Funny

I think I will give V a name, Vadym is his name. Since his name is all over Facebook, he is listed by his name everywhere else.  We had Vadim with us for over 2 weeks, and we had a lot of fun with his name :) All of our kids are so use to names that starts with D :) it was a mess first few days. During this time Vadym was called,Denis, David Artem, Sasha, Vitalik, Ruvim, Nazar, and other names. I think it's really funny, we all did call him different names  for a while :) it would be so much easier if his name was Daniel :))))

we had this funny story:

we hear Danik calling Vadym : "Sasha, come over here"
my husband Sergey, gets his head in the room and saying : " Danik, he is not Sasha, his name is Vitalik!"

and we hear this strong voice...."I am Vadym"...you should of see my husbands face, and me, I was laughing ...

Week overview...

This week is very busy for all of us.

Monday, we had Danilka's appointment, and we got ok from his doctor to take him off his current medicine, we all praying that it will go well, and we would love to know that he is healed.

Tuesday, Danik and Stasik had their appointments for shots, each boy got a shot before school. Danik still having a hard time to trust doctors, but he did good, and Stasik is very brave little boy:) Proud of them both!

Wednesday, we went to LensCrafters and ordered glasses for V. We asked if we can get 2 pairs of glasses, since  V is a boy, and glasses do break, but we would have to pay for 2nd pair, and it's not cheap, we simply cannot afforded now.
It was very pleasant and nice experience we had at LensCrafters. We met this wonderful woman Connie, and she offered to help and pay for second pair of glasses for V, at JCpenny store. It is much cheaper at JCpenny, and Connie was touched with V story, what a blessing!

Thursday, today is a first day of school for our 3 oldest boys! I couldn't sleep at night, and very worry about boys, especially Stasik. This is first time for Stasik to go to school at all, and he is in second grade. I haven't get  a phone call from school, so looks like everything is ok :)
 Later we went to mall , and picked it up V's glasses. He is so handsome in his new glasses! Connie also got V a little bear for his coming Bday. This woman has a huge heart for orphans! God bless her and her little girl(she adopted her daughter from Guatemala). Many people praying for V, and for for his family, so his mommy and daddy can find him soon! We stopped at JcPenny and ordered 2nd pair for V. Connie gave us money for his glasses, and she gave more than enough. We will let V pick something from a store(maybe Disney store), to take it with him back to Ukraine.

Tomorrow we will get things ready for our trip to the ocean. We will be celebrating V birthday, and really want to go somewhere fun for kids.
Saturday, if everything goes well we will go to ocean, and Sunday we are planning to go to church.

Haircuts +park=saturday

 During month of August JC Penny salon is offering free haircuts for kids. In the morning all 6 kids got their haircuts. While we were at the mall, we also stopped at LinsCrafters and tried to make an appointment for V, so he can get new glasses before going back to Ukraine. We met very nice lady, she was very helpful, and looks like we will be able to get new glasses for V.

After mall we went home, had lunch and went to local park. Kids had fun, and V is keep asking when we will go again. Here is pictures from our day:)

 At the park

 Stasik is so funny, he asked to ride a scooter, and next thing I see, Stasik is running around, chasing other boys with his scooter in his hands. He does this almost all the time :) I think he runs faster than he can ride :)

We had a great time. I really enjoy all our kids, and V is awesome kid. He is same as our other boys, just typical kid :)

Back in January...

I promised to post a picture of our kids from our first trip to Ukraine, back in January. 

This is one of the first pictures of our kids. This is back in their orphanage, in living room. Kids were watching cartoons. 

 We brought them little toys. Trying to figure out something.

 Sergey is exercising :) one leg for Denny and one for Stasik :)

 Snack time, chocolates, cookies, and oranges.

Another day

Thank you so much for nice comments, but really it's all God. We are very blessed that we have this chance to have V with us. This little boy was scared to death, and didnt' do well in his previous family. There is a reason why V is staying with us, and we were able to communicate with we, because we do speak Ukrainian. 

We were blessed by one of Sergey's co-worker with this "walkers", I have no idea what to call them :) Boys enjoying a lot and learning to walk like this. So far Danik is the best, and the fastest walker , but Danilka is stubborn too, so we will see:) I told them that once they will learn how to walk they will play soccer on this "walkers" :)

 V and Danik on the swing.

 V is trying to walk, so cute:) He is not good at it yet, and Danik from behind trying to hold him for a picture :)

 Playing wii

Sergey were able to sign up boys for school today Danik 4th grade and Stasik 2nd. In less than a week school will start for my boys. They are not too excited!!

Meet V

I do have a permission to share this information on my blog. Thank you for everyone who is praying and prayed for our family.
Our family is happy to help and welcome little boy V into our home for next 3 weeks. V was hosted and spend first two weeks with one family, but unfortunately things didn't work out for a family and V, now V is staying with us and we are happy to have him :)

He is handsome little boy, and we are blessed to have him in our home for this little while.

Yesterday we had to make this  decision, and I did asked you to pray for us. We heard that V was not doing well in his first family. Also he needs some time to warm up, and get use to people. Sergey and I were very scared to bring V into our family, but we heard God's calling, and moved forward with faith.

God was working with our hearts for few days before we found out about V. We had few conversations about orphans, and how our life changed when we welcomed our 3 boys in our family. We did talk about making little gifts and try to send to Ukraine and we talked about other things...

 Tuesday morning I woke up and told Sergey" I have a feeling that God is not done with us, I am not sure if we will adopt, but we  will help orphans!", and later that day we heard about V's situation, and decided to take him into our family. Wednesday morning V was in our house, and is doing great now.

I know it is not going to be easy,  having 6 kids in the house , 5 of them are boys, and they are 10,9,8,7,4 years of age. :)

From our point of view it was not best time to bring one more child in our family for many reasons.
We just brought home Danik and Stasik, and we still bonding.
 School will start in next week for our 3 boys.
I have to make decision for Denny, do I want him to go to preschool now, or later.
Have to find our more info, and find a speech therapist for Denny.
 All 3 oldest boys have appointments in next two weeks.
We still didn't' sign up Danik and Stasik for school(hopefully tomorrow will do).

And there is many little reasons we have going on in our life but now looking back, and going trough my thoughts that I had 2 days ago, when making decision to have V in our house, I know we did a correct decision. I will share more about V and how all kids are doing in my next post.

Please keep us in your prayers for next 3 weeks :)

Please pray

We need your prayers as we go through some temporary changes in our family. It has nothing to do with our recent adoption.  Please pray for us, and especially for more wisdom for me and Sergey to handle everything.

Thank you

God Bless you