Celery, Gathering, Siblings

Hi everyone.

Just a bit about the last couple days, which as always, include little family stories.

Looking at this picture just makes me want no not vegetables but a new camera. I always use my phone camera and it takes pretty good quality pictures for a phone but as you can see this picture is blurry (more likely my fault) but either way I want to get a quality camera. This is Miss. Irina getting ready for her cell group meeting. She was making lots to eat with me in the midst of it all trying to make myself useful, because I slept over Friday night. She kept exclaiming that she cut her celery all the same size(so I thought she must be hinting at a blog post)...so next time do comment on her celery cutting skills ;). 

The reason I slept over was because we had a gathering Friday night at Irina's house. That is all I will say about that ;)

Now onto Lena. I'm sure y'all are always looking forward to more Lena stories. Well here are a few that I would like to remember: She kept begging to sign up for fitness club because "whatever she asks, her parents won't let her do." So she signed up; fitness club is before school so she wakes up at 6:30, struggles out of bed but goes because as she said, "this is the perfect opportunity for me to lose weight" when I asked her why she was doing it. She said she and another girl were the only girls there. She also wants a North face jacket. Finally, all she needs is a book and Mark's ipod. This was her at piano lessons waiting while it was Mark's turn.  

This is "hot stuff" Mark. Funny story that some of you have heard already. He waits to do homework at 9 pm because he needs time to "rest" and ends up staying up till 1 or 2 or 3 some nights doing homework and usually doesn't nap after school. So one day he decided to nap and woke up at 6 PM. He got dressed did his hair, and went down stairs. He saw Victor and said, "why aren't you sleeping? Go back to bed." Victor said, "what are you talking about? It's only 6.""Exactly" Mark said. Mark thought it was 6 AM. Then he saw his other siblings and got more confused so he asked Yuriy whether it was AM or PM. The very next day he woke up again-from his nap. Got dressed for school, did his hair (which is very important to him), grabbed his trumpet and went down stairs. So, it took his a good 15 min to do all that. The house was quiet so he kept going along with it. I don't think many of us were home that night. He came downstairs ready to have breakfast and saw that it was 7:40. This confused him because he thought he missed the bus. Anyway, he then realized that it's night time.

I ask that you please don't repeat that you read this about him to him because he doesn't know this blog exists and I don't know if he would appreciate me writing about him ;) Later he'll thank me for having "remembered" this-right?

Tomorrow I hope to catch up on some Andrew and Leah stories :)

Blessings,

Lesya