Anastasia - Age 7
Anastasia was born on March 24, 1999. She is a very playful girl and played so hard with the boys that they were all sweaty by the time we took the picture. As you can see she has beautiful thick dark wavy hair and blue crystal eyes. It was hard to get her to sit down and talk because she was so excited to play. She would only sit for about 30 seconds at a time! But her favorite color is yellow and her favorite thing to do is DRAW!!
She will be in the 1st grade when we get to America but will need some catching up to do. She wasn't enrolled in school before entering the orphanage so she has just barely learned the alphabet. She did it for us and was very proud of herself.
We will keep her name and add a middle name from our family. They pronouce it differently here is Kazakhstan than we do in America but I am sure she will get use to it!!!
Maria - Age 9
Maria was born on September 16, 1996. She has been in the orphanage since January and says she can't remember anything about her life before but she did say she got her freckles from her dad and her red hair from her uncle. She has thick wavy red hair and blue eyes. Her favorite color is yellow, her favorite television show is Tom & Jerry, and her favorite animal is a rabbit.
She loves to sing and dance and wants to learn gymnastics. She is a "B" average student according to her teacher. She is good at everything except Math we were told, but she told us she loved Math! She loves to write and tell stories. She says she makes up stories and poems all the time. She even rehearsed one to us while we were visiting. She is very imaginative! She also has creative and imaginative dreams. Her favorite thing to do is....DRAW!!!
She is very shy but once you get to know her we are told she is very social. She is small for her age (just a little taller than Nathanael!). She will be in the 4th grade in America but it may take awhile to get her caught up because she in the orphanage they had her in 2nd grade.
We will keep her name as well and add a middle name. Maria is the name of Larry's grandmother so that excited us! Nathanael still is stuck to the name "Chloe" and asked that we use that for her second name. We are thinking about it.
2 comments:
The first thing Kendi said was that Anastacia looked like Nathaniel! Both girls are beautiful. There is definitely something in their eyes that speak to us that they somehow belong with your family. You can feel their special spirits! I hope that things continue to go well. So, the birds sing all the time, or at least make a lot of noise. That's good. I hope that you see a bluebird!
Congratulations. Sometimes you feel like everything is out of control and then it happens, and you know these are the children God has intended for you.
We adopted from Poludino in June of this year. Say hi to Yuriy (the director) from "The Brown's". Good luck with the rest of your journey,and Yes, isn't Petro a wonderful little city. Make sure you get to the "Arabica" coffee house, they do wonderful cappachinos
P.S.Our daughter recognised Nastia.
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