Marie Klein Burtt

Jan 06

our little gymnast

By Marie Klein Burtt addysengrace, bucuresti, gimnastica, gymnastics

last year, addy started rythmic gymnastics. she liked it but then we went to the states for our adoption and she missed a large chunk. she came back and was able to jump into a two week intensive gymnastics camp at the beginning of summer. so really, she has only been doing gymnastics regularly since this fall and i think (proud parent aside) she is actually pretty natural! 😉 these are just random pictures of the process and we learn what it means to be a gymnastics family, ha! {side note, the younger one doesn’t want to do gymnastics, she wants to do traditional dance…of course!}

Jan 04

things my children do.

By Marie Klein Burtt mercyadoniyah

Jan 03

these two.

By Marie Klein Burtt addysengrace, bucuresti, Family, mercyadoniyah

nothing to see here. but goofball children.

Dec 09

a month of grammie

By Marie Klein Burtt addysengrace, bucuresti, christian, family, mercyadoniyah, ministry, romania

grammie managed to squeeze in a month away from her home…her home on the market! pops stayed home and held down the fort, so it was truly a joint effort (since this was the first year they wondered if they could come for a visit or not with everything happening). and of course, it was nice and refreshing. all things considered, i didn’t take a whole lot of pictures. this is almost {{all}} of them. but we had a lot of simple, quiet fun.

airport bound!

these two went on a date to see some movie i wasn’t interesting in seeing. 🙂

we also went on a date! come to find out, i took my mom to her first 3-d movie. kind of strange since romania is really into 3-d movies so we have a hard time finding 2-d versions (mercy’s preference).

so many read aloud books were read!

and so many puzzles were done. all of the ones we own actually!

mall excursions:

my mom’s signature. my {beautifully} made bed every single morning!

a grammie and her oldest granddaughter

after church fun

sometimes you go to ikea on your second to last day here. whoops. and sometimes you come home with “whichever lovey you want.” 😉

a last night of cards

last airport selfie. 🙁

Dec 06

mercy’s dorina

By Marie Klein Burtt bucuresti, mercyadoniyah, romania

we have been blessed by an amazing relationship – – last year when mercy started grupa mijlocie (aka k4), she had a teacher (educatoare) and two rotating class aids (ingrijitoare). she bonded from day one with “doamna dorina.” fast forward to this year (grupa mare or k5) and dorina (and her daughter denisa) are now family friends. we love these two! in september, mercy spent the entire day with dorina and denisa at their house. it was such a beautiful thing for christian and i – – it was proof that our little girl is healing and moving forward after losing her brother last may. i took the first four pictures and then dorina and denisa sent me all the other picutres!

Dec 04

toamna

By Marie Klein Burtt addysengrace, bucuresti, christian, family, holidays, mercyadoniyah, ministry, romania, school

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disclaimer: way.too.many.photos. {sorry not sorry!}
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this is where we live:

homework which we might actually enjoy around here, oh my:

alex started at mercy’s school!

chocolate eyes and a tear on her cheek…

goofball three:

and then we got new colleagues!

gaming at the mall:

daddy love:

that time we bought a bag of mixed veggies boasting broccoli and found one entire piece of broccoli, haha!

there is something magical about sleeping babies:

international day of world peace:

oh this child keeps me young:

blowing me a kiss:

oh.my.

best friends:

freshly washed and braided hair:

she makes me food…

summer comes to an end whether or not you want it to…

these two are so much fun:

birthday celebrations (part one):

grandma ducky came to visit:

and auntie deedee!

Dec 03

daily happenings

By Marie Klein Burtt bucuresti, ministry, romania

you probably will notice that these pictures are more or less missing faces – – these are photos of places we visit on a daily basis so we want these kids to remain anonymous. the one thing we don’t want to do is “market” our kids. and yet we know you enjoy seeing pictures of what we actually do. 😉 if you would enjoy seeing more personal pictures of ministry, connect with us here.

Dec 02

school

By Marie Klein Burtt addysengrace, bucuresti, family, mercyadoniyah, school

Dec 01

a bit of camp

By Marie Klein Burtt bucuresti, family, ministry, romania

Nov 30

the rest of summer

By Marie Klein Burtt addysengrace, bucuresti, christian, family, holidays, mercyadoniyah, romania

the last few pictures on my phone of summer…

falling out teeth:

sticky and sweaty naps:

selfies with mama:

meeting new babies:

you’ve played hard when you fall asleep this way:

he has his own bed(s) and his own toy(s) and yet he thinks he is one of the kids:

so blessed to have (re)connected with tim and wendy:

presents from tim and wendy:

“it’s a shoe-tomato!”

our new best friend, orla…can’t wait until we hang out again either in Romania or Ireland!

oh this kid and her humour:

just random metal things she wanted her picture with:

she thinks my bed is her bed…she’s basically right:

playplaces:

sinaia hikes:

lego science from emmy and katie:

snow science from sarah:

if the truth be told, i have probably talked to my sister (almost) every 24 hour period since moving overseas almost five years ago…minus travel days and maybe her honeymoon.

watching the olympics and cheering for way too many countries (my children are very loyal to every country, haha!

summer means impulsive…we love summer!

trying to convince my kids that summer movie nights don’t usually include their robes is impossible:

when did she start making dinner?!

coloring pages from aveline:

summer memory making:

if you put pink (bath approved) dye in the bathtub, your child will probably think that means it is okay to splatter blue (permanent) ink on the walls:

when ninja turtles fight my little ponies:

beautiful care package from my irish twinsie:

when rough days come, give your kids five lei and take them to the store:

care packages from orla!

Sep 19

beautiful romania

By Marie Klein Burtt holidays, romania, travel

Disclaimer – this post has no pictures of people. These were all my pictures of scenery, things that caught my eye, buildings, whatever. Skip, skim or enjoy if you love travel pictures!

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