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UN: enlatiah
LN: Huntley
DH: Andrew Garrett
DW: Lizzie Faith
DD: Michaela Abylai (13)
DD: Charlotte Kushikbai (12)
DD: Sonnet Isabelle Clementine (5)
DD: Emelie Toktasyn (5)
DS: Tucker Matthew (3)
Dgrandmother: Mildred Pauline
Horse: Alexandrine
Dog: Esperanza

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It's been an eventful three years. The big news is our family has grown by three! We have adopted 3 girls from Kazakhastan. After watching a special on children in orphanages that brought tears to my eyes, Andrew and I decided to adopt. We didn't care from what country, we just knew it was something we needed to do.

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Michaela Abylai, 13; Charlotte Kushikbai, 12; and Emelie Toktasyn, 5 are sisters. They have the beautiful long brown hair, and the most amazingly deep brown eyes. The people at the orphanage couldn't tell us alot about their history, just that they were left on their doorstep when Emelie was an infant.
They have started school here in American and are learning English very fast.

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Sonnet has also started "big girl school." She loves her teacher and is showing an interest in art.

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Tucker has just started preschool. He says his favorite activity is recess and his least favorite is naptime.

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My grandmother is still with us. We decided with the new children, that some extra help would be nice.

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question: I hope it was okay that I gave them American first names and middle names from Kazakhastan.

This message was edited 12/21/2006, 8:31 AM