Month four funnies

We have been home with the girls for almost four months now. We are amazed at how many things they have learned and by how many things they still need to learn. Grasping things that are abstract is very difficult for them. For example, phrases we use flippantly like "it's pouring cats and dogs" really throw them for a loop. Animation is another thing that they just can't seem to grasp. We have spent countless hours talking about whether a character in a movie is real, animated or digitally enhanced. We have shown them video clips on how animated movies are made but they still can't comprehend it, it's just too abstract. When we first came home, we tried to introduce them to movies gently, we showed them movies like babe and homeward bound. Looking back on this, we probably terrified the poor children!

Speaking of being terrified, the other night A (10) walked into the bathroom just in time to witness Se taking out her contacts. The poor child ran out into the loft and fell to the floor screaming. It took a good 20 minutes to assure her that Se wasn't actually ripping part of her eye out. We run into things like this almost daily. Explaining things like water having depths over their heads and the breadth and depth of the ocean is almost more than they can comprehend. We can't wait to take them to the ocean someday!
Sometimes I get sad when I think of all the things we have missed with them but then I am reminded of all the "firsts" we have experienced in the last four months. The girls are amazingly resilient. They have come half way across the world to live in a strange land with STRANGE people and they have done it with out question or fear. They are three of the bravest people we know!

I have tried very hard while writing this blog not to embarrass the girls in any way because someday they might want to read this but this was just too funny!
M 13 is so incredibly innocent for a child her age. We have had to have a couple of talks about where babies come from and things of that nature... Well the other night she asked if boy and girl animals got together the same way people do to make a baby and when we explained to her that they did, she literally fell on the floor laughing. How refreshing innocence is in this day and age!

The girls language acquisition has come along tremendously but now we hear our homemade 4 year old saying things like "me want more- this one" and "watzzzz diz?" Tonight at the dinner table A (10) was entertaining us, as usual and she was trying to see if M(3) could remember walitania, the language that was spoken at the orphanage. After a few minutes of speaking it and watching M's blank stare she blurts out " oh no, I think we've lost her!" We all died laughing!
(opps, "died laughing" is another one of those phrases we can't say!)

The farm animals continue to be another source of entertainment, we now have chickens named Wafflie, Pancake and Syrup, and pigs named Pistachio and Captain Jack Sparrow (no, we did not let them watch pirates of the Caribbean!). Oh, and I can't forget Wesley and Buttercup the sheep.

Life is never boring!