4 months home

Well we have been home 4 months already ! Ulia has been accepted into the Pre -K program at the Elementary school so she will be starting in July ( we are in year round school here) She currently goes to the school a few hours a week for therapy and Loves it! I think she will do so well in school. She is so vocal and has no problem fitting in,her English is so great. Ulia is a very outgoing, loving, funny girl. She is very much aware of the fact that she is the princess around here,especially with her 3 brothers.

Ulia the shadow

Juliana (Ulia as we call her) is doing great.She has learned so much English its unreal.The newest pictures our of her in her new black shirt.She wants the same color clothes as me everyday,so we had to go out and buy her a black shirt since I seem to wear a lot of it. She is truly my shadow.

Home almost 12 weeks

Fitting right in

Now that we have been home over a month,Juliana is fitting right in! She has managed to learn so many things....her favorite being "mummy come here" She is my shadow,she does not let me out of her site. Juliana is doing great with her new glasses.

She is starting to play with the boys more and more each day.She will yell at them in Russian when ever she feels they are not doing the right thing,it is hysterical to watch.
Each night she comes to each of us and says "give me kiss,give me hug, I love you" and is just so happy with herself when she gets done with each of us.

New Glasses

This song sums up our adoption

Check out my Slide Show!

My foursome

Some pictures

another outfit!

Almost a month

Its hard to believe that Juliana has been home with us almost a month. She is doing so well and has brought a whole new personality into the house. Juliana has learned to say "I love you" and says it to us all the time ! She loves to give hugs and kisses also. I crack up when you hand her something she always says "oh Thank you" in the funniest little voice, it doesn't matter what it is its the same response.
She has been to the eye doctor and is going to be getting glasses, I think this will make her happy as she always wants to wear mine.
Juliana is still amazed that all the clothes in her closet are hers she takes forever picking out something to wear. I hope when she gets older this wont be a problem..We will never get her out of the house :)

New pictures

Info on the Cadman Foundation

We have had many people ask how they can help and wanting info on our grant. To those interested in the Cadman Foundation here is the link.
Adoption Assistance - Cadman Foundation

The Cadman Foundation, has offered us a matching grant to help with some of our adoption costs, the info is on the web site. It is a tax deductible donation the check gets made out and mailed to the Cadman Foundation, just enclose a note saying for the "Pairman Adoption" and it will go to our grant.
P.S Please don't write our name on the check,only Cadman Foundation

A few Thanks

I just wanted to post a note saying thank you to all of those that helped out during our adoption.
Thanks to my mom Bah boosh ka (grandmother in Russian). Thank you for coming out and staying with the boys while we were gone. We know we probably will never get you back to see us again after so long with them,but they had a great time with you.
Also thank you all who contributed to the Cadman Foundation on our behalf.
Adoption Assistance - Cadman Foundation
With out the donations of those who donated and still are donating we would not have been able to complete this adoption.
To our agency World Links, Adoption Agency - World Links International Adoption Agency who made this a quick and somewhat easy process.
And to all our friends and family who have supported us thru this we thank each of you.

A whole new world

Its hard to believe we have only been home going on 2 weeks Juliana fits right in as if we had her forever.Things are going pretty well,our biggest issue is going to sleep and waking at night but each night it gets a little better.Alex has started to call her DQ for Drama Queen, as she knows how to throw a fit when she wants to. She is picking up words each day which is amazing to me. She loves to play patty cake and give high fives!
I was thinking today about how well she is really doing,Bob and I where in Russia for almost a month and found it so hard to go some places with out knowing the language and here she is 4 years old and has had her world turned upside down and she is doing pretty good with it.
The first days home she screamed when the dog came near her,now she pets him and runs after him.Ben and Zack are the proud big brothers (Ben does not realize that he is actually 2 months younger) and Alex is I think is loving having a little sister.

Say Cheese!

Today was Julianas first ride on the boys tractor,she laughed so hard and thought it was the greatest!

Welcome Home From the boys

Back to the good Ole USA

Well, after a few days on Moscow we have arrived home! Juliana has been very good.She had a pretty good flight for having to sit there for over 10 hours. The boys our just smitten with her! and she with them.
Kelly

Merry Christmas & toddler too

Well, we got the goods today! Juliana is now with us.She did pretty well in the car util the last 1/2 hour of the drive were she deided it was time to puke all over mommy.Once she did that she was fine.We made it back to the hotel about 8pm.She was a bit to wired to sleep, so she took inventory of the room. Once she got tired she realized she was with us and she pretty much got freaked out and cried for about 1hour and finaly feel asleep around 1 am in my arms.