The Weekend

I can hardly believe the girls started their second week of school today. I know they felt the weekend flew by as they were busy with their first soccer match, meeting more relatives for the first time and their first full morning at church with Olena and Julia in children's church and Aimee sitting with us during the service.
Saturday morning was Olena and Aimee's first soccer game. They lost but had a lot of fun playing in their team jerseys. Following the game we had lunch at Stan's parents where the girls met Stan's Uncle Hank and Aunt Sally. A highlight of the visit was touring the RV that Hank and Sally came in. I can't remember how many times the girls simply said, "Wow!" (Aimee also said "Oh, my head!" a couple of times, an example of some more colloquial English that they are picking up.)
Sunday morning the girls met my parents for the first time as they had just arrived from India. They bounded right into Grandma and Grandpa's house and started exploring right away. When I first pointed to my mom and asked Olena who this was, she immediately came up with "Grandpa!" She had learned to say "Grandmother" and "Grandfather" in English class in Ukraine so these abbreviated names were a bit confusing at first. When we came back later for lunch, they cleaned out the play house and tried out the bikes they found in the garage with much enthusiasm. Olena has already ordered her birthday cake from Grandpa with "Aslan, Peter, Edmund, Lucy, and Susan."
She has become quite a fan the Chronicles of Narnia films. Another big hit in our home are the Anne of Green Gables movies. They love to recite with much giggling the scene where Anne is rescued by Gilbert (whom they call Yogurt for lack of better pronunciation)from under a bridge after her rowboat sinks.