Thursday, November 02, 2006
Day 10 of our 14-day bonding period
It was cold and foggy this morning. We decided to go to walk to the store anyway, and it seemed like there were a lot of leaves falling off the trees today. There were city workers everywhere sweeping the sidewalks with their crude looking brooms, but as fast as they would sweep them up, more leaves would fall. I'm guessing the snow can't be far behind.
Our visit with LG went well. She visited us at the hotel for about two hours, then we went out for pizza. We played her standard favorites including "Go Fish!" It's really fun to listen to her ask for cards or tell us to "Go Fish!" in her accent. She's been really interested in my laptop, so I let her type on it. She would look at the Winnie the Pooh cards that have simple English words on them and then type them. She seemed to really enjoy this.
Our neighbors next door are leaving for Almaty tomorrow with thier 8-month-old son. They didn't want to pack their stockpile of groceries they've accumulated both here and from the U.S., so we took it off of their hands. Some of the stuff we inherited is kid favorites like macaroni and cheese. They even had salsa! Of course, you can't find corn chips around here, but maybe we can pour it on those crab flavored chips?
We hope to be hearing about dates for our pre-court and court dates. LG knows that these dates are coming up soon and she says she wants us to come pick her up as soon as we can. She's been asking a lot of questions about schools in the U.S., what grade she will be in, how the school bus works, etc.
We think we'll be cooking dinner here for LG tomorrow night.
It was cold and foggy this morning. We decided to go to walk to the store anyway, and it seemed like there were a lot of leaves falling off the trees today. There were city workers everywhere sweeping the sidewalks with their crude looking brooms, but as fast as they would sweep them up, more leaves would fall. I'm guessing the snow can't be far behind.
Our visit with LG went well. She visited us at the hotel for about two hours, then we went out for pizza. We played her standard favorites including "Go Fish!" It's really fun to listen to her ask for cards or tell us to "Go Fish!" in her accent. She's been really interested in my laptop, so I let her type on it. She would look at the Winnie the Pooh cards that have simple English words on them and then type them. She seemed to really enjoy this.
Our neighbors next door are leaving for Almaty tomorrow with thier 8-month-old son. They didn't want to pack their stockpile of groceries they've accumulated both here and from the U.S., so we took it off of their hands. Some of the stuff we inherited is kid favorites like macaroni and cheese. They even had salsa! Of course, you can't find corn chips around here, but maybe we can pour it on those crab flavored chips?
We hope to be hearing about dates for our pre-court and court dates. LG knows that these dates are coming up soon and she says she wants us to come pick her up as soon as we can. She's been asking a lot of questions about schools in the U.S., what grade she will be in, how the school bus works, etc.
We think we'll be cooking dinner here for LG tomorrow night.
# posted by Buck and Jo Ann @ 8:52 AM 
