Week Two

All of you who are parents will not be surprised by this post. Darwin and I have never been parents so this is a big adjustment for us, and of course for Oleg. He has been in school for one week and has taken the bus to school three times. Oleg is not a morning person and does not like to get up. We start waking him up 30 or 40 minutes before he has to leave. The first day on the bus he forgot his phone and Darwin jogged back home and got to the bus stop with the phone, with a minute to spare. The school allows Oleg to use his phone for translation only.

Oleg has made some friends at school. We met one of them. P.J. seems to be a very good boy. He is helping Oleg get to his classes. He also put the translation app on his phone to help. Soccer started this week and we were happy to see that P.J. is on his soccer team. I never thought I would be a soccer mom!

The son of very good friends of ours, Sergey, is helping us with translation and has become a good friend to Oleg. He went with us to soccer and the coach asked him to be an assistant coach, to help with translation and coaching. Sergey has also taken Oleg to the Jr. High youth group at our church. We at hoping he will make good friends there and get well connected at church.

Darwin and I have been married for almost 10 years. We have had such a quiet, easy life. It has just been us and the dogs. We love Oleg and have no regrets about adopting him. Things are just different. :-) 

Before we adopted we took a parenting class at church. That is really helping us. We are trying to be consistent and set boundaries. Believe it or not, Oleg is testing the boundaries! Right now we have given him yard work to do and taken his laptop away for a period of time. I won't go into the reason, but it had to be done.

We are excited about what God is going to do in Oleg's life and in our lives. We know it is going to be good. We are really looking forward to Oleg learning English well. He is learning more every day. He is saying simple phrases and is understanding more of what we say to him.