After we said our hellos, it was off to the races. Alina had tons of energy and was crawling everywhere. She played with her toys some, but seemed to be far more interested in investigating every corner of the music room. It wasn’t even an hour in and she had worn us out!
Today she decided to explore everything with her tongue too. On past visits, she’s licked most of her toys and shown that she likes to put things in her mouth. Today she did that, but she stuck her tongue out a lot of times too. She seemed to be in a really good mood and had fun bouncing and crawling all over the room.
We didn’t have a translator today, as both Aima and Zema are out of town. It wasn’t a big deal until the psychologist came into the room to ask the Robeys and us questions about how thing were going. Our Russian wasn’t up to understanding much less answering her questions. Wayne called Aima on the phone, and she spoke with the psychologist for a bit. At the end, we gathered that she would be back later when Zema was back.
Lunch today was at Medved again. The food there is really good. We’ll post more details in the food blog. (Whenever that happens…) After that, we went to Tsum again. We bought more souvenirs for family members - we’re almost done there. We’ll spend the rest of the afternoon relaxing. It was nice to get back into our routine again today, but the little one wore us out!
Yesterday afternoon we met the Spanish couple in the room across the hall from us, Vicente and Eva; we had lunch with them and the Robeys. They are here to adopt as well. On Thursday they met their daughter, a 10-month-old girl who they will name Maria. They speak English pretty well, but it’s challenging for them because the translators all translate from Russian to English. They’re excited and we are excited for them too.
End of the visit... getting tired.
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