Friday, March 30, 2007

Well today is our last visit to the Baby Home, tomorrow is the big day when we simply go there to pick Sam up. Again we arrived at around 9:15am. Sam was very sociable and playful with us for the first hour or so. He even came out of his room and did not even cry or turn away, simply going right into Daddy's arms. This was a first.

We played the nose / noice game, and "read" his Alphabet book, with him saying a few of the words. He now actually thinks a Dog is a Woof. When he points to the picture of the Dog, he simply says "Woof".

Around 10:30, Sam became very cranky again, and even started to have temper tantrums on the floor. We gave him some water to help cool him down (he gets a little overheated when he throws a tantrum). We think he may still need a short (30 - 45 minute) morning nap. One other possibility, that we did not think of at the time, was that he was indicating that he had to go potty. When we took him to his room at 11:15am, the caretaker took him right to the potty room. Perhaps that was what he was trying to "say" to us.

We are still a little frustrated with the fact that his caregivers are the ones that make the decisions of what to do and when, and even though he is legally our son, we can not control any of his activities. Once again today we were "scolded" by one of the caregivers for feeding him, since they want him to eat the lunch that he is served, not our food. The language barrier is also difficult, since whenever he hears Russian, he stops listening and communicating with us. English is still very foriegn to him.

When we left the Baby Home we once again drove into a ton of traffic. This delay may throw a wrench into our plans for the day, since we were hoping to go to the Kremlin and Armory to be tourists, but we may just have to buy postcards instead, since we still have to go to the supermarket to get food for Sam to eat tomorrow, and we have to "baby proof" the hotel room a little more (if you can "baby proof" a Hotel room).

We did not take to many pictures today, between his mood, our simple desire to hold and tickle him, and his wanting to play with the camera vs. be in front of it, so you will have to wait another day for more pictures.