Sept 30 - still going and going.....

Sept 30 – Tues 9:30 pm – it has been cool but comfortable, rained overnight and during some of the day today. Hi everyone – we’re doing well and still having fun with Angelique, but we’re certainly looking forward to coming home! The days are getting repetitive and the poor little one is getting bored with the limited number of things we have for her to do. We’re seeing more and more of her personality as she gets more comfortable with us by the day.

We’ve discovered a few foods that she likes fairly consistently – perogies, eggs, sandwich meat and chicken always work, and she has bread after every meal which is part of her babyhouse routine – we’ve tried putting cheese or meat on the bread to make it more like a sandwich but she doesn’t like it that way. A little bit of butter is OK, or some jam, but eating it dry and walking around with it is still the preference….ummm ok!

Baths are also now a fave thing to do – such a change from last week! Unfortunately we discovered that plugging the drain to fill the bottom of the shower stall causes water to rain down into the apartment below us – oops! So we’re back to letting the water run from the tap and letting her play in that with some toys, cups, plastic bottles etc - she seems to like it just as much ... We’ll try again with a filled tub once we’re home.

A new game also started with us drawing pictures that she points to in a book – she can continue this game for hours, and it’s happened enough now that Paul and I have discovered that neither of us can draw AT ALL! Lol… We’re always trying to think of things to do to occupy her on the plane, and this could be a good one – we’ll pick up lots more paper….

We went to the local zoo a couple of days ago, at Central/ Gorky park. Just like at home, I like the idea of a zoo more than the reality – once I see the animals I just find it sad. They have some interesting ones here like giraffes, rhinos, elephants plus the regular lions, tigers and bears (oh my!). We pointed out the monkeys to Angelique and perhaps because of our game where she calls us ‘monkey’, she thought they were pretty funny. The park is very pretty, lots of open greenspace, beautiful flower gardens and statues.

Paul’s been working on changing our flights – it looks like we can't leave until the 6th, but we're still working on it - stay tuned. We’re looking forward to seeing y’all!

Take care
N&P&A