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After watching Viktoija consume a HUGE breakfast, we mozied back to our room to start on school work. Seriously, pound for pound, Viktorija can put away the food:-) Even Mike had a stomach ache watching her! She ate a plate of vegetables (she loves those), bacon, fruit (banana, 3 kiwi), cereal, juice, and a small danish!! You wouldn't think she'D be hungry for lunch, but, yep, she ate spaghetti for lunch too.



She was pretty proud of the fact that she got a 100% on all her Math homework today! English is improving. But, working on proper sentences is a bit slower...that's due to the language barrier, of course. She has not once complained that we haven't taken a break from school work since we're been with her.



We chose to watch "The Nativity Story" DVD today. This is a movie about the birth of Jesus. We always talk about what we watch, or read, together in order to make sure she has a good understanding of what the subject matter is. She does pretty well comprehending, considering that laguage differences. Great movie for anyone interested.


We are scraping the bottom of the barrell for entertainment these days. So, we played several rounds of charades. This is a game Viktorija had never played before. Initially she was shy about acting out her word. But, after a couple turns, she started to come out of her shell. Quite animated, actually:-)

I'm currently listening to her read to Mike from her children's Bible. She doing a fantastic job! And, the fact that she is actually comprehending the information is even better:-)

We enjoyed our skype conversations with our friends, Tim and Carla Carroll, and Kirk and Beth Bleavins. The weather sounds amazing at home! In the 70's?!?! WOW!! We broke 25 degrees today;-) Hope some of that sunshine hangs around for us.

Tomorrow we will take Viktorija to the US embassy for her VISA interview, and physical. This is the last hurdle we've been waiting for. We will then pick up her VISA from the embassy on Tues! Please pray for a smooth and seemless flight home on Wednesday. I'll bet I've heard Viktorija say it about a dozen times today how excited she is to get home and see Cosmo and Rosie (our pups)! Secretly I hope that our pups don't give us the attitude after leaving them for 2-1/2 weeks:-) They've been under the magnificent care of my mom. Also, our neighbors, John and Betsy, have helped by taking the pups out when my mom's been at work. This was extremely important to us to know that our "babies" would be well taken care of while we were out of the country. We are so thankful!!!!

Until tomorrow..... Love to all