The Princess Bride

As a necessary indoctrination into our family, we watched The Princess Bride with Bogomila last night. ;) In order to get Bulgarian subtitles (which, by the way, took us almost an hour to get figured out, but we eventually were able to download and view (the important part!) a mediocre version of subtitles), we had to watch on our little computer screen instead of going up to Grandma's sitting room and using her television. The up side to doing it down here is that we all just pile into and onto the chair-and-a-half that we keep in the dining room. It's a cozy way to watch a movie together, and we're pretty sure Bogomila was able to follow enough of the movie, because she was laughing appropriately at the funny parts.

I had her laughing hard enough during her bath after we were done with my impersonation of Inigo Montoya (Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.) that she had a hard time catching her breath.

There is nothing as good as laughing together to build connections as a family!!

Small steps, often baby steps - I know she's missing her old life, her old friends, but she is quite the girl, bravely taking on this new adventure for better or for worse!