Head, shoulders, sneeze and toes

It’s the newest song that the girls have learned in school. They touch a part of their body and say the name. They start at the head, go to the shoulders, then the knees and then the toes. They do it twice, than they name the features on their head, ears, eyes, mouth and repeat the shoulders and so forth.
In their version, it comes out as head, shoulders, sneeze and toes and on their head they have a mouse. I will try to post a video of it.
Their English is coming along as you might have guessed. At the dinner table one night Elena looks at Teri and says “What’s the matter?” which comes out as whatsa matter? It’s all very interesting watching the changes day by day.
The JCC after school care didn’t work out so we are trying it with Teri’s father and Amanda. The first week went pretty good. There was a little hitting by Nastia, where Donald was talking to her and I guess she was playing her Nintendo and he wanted her attention so she hit him. The second hitting she said she did not do, but I was told she hit Tony the same day. Nastia has gotten into trouble at school for biting and scratching two different children. I hope we are not witnessing a pattern.
We went to the eye doctors last week. We knew that the girls had eye sight problems and the eye doctor confirmed it. Both girls are extremely near sighted. Nastia’s vision was corrected to 20-80 and Elena’s was corrected to 20-60. She said that was the best she could do. I think the way the girls took the eye exam made it difficult to go further. Nastia kept switching from her right eye to her left eye and I think they kept moving away from the eye thing they put on your eyes to determine what strength glasses you need. Both kept looking over their shoulder to see the correct answer to the question which way the letter is facing. They didn’t want to give a wrong answer. The Russian speaking assistant told them there was no wrong answer. Still it was a test they wanted to do well in.
The Nintendo game again came in handy to keep them occupied while the other was being examined.
Everybody is being so nice to us. I have had people offer clothes for the girls. Every relative we have has gone out and purchased clothes. Teri and I are very touched by all the kindness of everyone. Even the eye doctor gave us a break on the cost of the glasses. We need a social security number for the girls before we can put them on insurance, but the school requires doctor visits, eye doctor visits and dentist visits (coming on Sunday the 25th at 10:30) within a certain number of days of admission to school, so all these doctor visits are coming out of our pocket. The eye doctor cut the exam price from 110.00 to 85.00 each and the glasses were cut in price too. The total bill was 320.00. I’ve spent that and more for glasses for myself. Teri and I were very pleased and we are thinking of moving our eye business totally to them. The only problem is Teri has been with Spring Valley Optical for just about her entire life and I’ve been going to them for the last fifteen years. Also the new place is in Englewood NJ.