Day 20 - "Little Miss Cranky Pants"

This weekend was absolutley beautiful. We have been in T-shirts and eating outside. We tried to create a new post yesterday from our hotel room. Unfortunately we had a couple of bad settings in our cell phone and as a result our prepaid card was sucked dry within 5 minutes. Oh well, we went to see the guy who helped set it all up and another 25 Gryvnas later, we found the problem. We will try it out again tonight.

Halina, which is now how we call her (coincidentally Andrew's mother's name). It took a while to figure out that Ukrainians do not have a G in their alphabet (actually they do, but it a long story). They say the cerillic "G" as an "H", thus Galina to the Russians is really Halina to all her Ukrainian caregivers and little friends at the orphanage.

Yesterday, we think Halina was cutting in teeth and she was a "liitle miss cranky pants" for both of our visits. Not much we could but listen to her tantrums.

Today is her 19 month birthday and it was a great day. We spent over 4 hours with her and she was in such a great mood. She gets very excited when she sees us and did not want us to leave (until some food was placed in front of her that is). We are working on geting her to stand on her own and take her first steps. We think this will happen before we leave Ukraine.