Our new 5 have been home now almost 4 months

I have shared below each child's update and pics... they have done amazingly well with transitioning into our very large family... we love seeing how much they overcome and accomplish even in so little time. All 5 are speaking English- even using lots of sentences. They will even speak some among all the siblings and not just rely on Russian. Some can read a bit and all are enjoying life. I love the holidays with new kids... I am always brought to tears by watching the kids on Christmas or even Thanksgiving. We are celebrating Fall on Sat. nite with our usual family party... just us but we have a great time. Sometimes we square dance ( the only time we ever do), we play bingo with candy corn, do a candy clue hunt,carve pumpkins( that will be 22 this year) and this year we are adding some other things that were done in a book we just finished reading in our homeschool. The kids are excited . We are celebrating on Sat. because Luke is having another surgery Thurday am.- His second cleft palate surgery and hopefully last one on his palate to close a lg. fistual ( hole ). We will be at Johns Hopkins for a couple of days. Hoping to be home Sat... so we can do the party with the rest of the family---