Day 158 of 365 Days of Being Thankful

         Today I am thankful for the scrap books that I had Olivia and Olya make when we first adopted them.  I had forgotten all about the books!  My niece Natasha, who grew up in the same Ukrainian orphanage with Olivia,  came in the other day to see how I was doing.  She and Olivia were best friends in the orphanage in Ukraine.  I kept advocating for Natasha to try to find a family to adopt her.  Little did I know that my sister would wind up adopting her!! While she was here, we were chatting about the orphanage.  She told me that she had no pictures of herself as a baby or as a little girls.  She said that she really wished she had a photo.  Olivia ran upstairs and got her "scrap" book.  There were several pictures of Natasha in the book!
Olivia's Book
 
First dentist visit in the U.S.

Simferopol. Ukraine Orphanage

Olivia's Groupa

Olivia is in the middle!
Orphanage friends!!

Olivia is behind the yellow stuffed animal
 
We refer to the books as their  baby books.  I had Olya make one too when we first adopted her.  I mentioned it to her today and she said......"I don't remember doing it." But she went up to her room and found her book. 


Disney


Field Hockey
 
Olya's first U.S Christmas and first week in school.

Photos from Ukraine.  Some are from the orphanage in Novomirgorad, Ukraine.  Olya's older bio sister Sveta is in the bottom middle photo with Olya in their family home in Petrov, Ukraine.
 
 

I loved looking through both of their books!  They were both so adorable and just so, so cute!

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