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Talking, Talking, Talking

It is hard to believe that during this past month in Georgia he has learned an enormous amount of words. Please, Thank you (in French, English and Russian), Sorry, Careful, Airplane, Train…pretty much anything you ask him to repeat he will learn. The ability of a child to learn languages is amazing! He has also hit his independent streak so he completely refuses help to eat, until he gets to the very end and then he says ‘help…please!’ This means a great big mess every meal, but it is all a part of growing up! Sometimes he poops at night so he wakes up saying ‘Daddy, Mommy, Poop…Yucky…Stinky….Poop!’ Until we come and get him out of his bed. Ben and I had the great idea to cut Jay’s hair ourselves, we should have learned from Cassie that this is definitely not a talent we have (as you can see from this photo!)

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All by myself

Of course kids grow up. We know that.
Today Ben wanted to help Cassie do up her snowpants (there isn’t any snow here yet, but she is so excited for it that she wears them around the house), but of course ‘It’s okay Daddy, I can do it.’ Other feats this past month included getting herself up on the toilet (now she doesn’t need us for that at all), climbing UP a slide, jumping off the last few steps (of course with mom’s reminder, ‘careful!’) and getting very far in her reading skills! Pretending to play Doctor and Hide and Seek are her favorite games right now. She is also getting better at colouring and focusing on one game for a longer period of time. What a big girl she is getting to be!

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Christmas Wish List

Christmas is coming and Grandparents are wondering!

Jay-

Toys:Anything that lights up or makes sounds. Airplanes and trains are among his favorites!ย Videos:ย Bob the builder or any other cartoons that have to do with machines are good!ย Clothesย He is in size 2T – Pyjamas with long sleeves, sweaters, bibs

Cassie-

Toys:ย She loves the Disney Princesses (especially Belle, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella) so anything with their pictures on it, or dolls, will be loved. Barbies, little houses with furniture. She is a little girl with lots of imagination. She also loves stickers, colouring books, and crafts.ย Videos:ย Angelina Ballerina, Caillou (in French), Wonderpets.ย Books:ย Phoebe Gillman books (but we have ย‘The wonderful world of Jillian Jiggsย’ and ย‘The wonderful pigs of Jillian Jiggsย’), any French Caillou books.Clothes:ย She is in size 4T – Pyjamas with long sleeves, Pants, Dresses (warm for winter) Tights, Dress boots with little high heels- she is in size 8.

Ben and Ang-

Food:ย Ranch dressing mix, brown sugar, peanut butter, reeses peanut butter cups, coffee crisp, ketchup chips, Starbucks coffee, any mexican seasoning packages (Tacos, Fajitas, Guacamole, etc.) Apple Cider Packages, Christmas teasย Clothes for Angela:ย Pyjamas (with a stretchy waist band), Prego clothes (size medium), warm sweaters.ย Clothes for Ben:ย He is size Medium. Long sleeve shirts, new t-shirts, new hoodie. Nice pen set for Angela (good quality coloured pens), Nice make-up, lotions, lipsticks, nail polish for Angela. Adobe Video Premiere Elements and Photoshop Elements for Mac for both of us. Books on Photography for Ben.

Hope that helps you Grandparents in your shopping.ย We tried to give lots of options, but please remember that shipping costs are ridiculous so just a little gift for the kids is great! Light and Small are the key words! A great shipping company is Meest 1-800-361-7345 which specializes in delivery to Ukraine and is much cheaper than Canada Post.

Address for packages:ย 

Ben and Angela Doerksen,ย Sosuri Volodimira Street, Building 4, Apartment 29.ย Kiev,ย 02090ย Ukraine

Phone Number : Cell: 093 230 3284, Home: 011 380 44 559 4500

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Reading

We’ve been working through a textbook – how to read in 100 lessons. Of course, making it through a whole lesson doesn’t always work, and sometimes Cas doesn’t totally ‘get it’, but it’s coming along and she can read some small words like cat, rat, and rug. It will be great when she can read to Jay, and to our new baby that comes along this May!!

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Talking

We wake up every morning to the screaming words, “Momma, Momma” coming from Jay’s playpen. If it takes us too long to get there, he moves on to “Dadda, Dadda”. And from there straight to freaking out – so we try to make it there before that happens…

After picking him up, he immediately begins asking for “bankie, bankie” and as we walk to the kitchen he tells us that he is “hungie, hungie”. He has just started eating his own breakfast, either oatmeal, muesli or cereal – but his favourite is definitely yogurt. He usually finishes breakfast with some “wata, wata” or “leau, leau”. Of course, if he threw some food on the floor, he might tell us what happened, “drop, drop”. It’s all pretty comical … except that its extremely tiring!

He’s not allowed, but he continually asks for “makas, makas” (markers) during the day. And if he sees someone on the computer, then he immediately calls out for “gampa, gampa”. He sure is growing up!