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Very quick short update:

Angelina and Anthony and Dennis arrived home on Friday night..........Nicholas and I met them at the airport.............everyone was pretty much a mess coming off of that long, long plane ride. 

Dennis said he would never do that again & WOW this is great, great news since we don't plan on doing this again!!

Anyway they did survive all the worse for wear but they are home................

We anticipated the challenges of adopting two children who don't understand us and that we don't understand them but we can & will admit it is TOUGH!!!!!  Tough for all of us.....................the kids talk to each other a lot and I can only imagine what they are saying to one another? 

Dennis arrived home not feeling well and was pretty much shot on Saturday, a bit better on Sunday but today needed to go to the doctor.  Hopefully it is only a sinus infection and he will recover soon!!!  Love him and all and want him to feel better but this is really no time for doing the whole single parent gig with three kids (LOL!!)

Anyway we are getting by..........Angelina is a very picky eater and I'm not having much luck with her and eating...................Anthony is very determined and cannot be left unattended for ONE single second........our only savior is I happened to buy booster seats with straps and man on man what a Godsend.  I mean it - I don't think I could do this without them - if only to keep them with me while I attempt to prepare food or give them baths and such.  The kids have no interest in TV which is GREAT and I'm a big believer in not putting kids in front of the TV HOWEVER it would help if we could keep them still for even just a few minutes and not only that but it will help with them learning the language!!

They desperately need haircuts and on Thursday they have their first doctors appointments.  Now my plan was for them to see our International Adoption doctor however when I went to schedule the appointment about a month ago to see the Russian speaking doctor in the practice I couldn't get an appointment until mid October - way too long to wait and although I could bring them to Nick's pediatrician I really felt it might be important to have them see a doctor, intitallly anyway, that speaks Russian and I was successful in finding one very close to us and think that it might be comforting to the children to be seen by someone who can speak with them.  I was and I am concerned about making sure we get all areas covered in respect to all the  shots and blood work, parasites, etc and will tell them what I think is needed if they are not sure.  I also will need to bring them to all the pediatric specialists, heart, neurologist, opthomologist, etc.  I guess the second time around is easier since I have been down this road before!!!!

Nicholas is doing great.....................adjusting to the new dynamics and I think having the twins take some of the heat off up so he is happy!  The twins look up to him and if we (Dennis or I ) take them for a walk with Nicholas they flat out refuse to hold our hands and will only hold Nicholas - pretty cute!  He is a trooper even when he doesn't want to be - like tonight he told Dennis he was moving out only because they want to follow him and kiss him and be around him and he is five and isn't so much into two little ones who don't understand him !!!!

That is all for now - wow longer then I thought!

No pictures yet as they are not downloaded (GET BETTER DENNIS)!!!

Thank you all for you love and concern..............

Love to all,
DND