the living room -- through one of the double doors is our bedroom, through the other is the second livingroom and everyone elses bedroom
the kitchen (do you see that your suitcase has become our kitchen cupboard heidi?)
the second living room
nikolai gave des some of his russian soldier stuff to pin on. des liked it.
des and pavel (nikolai and luba's 19yearold son)
i like this russian soldier stuff (mom grimmacing on the sidelines)
salute!
nate des & nikolai
desi brushing his hair for church
all ready for church! take two steps to the couch please.
the church choir
the stinky piggies!
found an egg!
putting the egg in the bucket
kitty!
hello kitty
zoe gathering eggs
hello chickens
peasant girl
nikolai making pelmeni -- yumyumyum!
eating flour -- whenever luba or nikolai make pelmeni zoe like to help and usually just sits there and eats the flour
in our bedroom
silly!
i love this face!
the only way to travel to school!
the first day of school
marching through the streets on the first school morning
the school!
nate and des approaching
hopscotch instead of school?
gearing up for a grueling day
zoe at her cubbylocker
desi at his cubby locker -- ballons!
proud owner of a new cubbylocker
the kids change into their inside clothes and put everything into their lockers here and then enter the classroom
the cozy nap room -- des is there sleeping, do you see him?
desi's classroom
more of desi's classroom
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des&dad playing with spiderman memory cards
nikolai's frozen dom in march
zoe acquainting herself with the snow
falling down in the snow
mom&zoe
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making friends with the kitty
walking n podsosnovo -- des attracting the dogs
zoe and dad on one of our first walks in pods.
des is not the best walker sometimes -- so frustrating
checking things out
snow bunnies
in our hotel room in podsosnovo -- we just spotted a kazakh horse and sleigh outside so zoe&dad are peering out the window (pic of sleigh to come)
kazakh horse and sleigh
pucker up!
nate chillin with russian mafia shaved head
playing superheros in the hotel hallway with new friend ellionna.
superhero training
superhero training 2
the never ending steppe
des taking a dive on the steppe
heather&nathan
heather&nathan2
hay for the cows
welcome to podsosnovo russia!
trying to stay entertained in the hotel as we await our housing fate
watching a video in the hotel
reaching new heigh
