

Another neighbor has a trampouline in his yard, and a bunch of the neighbor kids were out bouncing yesterday. Ours were right in the thick of things too, and when they came home, they told us how fun the neighbor's "jump-o-line" was. I like that word. All three of them said it like that. Too funny.

Adam and Liana are already getting nice tans. I'm so jealous of their coloring. I go from pasty to burned-to-a-crisp, but nothing in between. Aleksa tans nicely too, but she's been more of a homebody than the other two. She likes hanging out with Mama. *Grin*

We've also gotten out their bikes! Adam is pretty scared of his, and will go practice on it only when we force him to. He prefers his safe-on-the-ground big wheel, which he is about three feet too tall for. (Ok, not quite, but he's getting there!)

Liana is doing the best of the three. She's got the least fear (no surprise here!) So, she'll take more chances and go the furthest without the panic. She'll be petalling around here in no time flat.

Aleksa is a bit little for her bike yet. She doesn't quite "get it." She's perfectly content watching her brother and sister while she runs along beside or behind. That's Leks. Content is a good description of her. She's happy with anything that comes to her. I sure wish I were more like that!