6-th month Сlick here for RUSSIAN!
December 23 (5 months and 10 days)
Stayki trip

The whole day we spent in our village, waiting for the workers to finish installing the protective shields on the windows. There is a special word for that but I am too lazy to look for the dictionary. The air was minus 6 today (c), and it was a gorgeous sunny white golden and pinkish day. The ex-owners of the house (our house, hard to believe!) finally moved out today and it was the first day today that we could arrange our stuff and make ar least some resemblance of order.
As far as the political situation is concerned: things are more or less quiet, now we all wait for Sunday. There are pracrically no doubts that it will be a loss for the bandit and his bandit party and finaly we will have some democracy. However, we all know that he will do everything possible to keep the power, or at least some of it and thus is ready for all sorts of provocations.
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December 24 (5 months and 11 days)
Skating


So, it’s the Christmas eve today. It is so strange but we seem to become more and more patriotic – our Ukrainian orthodox Christmas is on 7-th January. And today we just had a supper, little more unusual than ever, had some beer and that’s it. We are really low on cash now so the presents will come on the New Year.
And we had a great skating session.
Katie is sitting pretty well by now. And she was absolutely stunned by her hew giant beatle toy. It looks yucky and it skweaks too.
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December 25 (5 months and 13 days)
Village trip#2


We’ve spent a gorgeous day at our village. I woke up at quarter to 6 AM and by 8:12 we set off from the car park at the supermarket. Firstly, we to a town called Obukhiv, about 10 Km from our village where Boris was already waiting for us.
Sani was a little nightmare. I wanted to leave him with dad at home first, but the thought of him getting some fresh air away from the city compensated all of his nastiness in the car. He is a kid after all and for them it is natural to be loud, mean and incontrollable.
On the pictures – some views on the Dnipro river on the way to our village, me, trying to open the bottle using the road sign and grandma with Boris setting up the new bed.
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December 29 (5 months and 15 days)
Katies' new life values


Well, she is not the charming little baby any more. She's learned the trick finaly and the moment there is a threat of transfer from the parents' arms into the crib - we get her loud cry full of indignation. It is not yet 8 p.m. and there is just one thing I want - SLEEP!!!
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December 31 (5 months and 17 days)
Last night of 2004


We toyed with the idea of going to the central square – the Kiev Maidan, which was the heart of the Orange revolution and a popular place to meet the new yearm (there is usually a concert with our pop stars – and the Eurovision star Ruslana this time), but we estimated that this time there will be too many people, so in the end we stayed in.
Sani was awake practically the whole evening and finally gave up lust some ten minutes before midnight. Katie was asleep too. I thought of waking her up – y’know, the first time in her life there comes the New year, but dad was against, so she overslept the whole thing.
Later on this night I learned that a friend of mine, Nina, is al alone at home ill, so I took Katie (cause it was close to her night feeding time) and went over to see her.
There were crowds of people all over the place and as I was walking to the car park the sky was pink with fireworks and there was so much noise and shooting it felt like were in the midst of some severe fighting.
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January 1 - 5
First week of 2005


We weren’t doing much – practically every other day went to the village. And I had a number of job offers and the last one finally brought me to an interview which I passed and I am a working mom!. The company is Canadian, thus the working hours are from 5 p.m. till 1 a.m. which is absolutely ideal for me, cause I will have all this time from 11-ish (as I wake up) till 4-ish for the kiddos. The money could have been better, but I have to start doing something now – only 6 months to go till summer and I really want to go somewhere this time, and I must start saving already now. I start on Monday.
I was worried a bit how dad will go with Katie. We bought her the formula – just for two feedings – the rest will be provided by me in the daytime. He seems to be doing fine with both of them.
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January 6 (5 months and 23 days)
The village again!


This time it was bad! We went there with Boris and our dad and the kiddos – just to take the antique wooden cupboard to the village, but in the end we’ve spent there the whole day assembling the JYSK chairs and table that we brought yesterday.
In the evening we picked up Julia to stay with us for the weekend.
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January 7 (5 months and 24 days)
Skating


I couldn’t believe it when Julia said that there is poo on the floor near sani’s bed. He himself was very quiet the whole morning and did not leave his room. And there was poo. Apparently the incident happened in his sleep, he took of his pajama bottom and it sort of fell out…
This is the result of him eating too many sweets from the Christmas present he got at the party with the grandma.
Katie was absolutely intolerable and was crying the whole day. In the evening I took Sani and Julia skating (and Katie finally fell asleep and stayed home with dad).

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January 9 (5 months and 26 days)
Skating again and first "mama"

Well, today was one more time when Katie said a very distinkt "mama".
In the evening Sani had a short nap then a little snack and we went skating again. I feel really prowd of myself becuse today was the first time both of them - Sani and Julia skated by themselves, without haning on me. Well done, kiddos!
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