Adoption Day

Tomorrow is Braylen's Adoption Day or Gotch Day. Since she will be at Awana tomorrow, we decided to celebrate today. While she was at school today, I set up her Adoption Day Corner. I got out all the things we bought in Kazakhstan and put them on display. She loved seeing it all and asking and learning. That little girl learned so much today! She had a lot of fun and it was fun to teach her about Kazakhstan.

One tradition we have is to make a food from Kazakhstan each year. I asked Braylen what she wanted me to fix for supper today and she wanted breakfast food. That made it very simple. I made Russian pancakes called Biliny. We got the recipe from our translator while in Kazakhstan. They were yummy!

Braylen enjoyed reading a book from Kazakhstan that had the Kazakh, Russian and English translation, seeing Tenge money, playing with alphabet blocks and playing with a Kazakh barbie. I think her favorite was playing with the Russian stackable wooden dolls--cannot remember the name.

Mamaw Carol and Great Grandma Fleck joined us tonight. Mamaw brought her a balloon and Grandma brought her a Care Bear. We had a great evening and we feel very blessed to have Braylen in our forever family!