Sunday, February 26, 2012

Jell-O and Play Dough time!

 Kebek was home sick while Zeki was at school so we enjoyed Jello time
 Everything goes in Kebes mouth


 Z doing his home school work

 Play dough time

 eating with his "spoon"
 Just eating play dough

 making snowmen

Friday, February 17, 2012

Update

It has gotten pretty cold here in Ukraine. The boys are really enjoying the snow. Our pipes are still frozen with no thawing in sight =-(. But we are so blessed to have a neighbor that hooks up a hose for us from their house. Our other neighbors without water (the pipes are frozen in the ground from the main pipe lines) carry buckets daily to have water. The boys continue to enjoy their russian school. There are only girls in their class, so what is not to love! They pick up a few words each class. (they go 2 times a week for 1 hour) They are very cute to speak to each other using russian words, and using them in a correct phrase in place of an english word.
Kebek is getting over his ketchup phase, where every bite had to have ketchup. However each meal, Kebes eats like he is on a episode of fear factor. He chews, and chews, and swallows till there is nothing left in his mouth before he takes another bite. If you try to get him to eat another bite he will tell you he has food in his mouth. Kebek will also think up any way not to eat, "mouth hurt" is his favorite one.
Kebek loves to sleep! He prefers to go sleeping than to do much of anything he doesnt want to do. We hope its a phase and that something underlying is not going on. But for now he expresses he wants to sleep when he is bored, he has to pick up his toys, sit on the potty, change his diaper, eat, etc. He gets his blanket, Pooh, and pillow and lays down =-). 
The boys are really into Thomas the train and Legos right now. In school they learned about a "dome". House in english, so they are crazy about building domes. Thomas seems to be the one toy they have yet to get tired of.
The boys continue to learn a tiny bit of spanish and sign language. They both are doing well with they numbers and letters. We are currently working on lowercase right now. Kebek has to be tricked into learning, as Zeki loves to sit and learn.


The boys are beginning to self play really well. Its cute to see their imaginations come out in the way they play.