Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Day 22 - Starting a Routine

Well Lisa and I have been working hard to figure out how we can work ourselves into Halina's day. I think Lisa has figured it all out. Today we put our plan into effect and it worked out beautifully. Halina is happy in the morning and miserable in the afternoon. We believe this is because of the gap in her meal times between lunch and dinner. So today we had a small treat in the morning and a big snack (a banana, kids yogurt and treat) as soon as we arived in the afternoon. She was so happy all day. We followed up our afternoon play session with chai (which all the kids drink here) and she was good to go. She was a little sad when we started to wave good-bye for the night.
We are totally hooked.
Tonight we are expecting the doctor from Kiev to arrive, so that she can do the immigration in the morning. All the things seem like they are progressing, just not as fast as we hoped.

1 comment:

Christina said...

Patience is such a virtue, hang in there and one day you will be able to look back at all this as a wonderful and amazing experience, but I know that you’re treasuring every minute of it.
It's great to hear that you started a routine and that Andrew’s Ukrainian is helping things move along! Petro and I are always checking up to see what news you have to say! Xoxoxo Christina