Meie Kaksikud - Our Twins

Our first family camping trips occured last week.

We celebrated our first Mother's Day with the boys.

I planned to spend 4 weeks in the US and Canada, transporting cars back for Canadian snowbirds -which has been a good short term income each spring and fall. After delivering my first car -i was restricted in traveling to the US for 14 days, which made it impossible for me to pick up 4 of the next 5 vehicles i had scheduled with clients. Then closing of the border made it impossible to pick up any. This made it my most unprofitable season ever. With international borders closing up fast, i made a decision to get back to my family ASAP. I contacted my clients who were mostly understandable, as attempted to reschedule my return flight to my family -while trying to find alternative drivers without travel restrictions for my clients. There was no way i was going to become trapped away from my family -potentially for months. So one week after i arrived, i had rescheduled my flight back to be reunited with my wife and kids. I'm so glad i did. The return trip was a bit intense, with...

Much has happened since the beginning of the year. The boys have grown, sleep more calmly at night, though it seems they try to test their boundaries further and further. Despite some expected challenges, our family continues to become more and more closely knit together as one. We visited the boys' grandparents in January, very nice and warm people whom we felt very comfortable visiting. The one shock was that the boys no longer conversed with them in their native Russian, but answered only in Estonian -without even realizing it. The switch from one language to another has happened so quickly. While the boys could understand their grandparents, they no longer understood the boys at all! Regardless, we'll continue to have a close relationship with them and work on reviving their Russian speaking skills. After the visit, the boys started to ask many questions about how to say things in their grandparents language. Liivi has started to remind them of many words and phrases. R...

Despite our best intentions make regular posts of our family developments, we just haven't found the time in the past and a half months

Last week we were told what was supposed to be the "worst joke ever": Two penguins walked up the stairs, one turned right and the other was yellow.  Everyone laughed, but we didn't understand the joke. Apparently there's not point to the joke, but it gave us a great way to announce to some of our friends the "birth" of our twins to our family: Two penguins walked up the stairs, one was five and the other one was his twin.  We have always wanted to adopt, regardless if we had our own kids or not. After taking an extensive pre-adoption course which we had just completed end of June, we felt more prepared to take a child of up to 5 years of age. Since we married, we've prayed, longed and hoped for our desire to be fulfilled, sill the call caught us completely by surprise on July 4th of this year. Less than two weeks ago we had discussed how wonderful it might be if God blessed us with twin boys, though weren't sure if or when we might be bless...