Its Always Sunny in Kramatorshk...?

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
--James 1:27

Day 16 -This is a verse that we came across several times while considering/planning to adopt. Its always good to see it.
The title today kinda has a double meaning that some of you may get but, I thought about Chris(Unc) when I wrote it. This ones for you Unc. Hope you left Charlotte in good form. Keep getting your updates here...I've got a special video idea in store for you. Ha.
Today is our first full day at Alex and Olga's apartment and "we" are all very comfortable. As Karen said I was happy to be able to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Scrambled eggs is next on the list I think! Right now we are doing some laudry...and we aren't even using the sink!! That's right boyeeh!





Thanks so much once again for the comments. It is good to know the haps on other family events. Makes me think we should have already had some kind of neutral site where we can post text,pics, and videos all the time. Maybe an idea for the future?
Well Lance had a good day yesterday. We went outside for a stroll and a quick run to a store very close to the orphanage. We picked up some baby cereal so we could feed him a warm dish. Today we presented this warm dish along with a cold dish option(which previously was received very well) and "warm" dish moved very quickly past the cold foods on the "I like'em" list. We knew that these Antoshka kids would have food issues and we were proven correctly today. He would cry and throw a semi-fit when he was offered the cold food. We fought a little battle with this today. We tried to make strides in calming him down before we continued to feed him. Patience wore a little thin but, I think it was well worth it. Luckily he has a short memory and didn't cry for long after we stopped eating. Again, another learned characteristic of environment I believe.
We also tried for over an hour to get him to fall asleep yesterday. He fought it for awhile, too. Its too convienent right now to have the time to deal with this. We won't always have so much time to be flexible with his behavior. Guess this is parenting....and I know it will work out fine.
Overall, we are still very happy and enjoying all of our time with Lance. We know the good and bad come together and that the little rough times will always be out weighed by the great blessing this is to us. It always helps to have your support though. Hope you enjoy the pics and we'll try to get another video up sometime...maybe even right side up!!

JM and Karen

Sorry but these pics are out of order and there are complications in me posting them as smoothly as I have in the past. Gotta love not being able to read the page you're posting on!!