Today we had a fun group event with the other host families and their children. A family from our church has horses so they invited the children to come ride. Olegs and Kristine both love horses like I do so it was special to see how much they enjoyed riding. There were only 3 horses and 14 kids so the kids had to take turns being led around the ring. It didn’t seem to bother them though. Olegs found some boys to play soccer with while he was waiting his turn and Kristine had plenty of girls to hang out with so she was happy.
We all brought a picnic type meal for our families and hung out and visited with the other families after the kids finished riding. There were many adopted kids there with their adoptive parents as well. It was great for Olegs and Kristine to be able to hang out with other kids who had already been adopted from Latvia. When we got home, they named several of the children and asked us if they’d been adopted. We answered truthfully that “yes” they had but luckily Olegs and Kristine didn’t press us about their individual situations. They do ask us frequently if we like them and we tell them we not only like them, we LOVE them! They tell us they like us now too and once or twice have even said they love us. So sweet!
Today we had a fun group event with the other host families and their children. A family from our church has horses so they invited the children to come ride. Olegs and Kristine both love horses like I do so it was special to see how much they enjoyed riding. There were only 3 horses and 14 kids so the kids had to take turns being led around the ring. It didn’t seem to bother them though. Olegs found some boys to play soccer with while he was waiting his turn and Kristine had plenty of girls to hang out with so she was happy.
We all brought a picnic type meal for our families and hung out and visited with the other families after the kids finished riding. There were many adopted kids there with their adoptive parents as well. It was great for Olegs and Kristine to be able to hang out with other kids who had already been adopted from Latvia. When we got home, they named several of the children and asked us if they’d been adopted. We answered truthfully that “yes” they had but luckily Olegs and Kristine didn’t press us about their individual situations. They do ask us frequently if we like them and we tell them we not only like them, we LOVE them! They tell us they like us now too and once or twice have even said they love us. So sweet!
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