Tuesday - Day 1 of 10-Day Wait

Here is our final update for today. We had a nice lunch with the American couple and their two new children. This was at the restaurant called The Horseshoe. Natalia was our waitress, and she speaks a little English. She was really kind and helpful. As we walked back to the hotel, the wind really picked up and it started to sprinkle. They say that spring is here.

Later in the afternoon we went to visit “Brother.” There were also two other American couples their visiting children. I wish we could have had more time to talk to them, but we were really focused on “Brother” at the time. They are with a different agency and we don’t think they are staying at this hotel. “Brother” definitely warmed up to us more today. He smiled and laughed a lot more. He liked it when Matt lifted him up and swung him around like an airplane. Maybe “Brother” will take after “T” and like rough-housing with his Daddy and brother T.

As Matt and I commented to each other at dinner tonight, it seemed like Brother’s starting to think, “Hey, these people are fun. I want to spend more time with them.” As we were leaving the orphanage, “Brother” was just in front of us with his caregiver, and he kept looking back at us and waved. It made me sad, because I want him with us. We can’t wait to spring him out of that joint!

Today is Day 1 of the ten day wait, so we will pick him up next Friday. We brought some pants with us today to see if they were the right size, and I guess he is quite short, so we might have to do some safety pins or something to get the pants to stay up on the bottom. If we go another size smaller, they probably won’t fit around the waist. And he is definitely out of diapers - surprising, but true. They have potty time so scheduled in an orphanage, that he may regress a little with that once we have him with us.

This is a picture of our hotel pillow. It’s definitely oversized and weighs a ton! It’s hard to sleep on and would be a killer in a pillow fight.


This is a picture of Matt’s lunch today at the Horseshoe restaurant. They have some chairs that are actually saddles. We sat on plain benches though. The food there is pretty good but a little expensive so we won’t make a habit of going there.


Tonight for dinner we had hotdogs wrapped in some sort of pastry in our room, along with some cheese and bread. Now I think we are going to watch a DVD and relax. Signing off from Russia!