Karissa's hair for the wedding
She is just beautiful!!!!!!
Christian and Katie Aunna dancing;-)Well, Saturday night we had been home for exactly 7 days!!! It was quite a night of celebration for our family as my sister only has TWO children. I can not imagine why...ha ha. Any way her oldest son had a beautiful wedding. Karissa was the flower girl and she was just lovely and completed her flower girl task perfectly. She went to the beauty shop and had her hair fixed for the part.
Katie Aunna had a blast. She was horribly shy at first with many guests and about 100 family members present who all wanted to talk (English naturally) to her. But, Katie Aunna really took to her Uncle Mark (my sister's husband) and I can't say I blame her. He is quite a happy and gentle fellow!!! She danced with him and then Christian asked Katie to dance. Once that started to happen then DeeDee wanted a dance with her too.
It was so funny.....when we passed by the cake table...Katie Aunna sniffed the air and said "YUMMY"!!!! She has such a huge sweet tooth and sugar is something we usually do not have in our house. But, she is adjusting well and our transition to English is awesome. She is getting new words every day!!!
I have to say that John-John is the one who seems the most traumatized. Although he is the baby of the family, all the attention focused on Katie Aunna, has been difficult for my precious little Serbian baby. Saturday night he sat the whole evening in Duane's lap and did not budge once to run around. Although, Kisty tried to reduce his trauma by bringing all the children to meet us at the airport late last week when we got home, John was rather shocked to see us and Katie Aunna. It also shocked Katie Aunna too when she saw all the pictures of the kids in her mind come to real life.
John-John is eating and sleeping normally, but, he seems to be in a state of shock. I think he had begun to believe that his Mommy and Daddy were never going to return home after a month in Russia. Then suddenly we come home and a new child was with us whom he had only seen in pictures...come to life. I told him often about Katie Aunna before we went to Russia and showed him her picture. He would say "Ka-tie" and point to her picture. I just think the real life person was a shock to him. He seems to be doing much better today than he has since we came home.
Casey, Christian, Karissa, and Annie have not missed a beat in the adjustment process. They have all progressed well. Little Mary (Liquid Nitro) has been quite surprised that Katie Aunna refuses to bend to "Mary's" will. In fact, if Mary pee-pees her pull-up, Katie Aunna gets furious and puts Mary on the pot with a swat or two to the bottom. Then she scolds Mary in Russian. I think the early potty training mentality of the Russian orphanages came out in Katie.
Mary understands exactly the problem and seems quite willing to stop wetting her pants. So, I must say that Mary has done great on potty training since Katie came home and cracked down on her. What a hoot. I will try to catch the process of scolding on camera for you...that is...if Mary dares to screw up tomorrow...ha ha. It is sort of a potty training break for me with Mary.
I am getting more excited for Wednesday to come as Katie Aunna has an appointment with our local opthamologist for her new glasses and Thursday she will see a specialist in pediatrics at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center (thanks to Patrick Conner). Also, home school is going great with her. She remains the ideal student and our classroom has calmed down tremendously since Katie Aunna came home and the stress of waiting for her has ended. I have made two posts today...this one and two with just pictures in it. Hope you enjoy them!!!
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