BUNICA MICA

PERSPECTIVE

This morning while preparing for school there was an on-going "the sky is falling and life as we know it has ended on the planet earth" angst with an un-named daughter that spilled from breakfast into the car as I took the three of them to school. While the rest of us were trying to rationally encourage this particular daughter (to no avail, I might add), Sofie chimed in from the back seat and said:

SOFIE: "Dad, I'm confused about something."

DAD: "What?"

SOFIE: "Well, if two people are playing hide and go seek and they both want to hide in the same place, what do you do?"

DAD: "Well, I guess the person who got there first gets to keep that spot, since that is respectful."

SOFIE: "Yea, I was thinking that, unless they are on a team and then they can hide together."

Now, THAT is perspective!

CAN SHE REALLY BE 4??

PRICELESS

CHILLIN'

"OUR BIG BACKYARD"

These pictures are at "our big backyard," or the park across the street from our apartment building. Our lives in Bucharest have been lived here.... countless afternoons and nights (in warm weather) spent on these benches and toys. It is our backyard, where we go to get outside. It is as familiar to us as your yard is to you. We know every nook and cranny, every toy, every piece of graffiti, every face that sits here (all of the grandmothers!). We know all the kids and if they are mean or nice. My girls have learned an awful lot about life here and, at least for the older two, it is burned into their memories as "this is what childhood looks like."

ONE FANCY CHICK!

SOFIA: IN ALL HER GLORY

YOU HAD TO BE THERE

A FEW SOFIA MOMENTS

SOFIA (LONG OR BULGARIA??)

A friend recently went to Sofia, Bulgaria.... they spell the city's name the same way we spell our daughter's name.... or maybe they did it first! Anyway, here is their train station with her name on it!

RIDE LIKE THE WIND

Last night, we walked down to parcul Tineretului and Sofia and Mikie rode some carnival rides.... all was well for a while, then the inevitable fear-stricken melt-down occured.... we'll spare you those photos.

DOUBLE VISION

SHE DOESN'T LOOK SO SURE ABOUT THAT!

A LITTLE SOFIA...... AGAIN

Lisa is trying to chronicle Sofia's first year here.... now that she walks, everything is fascinating to her!

TODAY IN THE NEWS

....I can't get enough of a good, English newspaper to start my day abroad!

DRINKIN' N' DRIVIN'

MY BAGS ARE PACK AND I'M READY TO GO!

SOFIE & MACK HANGING AT CRACKER BARREL

OH, THIS CAKE IS DELICIOUS!