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BSchoer10:
DH: Vladislav Zelenko, 55
DW: Bethanie Lu, 39
DD: Louisa Maeve, 9
DS/DS: Evander Ruben and Felix Andrew, 6
DS: Casimir Alexei.
DD: Ludmila Svetlana
DMother: Svetlana "Nanna" -80
Rabbit: Tumeric (nn Tumi)

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Vladislav insisted that his mother, Svetlana, move in with us, and I promptly agreed. Her name’s Svetlana, and she’s your typical Russian grandmother/mother-in-law – she cooks great food and is good with the kids. I wanted the children to call her by the Russian form of Grandmother, but Vladislav wanted her to be known as Nanna, which made matters easy. She moved in with us because her husband, Vitaly, died recently and we thought that she would like some company. Also, we needed a babysitter because I really wanted to get back into the workforce!

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Finally, we welcome baby number five into the world. Her name is Ludmila, which means “princess” in Ukrainian, and she’s really beautiful. She was born on September 29, and that’s her name day in Russian.

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Louisa Maeve feels very lucky to have a little sister, and she’s been doing really well in school. She’s passed all of her reading tests with flying colours and has been doing very well at her language school. Evander and Felix are also doing excellently – they stick together most of the time and like playing in the backyard rather than sitting at the computer playing games. Casimir has developed a strange habit that has worked to our advantages – he always puts our shoes in the one spot, lined up against the wall in the foyer. It’s very cute and we always get a good laugh out of it.

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i> Try to be the best you can be, and if you can't then you can just pretend! :D