Day 2

So we went to Target today to restock the kitchen with apples and bananas.  The kids had eaten about 28 apples and a big bag of Costco bananas in the first 24 hours that they had been here.  It was pretty exciting to fill the bags with as many apples and different types of apples, as they could.  It took me only showing them once to put the apples in the plastic bags for them to put a little of everything in the plastic bags, including a coconut and carrots.  It was fun to watch them look at all the fruit and pick the things they liked out, they seemed to agree on most things.  Marina was getting after the other two all the time in the store, especially when I had them put back half of the candy they picked out and they didn't want to.  But we hadn't even gotten to the chocolate yet!  I knew they would want some of that, so they settled for a large jaw breaker (I still don't get those) and a LARGE gummy dinosaur.  And some how they all agreed on a bag of snickers.  They would point out coca-cola when ever they saw it and Red Bull.  Wouldn't have guessed that one.  Anya would do some crazy animal dance whenever we saw the Red Bull, pretty silly.

The boys went nuts in the the shoes!  My sister would have been envious.  They tried on every pair of shoes they could.  Who knew?  The girls wanted dress shoes, but that is what they wore over here, we needed to get them some shoes they could horse back ride in tomorrow.  It took a little convincing until they found gold/copper colored tennis shoes.  

Lori and Nick came shopping with us and then we went to their place to go SWIMMING.  Awesome.  The kids loved it.  Ivan did all of his tricks on the diving board.  Front and back flips and dives and then he headed to the top of the slide.  Amazing or crazy, I just kept saying be careful and he would smile and tell the kids to get out of the way.

Marina on the slide.
Anya riding Morgan's bike down to swim and sporting her new tennis shoes.

Ivan relaxing.

Anya on the slide.
Ivan doing a back flip.

Anya and Bohdan floating.  Bohdan and Lori came over for part of the afternoon.

Nick dunking and swinging on the rim, so everyone else had to try it.  Even my kids.  Yep, we had to go back to Lori's and swim again after my kids got home from school and piano lessons.  Little bit of jealousy going on.  In  fact Morgan kept telling me to quit taking pictures of everyone else so I could watch her swim.  Boy, am I in trouble!

Morgan on the rim.

Anya on the rim.

Grant jumping off the slide.  If Ivan and Nick could do it so could he!  A little peer pressure can be good at times.

Marina hanging out with Lori and I under the warmth of the beach towels.  It got cold without the sun out shining down on us.  But a great day!  Thanks O'Tooles!