Settling in

I'm tired lol.  It's been a pretty low key day, too.  I'm hoping we can start to settle into a routine and establish ways to communicate.  Eli is sure eager to communicate--he made it all the way through Lesson 1 of Rosetta Stone English (and we redid the first third of the lesson as it took awhile for him to figure out how it worked).  He also spent some time with me studying flash cards and language puzzles.  He is so eager to bond and to be an American!  Isaac was more interested in spending the morning relaxing, watching some tv, playing Angry Birds, and coming over to give me occasional hugs and show me how well he was doing on his game.

Anya came by and took us out for a few hours.  We bought tickets for Saturday's soccer (excuse me...football) game.  Sounds like it will be quite a spectacle!  We toured the iron sculpture garden (love!), and went to a cafeteria-style restaurant for the boys' fourth meal of the day.  Karol Saner's words "They will eat like you've never seen" kept running through my head.  Good heavens.  Then Anya took us to the grocery store.  Not one of the little corner markets, but a BIG, American-style grocery store.  They boys behaved so incredibly well--I was amazed.  We should be stocked for a couple of days now.

Anya is going to come back tomorrow to start English lessons for the boys.

Dinner was more of the same.  I made a huge feast, they each ate a massive plateful with great joy.  An hour later the little one came back for another sausage link.

Victor just came back.  He says we got a really good judge.  :)

I took some pics today.  I gotta be sneaky, because Little Guy always wants to commandeer my phone.