Sunday, May 30th - Happy 21st Birthday, Tucker!

Cooper says that Scott woke her up talking. She doesn't know what about. I'm glad he feels comfortable expressing himself in his own language. I know he understands that we speak a different language than his, but I'm not sure if he realizes that we really don't know much Russian at all. We have been calling him Scott Kirill and are beginning to drop the Kirill more and more. I wasn't sure how the best way to do this with a 5 year old. Hearing him say with a grin, "My name is Scott Kirill," over and over again while back in Almaty has made me feel really good about his name. He seems to like his name and now when we just say "Scott" he is beginning to respond. I think Kirill is a pretty name but we are choosing to give him a new start with a new name (a name that will always bring up wonderful memories of my brother and a name that people won't have to ask, "How do you say that? How do you spell Kirill?")

Lot's of first for the boy today - trip to Cambridge Park with both his sisters and his daddy (this mama stayed home feeling like she's been head by a truck all day with jet lag big time. Cooper and Scott