Halloween 2012

We didn't do much for Halloween this year.  As we had already had a carving pumpkins party a few days before and a get together with family, we decided to just trick-or-treat at grandma and grandpa's house.  The kids were excited to put on their costumes and of course grandma always spoils them.  Here is a picture before we left, Carson is Batman, Caleb is Bozo the Clown, Cash is Spiderman and Peyton is a princess.  They are so funny and fun.

 

 

As I was leaving work last night I decided to stop and get pizza so we could eat quickly and get to Grandma's house.  My two American kids always like to ask Peyton what the Ukrainian word is for this or that.  So as we were eating pizza Cash asked her what the Ukrainian word was for pizza.  Peyton replied, Ukrainian pizza is English pizza in her beautiful Ukrainian voice.  We were amazed because this was her first sentence in English that she actually said without any prompting.  Normally she just says da or nyet or shakes her head for anything I ask and has not tried to talk in English unless I tell her what something is and have her repeat it. 

 

Peyton started school on Monday of this week and we are hoping to get together soon with the team that will decide what direction we need to go with her.  She is supposed to be tested some time to see where she is at in Math.  Right now she is just getting aquainted with school, her teacher and her classmates.  I can not begin to imagine how hard it is to sit in class and only know bits and pieces of what the teacher is saying.  She always has a smile on her face when we pick her up from school and when I ask her if she likes school she shakes her head no. 

 

Caleb is adjusting to daycare.  After the first couple of days he figured out where we were going and now he starts to cry when I leave him.  He is fine though  once I leave and seems to have a good time. Today he road on the merry-go-round at daycare and he got off and threw-up.  But that didn't deter him from getting on it again later in the day and same thing happening.  Funny boy!

 

Overall everything is going better than we could have expected and all the kids are getting along fairly well.  Peyton will actually go outside now and play soccer or football or swing with the boys.  It would be nice though if she had a sister to do girly things with.  Just sayin.

 

~Tina