First Full Day

We had a very full day of visits today. We arrived at the baby house about 10:00 am. We took Maksim's toybox and emptied most of the toys so that there would only be a few things to look at. When we first arrived, Maksim gave both Momma and Papa a good hug and kiss. Then he went straight for the toys. When he opened the toolbox he found a yablaka (apple). He ate the entire thing. Core, seeds, peel. He taught us to say Yablaka and we taught him to say apple. He stayed relatively clean. When he was done, Daddy wiped off his hands with a baby wipe. Then he decided it was time for toys. He absolutely loves the big animal book and cell phone. He wouldn't put either down all day.


Luckily on the way to the baby house Simone and Lena taught us a bunch of the animals name in Russian. Momma and Daddy had fun asking Maks "Gudye Sobaka?" (where's the dog?) and Maks would point and say "There it is". "Gudye Champanzee?" At this question, both Daddy and Maks would stick their hands under there arms and say "OH OH OH" like silly little monkeys. Momma captured some great video of that!


Papa and Maksim played superman. The sobaka and Maks both went for the flight. He is such a ham and loves it when we take pictures of him. He doesn't really like looking at them in the camera after they are taken, though. The dragon puppet was also very fun. We weren't sure what he kept calling it. We so wish we spoke more Russian. He has so much to say.

When we arrived in the afternoon, Maks was so excited he put on two pair of shorts. As he ran out to meet us, they both came falling down. We all laughed and Momma got a video of him jumping into Daddy's arms for a hug and a back pat.

We made progress in the afternoon with eye contact. Momma and Maks got to have so much fun bouncing around and hugging and kissing. We were both ecstatic! Maks and Momma are lucky to have someone that loves us. We laughed and laughed and bounced around. And Momma got to look into his big dark green eyes. They are kinda brown, too. It is hard to describe how full of life and beautiful they are.

We ate goldfish and fed each other. Well, Momma and Daddy fed eachother and Maksim. When it was Maksim's turn the goldfish would head toward Daddy but always end up in Maksim's mouth! We played with his machina car and play dough. We learned to cut with some playdough scissors. Afterward Momma thought about the reprocussions of learning to cut with scissors. Oops! But is was very fun and play dough is forgiving. Maks thought that his hands were dirty so he found the baby wipe that Daddy had used earlier and wiped his own hands. We are amazed at his ability to think. Imagine that a real life human being. ; )

All in all, it was a fabulous day and Momma and Daddy are tuckered out! What is going to happen to us when we get to bring him Dom Mali Dom????