Day 10 - Our First Glimpse

This is going to be a short post because it was a short visit. We were able to see our little girl's first miniature tantrums. One was because we had to take colored pencils away so she would not poke her eye out and the second was because the director came in and she thought it was lunch time, so she started screaming when she was put back down. Thankfully we were able to calm her down quite quickly. The second one she allowed me to just hold and rock her while she layed her head on my shoulder. I loved this! I am actually happy that we are seeing this behavior because it allows me to be a little bit more of a mom for her rather than just a play date. These two episodes maybe took up 5 minutes of our visit.

The rest of the time she was her normal happy, fun self. When we were putting the lotion on her arms she grabbed Chris's hand and started rubbing lotion on it. I guess she thought her daddy needed some moisture too! She is still being more and more verbal everday. Today she repeated Kaka, which means yucky in russian. Also she sounded like she kitty after we pointed one out in her book. I really hate that we have our visit right before lunch. No matter how much she likes us, we will never be as important as food! We can always tell when she is getting hungry because she starts packing up all of her toys.

So we did try Russian pizza last night. Instead of going through all of the trouble of getting the girl to get out an English menu we decided to just order from a picture. It looked amazing. It had cheese, bell pepper and what looked like beef on it. Boy were we wrong. It was FISH and not just any fish, the strongest and fishiest fish I have ever tried. It was so bad that neither of us could stomach it. (KAKA!) So we came back to the room and ordered french fries, banana pancakes and ice cream. We need comfort food after being tramatized!