Nataliya, my precious little "Peanut" as she is affectionately known at home!!
We have been BLESSED to have Sissy Kaysha with us for two months. It has been absolutely wonderful. She leaves next week for her new job (read great career opportunity) in Los Angeles. We will all miss her more than I can put into words.
This first picture shows Nataliya snuggling Kaysha while watching "Letter Factory" ... one of her favorite DVDs (Nataliya's favorite ... not Kaysha's ... although Kaysha is getting familiar with all of her letter sounds again!).





Nataliya also got to help me babysit my friend's little girl Claire. She was quite proud of herself that Claire went to sleep in her arms!!

Juliya loves tomatoes! So, Grampy helped her plant a tomato plant this year. It finally has one red tomato on it (it is October!!) ... but here she is watering the plant with her spray bottle-mister that Auntie Icki brought her from Florida.

Before school started each of the girls were surprised with a new backpack, lunch box and matching thermos ... Juliya wasn't excited at all. :o)

Finally they got to fill up their backpacks and head for school. While the girls loved their backpacks, lunch boxes and thermoses ... the school was not a good fit for them. So after MUCH searching ... we have made a change to a new school that is much more suited to our unique needs (ie: speech therapy, smaller student/teacher ratio, etc.). We just started there this week and so far the girls (and Mommy) love it!

I found this verse the other day while reading through Psalms ... it expresses my heart well:
You thrill me, Lord, with all You have done for me! I sing for joy because of what You have done. Psalm 92:4

Fix your eyes on Him ...