ABOUT MINA:

Mina is a precious little girl recently rescued from an orphanage in Eastern Europe who is now finally home with her forever family! She had been without a mother or father to love her & care for her each day. No one to rock her, kiss her gently or tell her she's loved. She is blessed with an extra chromosome known as Down syndrome, which for her that meant a life of being viewed as worthless in the country she was born into & a life without hope. Because of this her parents gave her up at the age of 6 months when they found out the diagnosis & from there her life progressivly went down hill. We are the Gower family residing in OKC who recently adopted this little angel. She was extremely malnourished and unable to do just about anything when we first met her. She will be 2 in January & is the size of a 3-6 month old weighing 14lbs. She continues to amaze us at how quickly she is progressing with love and nutrition. She has learned to sit up, roll over, feed herself finger foods, hold her own bottle and loves to interact with toys and other children. Her life has changed so much in such a short period of time and will forever be changed! Thank you Lord for putting a burden on our hearts to rescue this little blessing and making her apart of our family!

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Our apartment in Kiev

Here's where we have been staying!



Street sign... I think :)



Street leading to our apartment







Our apartment building

Inside our humble abode:


Living Room




Kitchen







Bathroom






Bedroom with Myla sleeping in a pallet on the floor. We tried her sleeping in bed with us but that didn't work out well at all cause she didn't want to sleep.
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2 comments:

Julia said...

OH MY GOODNESS... WE STAYED THERE!! THAT WAS CONSIDERED OUR LUXURY-SUITE... WE STAYED IN SO MANY LOUSY PLACES... WE ONLY HAD IT FOR A FEW HOURS ONE NIGHT BUT THE A/C WORKED AND WE HADN'T HAD A/C FOR 2 WEEKS... HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU RATE????? THERE IS A CAFE RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FOR INTERNET.... JUST GO IN AND GET A CUP OF TEA....

August 3, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Liz said...

nice apartment!

August 4, 2010 at 1:08 PM

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