Anya's home!

Well I have had a wonderful and much needed break from blogging, facebook, etc. but I'm popping back in everywhere to say that Anya is home!  Those of you who have followed my blog for awhile know the struggles we had when we brought Oksana home.  This could not be more different.  Don't get me wrong.  It's exhausting and hard but in a whole different way.  Oksana is doing far better than I EVER expected.  I can't begin to tell you how proud I am of her!  Something tells me Risperdal has a thing or two to do with it!  She goes back to school on Thursday so I'm anxious to see how she does with that transition.  Anya is testing every limit out there but as soon as she starts driving me crazy she does something super sweet and I get over it pretty quick :).  She is literal non stop motion so Larry and I are busy ALL DAY LONG.  It's been quite an adjustment adapting to 4 kids.  We just said today that we had gotten so incredibly comfortable with 3 kids, and we know we will get there again, but right now it feels a bit like chaos and we aren't feeling like we are doing a great job of meeting the needs of all of our kids.  Our boys are adjusting fine but Anya can be, well....., a bit much.  She isn't gentle at all and she dives on the boys, hits them, and gets in their face.  They like her they just really don't know what to do with her yet.  I think when she calms down a bit...she will calm down, right?.....they will enjoy her a bit more. 

So I do feel ready to get back in the swing of things as far as this blog goes but seriously sometimes I hardly feel like I have time to go potty (is that TMI? :) so I'll be back as much as I am able to.  There is so much I'd like to share with you about the last couple of months but I just don't have time for backtracking so I'm going to move forward from here.  To start I'll post a few pictures...and I do mean a few.  I haven't had much of a chance at all to take pictures since she's been home!  I remember it being the same with Oksana too so I'll do my best to get some good pictures in here when I can.  Our friend Nicki met us at the airport when Anya came home and got some great shots.  I'm so thankful for her or you might be looking at a very blank blog.  If you're friends with me on Facebook, I apologize, because you are getting these twice but if not enjoy!...