Home Sweet Home

We have been back now for 5 days and it feels great! Everyone seems to be settling in fine and we have just been resting, unpacking, doing some grocery shopping, etc. Today I took Marina to the doctor because I only have enough meds for the next 5 days for her and they did some blood work and tomorrow we will know more about her health. They will be sending us to a specialist at Children's Hospital soon and so we will begin that journey within the next week I think. That will be good, so we have a clearer idea of what her health status really is.

We are still feeling jet lagged and like we are in a fog most of the time, but it is getting better. The kids seem happy and are having a great time playing together and Hannah has said repeatedly that she is so happy we adopted Marina! Someone new to play with :)

The other day we went to eat out Mexican food and Marina went to dip a chip in the salsa and then exclaimed "hot ketchup, hot ketchup!", which we thought was funny. She liked it though and continued to eat it and eventually stuck her drinking straw in it and was trying to drink it. I guess she REALLY liked it! When we left there, everyone had their seat belts on except Marina and we told her to put it on. She then told us in Ukraine, no one wears seat belts and we told her that here it's the law. Then James told her she could go to jail if she doesn't wear it and Hannah corrected him by saying, "actually Dad, YOU would go to jail, not Marina" . . . brat! Then we were talking about the colors of the different holidays, like orange and black for Halloween, red/green for Christmas, etc. and then Hannah wanted to know what holiday was represented by "heliotrope". Heliotrope, we said?! We told her we'd have to look that up and find out :) So, for those of you wondering . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(color)