Saturday, August 27, 2005
The weather has turned unusually cool – mid-upper 80’s in the late afternoon. Not bad for August. The trip to the grocery store this morning was not the usual sweatfest.
Alesia and I met Maria and Perrin at a great place here that is a huge indoor climbing wall. Alesia climbed for a long time and had a lot of fun. She is getting really muscular. I have been looking for an activity for her, and this might be the one. She scrambled up those walls like a monkey. There is a club for climbers - she could try that and see if she wanted to be on a team. It will probably all depend on how sore she is tomorrow!
Maria has an exchange student living with her for several months, 16 year old Sam. He is from Australia. He is quiet and polite, a really nice kid. I was impressed with how good he was with the younger kids. He’s a cutie pie too – in a few years he’ll be a real heartbreaker.
Alesia’s behavior has improved 100% and she is trying to control herself and not act pouty. She came close this morning in the store. Mom got her cheered up.
I have had the pleasure of sharing fun movies with Alesia since we got on Netflix. The other night we watched Private Benjamin. Tonight we watched Romancing the Stone. I remember when each of those came out, and I thought what hip, cool movies they were. Now they seem hopelessly dated. Alesia enjoyed them both, however. That’s the important part.
Tonight when we were getting ready to watch Romancing the Stone, Alesia looked at me and said "What's this about? It's about like how people they kissing and stuff?" I thought about it a moment and said "Yes, that's it. Watch and learn."
I looked on a website about Ukrainian adoption and showed Alesia some of the photos of kids who have been adopted from there. She didn't seem particularly interested, except to say the babies were cute. I asked her if she would prefer to have a little brother instead of a sister, and she just shrugged and said "I dunno." It wasn't a Hallmark moment, but it was genuine.
