We are getting there...

Here are some photos, finally. We don't have any as yet from our time in Russia, but these are better indicators of the girls anyway.

We are finally beginning to feel human again. Lizzy is sleeping well, Addy hasn't decided yet to sleep consistently. Well, she is consistently early in waking. We felt pretty good about things this morning when she got us up at 5:30 if that gives you any indication. Hopefully she is still messed up from a time zone standpoint!

We have shared some incredibly frustrating moments and some incredibly happy moments. We've had all three girls in the bathtub at the same time the last few nights and the happy splashing and shrieking is music to our ears. Especially since we'd had unhappy splashing and shrieking the first couple times we tried to bathe Lizzy. Lizzy's face just lit up tonight when Scott gave her chocolate pudding. She fully appears to think she's died and gone to heaven with the wonders of plentiful food and freedom (pretty much!) to run and play.

Both girls love Rina; she can get them to do things that we cannot without a fight. Rina thinks there are some real high points and some real low points about this whole little sister thing. We've heard her scream on a number of occasions, "Go home stupid babies!!!" but a few moments later she'll be leaning in close to one and saying, "Ya teb-ya loo-bloo loo-bloo." If you leave off the last "loo-bloo" that's "I love you" (phonetically) in Russian.