Thursday, June 24 - So maybe we celebrated the "finally playing together" too soon. Awful morning/afternoon - I guess for Cooper and Brady this is the same as bringing a baby home from the hospital and the older one says, "can we send him back now?" Very disappointed that Brady's being loving and tolerant of Scott day before yesterday was short lived. Victoria (Ukraine woman) came this afternoon so I could go over to the new house and check on things (without kids). Our visit to lighting/plumbing center yesterday with kids involved a worker having to unscrew/remove the doorknob to get Cooper out of the bathroom she had locked herself into. Then of course, Scott had to go to the bathroom right after that (while the worker was trying to screw the know back on the door). They were glad to see us go! Scott acted strange around Victoria today. It's hard to tell, but he may not want to continue with hearing Russian anymore. Cooper didn't like being around adult Asian's at all the year she came home with us. I have read that a child adopted internationally between 4-6 years of age will lose his ability to speak that language within 2-3 months and his ability to understand the language in 3-5 months. This same article talks about cognitive function being lost as the native language is lost. I'd like to hang on to all the cognitive functioning we can around here since I'm losing most of mine. Not sure how often would be needed to hear Russian being spoken for our son to retain his spoken language.

I listened to a great Focus on the Family radio broadcast sitting in a store parking lot while Victoria was at the house. Dr. Kevin Leman, author of "Have a New Kid by Friday," was speaking. I bought the book.