Two weeks from today we are on a plane heading to NJ. We are going to get our van, which has been at my parents since July and visit with Garry's parents in Ontario on the way home to Manitoba- arrival in St Labre- about Dec 15th.

It has been a week of ups and downs for the boys- on Thursday we moved into our new bedroom and they moved into the big bedroom. They were excited about all the new space.

On Saturday morning they buried their Kitten Tabby, he had been sickly since Garry brought him home in September after little Velcro went missing while we were in Crimea (the carpenters let her out of the room and house) Tabby got a cold and was dead in Seth's bed in the morning, so we had two sad boys went we got home from Russian lessons.

Sunday we went to church here in the village, there were Canadian (and US) visitors- a youth team that will be in Zaphorosia for 7 months. In the afternoon we headed to Dnepro to start celebrating Jonah's birthday early with a trip to the circus. It was as good or better than the first one we saw- lots of trained animals, acrobats, fire and magic acts! We had dinner at Mc Donalds and picked up a cake for Jonah's birthday as the new stove won't be working until the three phase power is hooked up- maybe before we leave----

Jonah turned 14 yesterday and was busy assembling lego, and petting his new kitten- a tiny furry fake one- she'll be just fine while we are away!