One Month Update
We have been home for a month. The girls started 9th grade and have made a few new friends (especially two boys, of course!). We have enjoyed time with the kids for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
The girls are so much fun to have around! Yet as expected, we have some teen challenges:
- They love junk food, but dislike most everything else
- Living in an orphanage provided structure, but not much one-on-one attention. I suspect they lived as "us against the world" before, so the idea of a family is still new. They do not always consider the effect of their behavior on others and are not accustomed to parental oversight.
- I made the mistake of buying them cell phones which they spend way too much time texting and playing Spanish music and movies - slowing their English progress. The phones have now been temporarily taken away by their evil parents.
But overall, they are delightful girls. We have brought them to the Mall of America amusement park, the Minnesota Zoo, and ice skating. Their favorite activity so far is skiing. Here are Rosio, Kim, and Alejandra skiing at Hyland Hills on Sunday:
