Today was our first full day with all four children and now tonight I have a headache and want to go to bed!!! So this will be short with no pictures!
Actually it was a wonderful day, but trying to pay and give attention to four chatterboxes is very difficult. I got my first dose of what it will be like in another month. I am glad I have a month to prepare!
We were able to have the girls come to Petropavlovsk because we needed to get their passport pictures. The orphanage was kind enough to let us have them the whole day. After the pictures I took them shopping to get an outfit and tennis shoes. The definately have a certain flare as Bev described in her comment. They love bright colors!!! Which at one point I thought they would love my favorite bright color, lime green, but guess what?? That is the only bright color they don't like! But we finally settled on a hot pink skirt for Nastya and hot pink sweat pants for Maria. At first they had the same top except Nastya's was in white and Maria's was in pink, but I decided that Maria does not look very good in pink, so we changed it to white. (It just doesn't go with her hair color and complexion!) They were so excited to pick out their own clothes, I think it was the first time they have ever done that. We bought little purses, and pens and pads of paper to put in the purses. It didn't take them long to start asking for everything, and it didn't take long for us to start saying "Nyet!" which means "No."
After shopping we came back to the apartment and Larry made lunch. He made french fries which the girls loved, but they didn't like Ranch dressing or fry sauce! We played around here for awhile, they drew, watched Tom & Jerry (their favorite), played the gameboys, and then we left for the park!
The park was so much fun. It was the first time these girls have ever ridden any kind of ride. They loved it. One of the rides are these little quads, that are real quads but miniature sized. We let Maria and Caleb ride them and told Maria that her Aunt Kim and Aunt Tammy owned big ones of these and we go riding a lot! She was so excited and said that was her favorite thing of the whole day!!! We had a lot of fun riding all the rides. The kids got along so well!!!!! Caleb and Maria are really hitting it off and were together all day. They held hands as they walked and talked each other into certain rides. They did have their first fight on the bumper cars when they fought over who got to drive. Maria won! Even Nathanael started loosening up today and interacting more with the girls. He and Anastacia would just jabber with each other on the rides, and neither knew what the other was saying, it was quite entertaining to watch.
Larry wanted me to include that his favorite attraction at the park is watching the security guards walk around with their machine guns in hand! Not what you would find at Disneyland.
After the park we came back to the apartment and played with the kids. The girls wanted to do my hair and put make-up on me. Even Caleb got into the act. They gave me a great hairdo, simliar to the ones they did themselves in previous pictures! I curled their hair as well, and put makeup on them. It was fun!!!
But the highlight of the day for us was when we knelt to pray before the girls were to go back, Maria really wanted to say the prayer. (As I said before we seem to be able to communicate pretty well!) Masha wasn't here to translate for us, so we have no idea what she said, but Maria did say the prayer and it was wonderful. I was so proud of her. Larry said that near the end of the prayer she stop, so he opened his eyes, she looked at me and I guess she was done, but because I didn't respond, she bowed her head again and said "Amen". She is really a quick learner.
We are going back in the morning to visit at the orphanage! I can't believe we have less than a week left here in Petropavlovsk. We love this place and in some ways we don't want to go home! There is a certain peace we feel here that will be hard to leave.
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