Girls and phones...

Thursday, 8.08

It was raining today so we stayed inside with the girls.  It was actually kind of nice to be with them in a confined space.

When we first arrived at their building, we heard a little girl crying and recognized Nastya. She was with a caregiver in a room full of therapy equipment, balls, and mats and stuff.  I think she must have been having some kind of physical therapy.  Whatever it was she did not like it and was very upset.  I took her and held her. We thought we could take her and play then.  But instead the caregiver motioned to me to bring her  back to her room.  She started crying again.  The workers just babbled on and on in Russian like I should know what was going on.  In the end, I guess it was time for her to have a potty break and get new clothes and get her hair fixed.  It took at least 15 minutes to go through all that.  Finally, they let me take her.  She was thrilled to be released and quickly went upstairs with Lee and the boys to play. 

Daniel and Nastya had a fun game of peekaboo through the curtain until Nastya decided it might be fun to bite his cheek!  Ouch!

 

After I got Nastya settled, I went to look for Vika.  She was happy to see me and I immediately picked her up and expected I could leave.  But then, her caregivers started rattling off all kinds of Russian instructions to me as well.  I had no clue what they were saying but it was obvious I could not take her. Then they told her something and took her from me. She started sobbing.  Well, in the end, after they took her clothes off and started running water I figured out it was bath day!  She was not happy but finally settled down while they washed her.  The bathing room is a  tiny little cubicle with a shower like stall and a huge bucket sitting on the floor. Basically, the children sit in the bucket while the workers scrub them clean. So, when she was bathing I went into the other room to be with her groupa.  I know them all well by now.  I looked up bath in my phrase book and we talked about taking a bath.  It was obvious some were happy about bath time and some cried when it was their turn.  As I have mentioned before Samson is in that group so whenever I am with them I take advantage of that and love him up too.  Finally though, Vika was done and clean and after putting the sweetest little scarf on her head, they let her go.  We went upstairs to join the rest and play!

Drinking and talking on the phone at the same time - great multi-tasking!

  After the cheek biting incident and a few tears were shed by both Nastya and Daniel, Vika scooted over to Daniel and briefly put her arm around him.  It was sooo sweet.  She is usually not affectionate towards the boys much at all yet.  I think Daniel thought a cheek bite might be worth it to get a love from Vika!