Dan and the kids were driving home from Inga's soccer practice when Dan looked in the rearview mirror and saw a beautiful sunset in progress. "Look, kids," he said, "the sun is setting!" Elena had not heard him, but looked dutifully behind her along with the others. She turned back excitedly. "Look, Dad," she exclaimed, "a pink moon!""I...I...I Fuppaman!" --Sam, saying 'I'm Superman' (it sounds much cuter when you can actually hear it)
"Go tell Daddy he has good taste," said I.
--"But Daddy is not a hungry person," said Elena worriedly, "and we don't eat him!"
Elena is working on the alphabet. Because she is still transitioning to English (she was adopted shortly before she turned 4, so she is still working on it), she does not always hold onto concepts based in language very well. This means that anything to do with reading takes a little extra work. So we are starting with the names of the letters of the alphabet, and we are working on A and B. For some reason she cannot remember the name of the letter A, no matter what we do. After working on it for a few minutes today she looked up at me in exasperation and said, "Wow, Mommy, these are the hard letters!"
The fan in our bathroom stopped working today. Elena and Andrei were the ones to discover this, and they were very concerned about it. "Mom, the air in the bathroom is broken," Elena came running to tell me, "so we need to buy a new house!"
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