Playing Inside with Andrew

Today when we pick Andrew up from his groupa to play with him inside the orphanage since it was a windy morning and since he is getting over a cold. Andrew seemed fine today, however, we kept him inside and played with him in one of the play rooms. It wasn’t as fun as we normally have playing outside, since Andrew was too busy exploring the room and trying to find new avenues to explore and play. The room itself only had a entertainment cabinet with toys and plants on top and a couple of closed (not locked) doors on them. Of course Andrew wanted to open all the cabinet doors and crawl behind things and keep walking out of the room instead of staying there and playing on the carpet. Most of the time we were running after him to keep him in the room instead of playing with him.



This afternoon’s visit Andrew was still very active, yet he knew not to even try to get into the cabinets and he didn’t try to run out of the room as much. I guess after me running after him every time he took off for the door and picked him up to bring him back into the room he finally realized that why waste the energy. Wore me out though.



Andrew finally played on the floor with his toys for a while this afternoon. When he was at a child size table and chairs he was imitating his caregiver when he took his hand to swat a fly on the table. He saw my reaction to him missing the fly and started giggling loudly. Of course he continued doing it to continue getting a reaction out of me, but the funny thing was his reaction and laughing continually out loud.



Well, we set a date to come home. Our original flight to come home was yesterday. Ohh how we wish we were in our own bed. Oh well, what’s another few days or so here in Ukraine. Since we were originally set to come home on August 24th we had to change the airline tickets before yesterday. We are set to come home on September 21st. YIPPIE!! What a happy day that will be. We are so looking forward to coming home and being a real family. It just doesn’t seem real going to the orphanage everyday to visit Andrew instead of him being home with us. Soon….real soon we’ll look back on this day and THANK GOD he pulled us through it all safely and soundly. We already thank God for everything He has done already and is continuing to do in our lives and in our families. Anyway…just a few more days in Ukraine and we’ll be home.