Raspberries & Playing Horsie with Mama

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Another wonderful day with Andrew. This morning we were playing around with him and Andrew was up to his silly self again. Robert was trying to get Andrew to put the pegs into the peg board to see how many he could do on his own (which today in one sitting it was 5). I told Robert to make it fun and then when Andrew wanted him to play with the pegs, Andrew stick one of the pegs in Roberts mouth. Robert would hold it in his teeth to be funny and to see what Andrew would do. Andrew laughed and would take it out of his mouth and put it back into Robert’s mouth. Finally Robert stopped playing with him and closed his mouth and wouldn’t open it again until he blew a raspberry at Andrew. Andrew giggled and leaned in to kiss Robert. Robert was shocked and we both laughed at Andrew. Andrew got a kick out of us laughing at his behavior and he even gave Mama a kiss as well. So silly. I picked him up a bit later and he leaned over as I was holding him and he blew a raspberry on my arm. Too funny.We also entertained Andrew today by me playing horsie with Andrew. I got him sitting on my leg and began to play horsie. He loved it. Robert even made a video of it.



Andrew is really getting brave and wandering off away from our blanket on his own. We wait to see how far he will go without us tagging along. An Irish couple is adopting a girl in Andrew’s groupa and their blanket was a few yards away from ours. So Andrew, being the social butterfly that he is, walked over on his own to visit with them. I caught up to him and chatted with them for a while with Andrew. They are anxious to get home as well, however, they’ve been visiting with the little girl for 2 weeks and still don’t have a court date yet. Since it’s a holiday tomorrow, the judge has been off for the past 3 business days, so that is why they don’t even have a date for court yet. Please keep them in prayer for a court date this week so they can return home to take care of things back home.



Tomorrow is Independence Day here in Ukraine. It is when Ukraine officially became an independent nation from the USSR. We found out that even though many places are closed on the Holiday, that we will still be able to visit with Andrew. I will be interesting to see how they celebrate their Independence Day. Sasha, our taxi driver said that about 300 kilometers from our hotel they will be shooting off fireworks. Not sure if we’ll join in so we’ll let you know tomorrow or the next day what it was like.