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Hurray!
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Congratulations Vanya and Luka!We are proud to inform you that we have found two children that would love to be part of your family!Motya Anastasiya (7 years old) and Yuri Shura (5 years old), two healthy siblings from Russia. They have been living in an orphanage from as long as they can remember and are waiting for a family to adopt them.
Motya is a quirky little girl that loves to dance and play with other children. She makes friends very easily and her favourite game is pass the parcel. She is really looking forward to a new family with hopefully many children.
Yuri is five and very big for his age. He was born death on one ear and without his thumbs, but this doesn't stop him. He has learned to hold cutlery or pens with his other fingers and when playing hockey, his favourite sport, he doesn't miss his hearing ability too much.
He hopes that he will have at least one older brother, as Motya always wants to play dressing up and he is fed up of it.We hope that you get along well with them, we would love to hear how it went.
Yours,
Rainbow House
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Dear Rainbow House, We are happy to update you on the children we adopted. They arrived a little over seven months ago. Our children liked them right away. It helped that Mir was already adopted, so he felt connected to Motya and Yuri. As with Mir, we decided to give Motya a nickname. She chose Tia. Since Luka and I are of Russian heritage, all of our children speak Russian. It made the transition much easier. Tia and Yuri are still learning English, but they make progress every day. When Luka was younger, he played professional hockey. Now he is retired and works as a talent scout. Our boys have grown up playing hockey though and they were all too happy to let Yuri join in the fun. Alexei, Mir, and Roman haven't changed all that much. They are the same 'Three Musketeers' that they've always been. Of course, they play with Tia and Yuri, but not as much as their younger siblings. Motya has loved having two younger sisters to play with. At first, Anna was a little perturbed about Tia being older than her, but she soon warmed up to the idea. Kitty adores Tia and plays with her all the time. Tia and Anna are taking dance lessons now and we hope to start Kitty on them next year. Yuri is adjusting well. He and Evgeni really hit it off. Yuri likes to play with him and make funny faces at him. Yuri plays with the older boys some too. They mostly play hockey, but they also play in the boys' fort and ride the horses on our property. We are considering getting some tests done to see if Yuri is eligible for a hearing aid or a cocheral implant (?). However, he never complains about not being able to hear and it doesn't seem to bother him at all.

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