Okay, this post will be very brief, but hopefully you'll get a quick glimpse. Hopefully we'll be able to put something with more detail soon. For now, a brief summary since Saturday, a few pictures, and a video will have to do.
On Sunday afternoon, we spent a little time with Aija (pronounced, I-ya) one of the chaperones from Latvia. Dmitrijs was able to speak some Russian and Aija ensured that she had everything that he needed. After we dropped Aija off at her host family's house, we braved the grocery store and were able to learn some of his favorite foods (peppers are a BIG fav!). For the 4th of July, we went to a different YMCA that has a waterpark. Needless to say, he had a BLAST there, especially when King was able to teach him how to go down the waterslide faster by laying on his back. For fireworks, we let him choose between the National Whitewater Center which had live music before the fireworks or Charlotte Motor Speedway for one of their Summer Shootout Series races. He chose the Speedway and had a great time!
He went to the dentist today and did great! They did find 2 cavities and a baby tooth that needs to be pulled, but he does not seem frightened about the process (though he certainly isn't excited about it).
Last night we started reading Bible stories with him. Since we could not find Latvian materials earlier, Casey picked up some children's Bible story books, and we used Google Translate to get the stories in Latvian. As we were getting started, Casey challenged him to read the first English paragraph out loud (which he did rather well!), and then said she would read the second English paragraph. However, she got a bit more than she bargained for. After she read the second paragraph and we moved to the Latvian paragraph, Dmitrijs pointed to the paragraph, then Casey and said, "You read." This has produced many, MANY laughs (see the video below)!
Okay, so that was longer than what we originally intended it to be, but here are the pictures and video!
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| Dmitrijs playing with Merlin on his first day. |
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| Jumping into the pool (also on the first day) |
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| Fireworks from the Speedway on the 4th |
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| We told you we've seen his grin big smile since he's been here! |
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| King and Dmitrijs at the Speedway |
Those giggles are priceless! It looks like he is having a good time.
ReplyDeleteI love these updates! Dmitrijs seems like an amazing kid, I'm so glad you're showing him such a great time, the smile on his face is priceless!
ReplyDeleteHe is PRECIOUS and absolutely has one of the sweet smiles in the WORLD. Thank you so much for the updates - you guys are doing an amazing job and are in our prayers every day!!!
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