Chickens and what not

Well, we don't really have any news for the moment. Our days seem to be spent at the orphanage, traveling around getting some document or another signed and delivered, or at the Supermarket. There isn't much else to do... We spend a lot of time sitting in the room. Every morning we eat our breakfast and have a little quiet time. AS is getting better about asking us for things he wants. He has asked for bananas and yogurt. And of course, chocolate. He asks Dave "Papa can I play computer?", which means he wants to play on the tablet. He also asks for chocolate by saying "choco-lot". We're trying to teach him certain words in English, but the more we work on the more I realize he needs to learn. Addie told me yesterday "he needs to learn all the words mom. They're important". So, we will work on what we can when we can. Sometimes he seems to understand some of what we say despite the fact that he doesn't know much English. We've also spent some time with a man named Vincenzo from Italy who is there adopting an 11 year old boy. He speaks to him in Italian, and he seems to understand most of what he says. Of course Vincenzo has been here for 3 months. It's funny though, we can understand a lot of what each other is saying even though he speaks Italian, and we speak English. So between us, our tri-lingual interpreter (she speaks Russian, English, and Spanish), we can carry on a conversation. It's kind of funny... We can't understand very much of the Russian, but it seems we can understand a lot of the Italian because it's close to languages we hear more often.

Yesterday we went out for a walk and happened upon a yard which housed several chickens and some grape vines. It made me think of our friend Brian Berryhill who told us he wanted to have chickens in his backyard. Like a pet. That you can eat. Which I thought was funny.