A picture of the four of us… unfortunately we haven’t been able to get a picture of the 5 of us yet (including Londy, our oldest ‘baby’) as it is quite a challenge to get two babies and a dog to cooperate for photo sessions!

We are all doing OK. Sarah has had an “on and off” cold ever since she was three days old. We are praying that it goes away once and for all before her immunizations at the end of the month. Jonathan has started to pick up Albanian rather quickly! As if conversations with a 2 year old weren’t difficult enough, now he is learning a new language quicker than we are!! We spend much of our time focused on language study and practice in these days. It is quite exhausting although we are starting to feel as though we are progressing.. It is an extremely difficult language to learn, especially compared to Spanish. It is an ancient language and has a similar grammatical structure to Russian even although they are completely unrelated languages. However, little by little we are starting to communicate and be understood. We are thankful that we have another 8 months to concentrate on learning. We are starting to enjoy the community and unity that we are experiencing as part of a team of 3 couples here in Tirana (with 7 kids under 7 years old between us). The new year should bring some exciting challenges and new projects that we will be able to slowly start working on as our language abilities improve.