Something Awesome Happened Today!!

The last two days with the boys have been great!! Admittedly, the last two days have been Wayne's days to stay home.....and my days to work!! Maybe they save the acting our for Mom!! At any rate.....the kids seem to be back on track!! Today we went to our local Community College and met two of the basketball players (on scholarship to the College) who are .......RUSSIAN!!! Is that awesome or what??? You should have seen the HUGE smile on Kylen's face when he heard them " gah -vaht- EE- tee Pah- ROO- ski" (speak Russian)!! We had him ask Kylen if he liked it here in America? "Dah" , he said. We had them ask he if he liked living with his Mama and Papa? "Dah", he said. I thought he would elaborate a little more with someone speaking Russian, but he was kind of shy. But I am really happy because these two basketball players can be his interpreter for his Academic Assessment that the school system wants to give him. It is important for your school age child to have an assessment in their native language (preferentually) within the first 3 months of coming to America. The school system is supposed to provide this......but here in Podunk, USA, we have to provide our own interpreter!! Oh....the school system did offer to pur our child in the Special Education Class this fall!! Whatever!! At any rate.....it is important to have the assessment in their own language so you can determine what is a learning disability, academic deficit, etc...... versus them not understanding the language ( i.e. such as waiting and doing the assessment in English........and them possibly not understanding the English enough to score well, and it would be a false assessment of their true level of learned knowlege. So these guys are going to be helping us out.......cool, huh? Oh, and get this.......(this is HILARIOUS!!)! We were leaving the gym today after meeting Vitaly and Artem, and I smiled at Kylen, and pointed to the boys and said "Ya Roo-ski"! I repeated and pointed to them (meaning they are Russian)! He (Kylen) turned to me, raised up his shoulders ( as if to say "so??") and smiled at me.....pointed to himself and said " Ya ung- GLEE- ski!!" Saying......."I am English... (or American is what he meant!!). The kid cracked me up!! Can you imagine it!! Dear Blogger friends, I apologize for the brief hiatus......but I promise....the rest of the Court story this weekend!!