Passport!!

Sorry for the lack of updates the past few days. Cavin has not been feeling well and has been demanding more of our time with keeping his nose clean and some fussiness here and there.

On Thursday evening we had a doctor come to the apartment to check on Cavin. He had been fighting a cold for over a week and I felt like it was getting worse, especially his cough. I also wanted to make sure he didn't have an ear infection before flying. The doctor was really nice, and did great with Cavin. He said Cavin had a viral respiratory infection and walked with Matt down the street to the drugstore to buy medicine. Then he walked back with Matt so we could write down the directions for the 6, almost all of them were all natural, medicines. Love that he was able to come the night we called, was so nice and thorough and helpful, and it only cost us $40. 

We have been enjoying our time together as a family at "our" apartment here in Kiev.The boys have really started to bond and playing with each other, which melts my heart! Of course they are still learning to share with each other, and that's not always easy.

Rance has been doing really well for the most part. We have had a few tears, but only one time were they unrelated to getting in trouble. =) We continue to try and teach Rance English.We think he is beginning to understand a lot of what we say and he is learning new words everyday.

Yesterday we were walking and he was skipping so I began singing "Skip, skip, skip to my lou....skip to my lou my darling" and Rance caught on rather quick. He sings it "Skip, skip, skippy my lou, skip, skip, skippy my lou, skip, skip, skippy my lou skippy my lou my darling.." Its too cute!! Its nice for us to have a break from the alphabet song too!

Yesterday afternoon we found out that Rance's Ukrainian passport was finished! An answer to prayer that it was finished sooner than we had planned! We got a call late last night letting us know that it had arrived in Kiev. We are now completely done with everything in Ukraine, just need to get his U.S. visa and we're good to go! We have already been pre-approved for a visa for Rance, but we still have to fill out a lot of paperwork this weekend. Then Monday we will take Rance to the Embassy doctor to be checked out, then to our first appointment at the Embassy to turn in our paperwork. Tuesday we will have our interview and then we are praying we can get his visa picked up Tuesday night...normally this is the case....but due to our experience here we are a little nervous about this!

Today we walked just across the street to a pizza place. Before we left we asked Rance if he wanted to eat pizza and he got a big smile on his face and shook his head yes. However, he didn't seem to like it all that much and needed some prodding to finish his one piece. Hopefully he grows to love pizza as much as his daddy does, because we eat it a lot!

**Firsts for Rance
-Eating Pizza!
-Riding in an Elevator (Our apartment is on the third floor)
-Riding on an Escalator (Nervous to get on and off the first time, but thought it was pretty fun after that!)
-Ice (Both Cavin and Rance tried ice for the first time on Friday! They both loved it!)
-Cold Cereal (This morning instead of hot oatmeal we let the boys eat cold cereal, Matt wasn't sure if he would like it because it was cold, but I was like, of course he'll like it, its sugar coated! I was right, he loved it!)

Tonight we will begin finishing up laundry that we need to get done and beginning to reorganize and repack our suitcases. We are hoping to have pretty much everything done by Sunday night as we know Monday and Tuesday will be busy with getting Rance's visa.

Its hard to believe we will be leaving on Wednesday. We are so ready and excited to be back home, but after being here for over 2 months it seems unreal!