Poltergeist

We got to see my Maia today! We took the new shoes and they fit great! If anything they are a little big, but I’ll deal with that. She was quite proud of her new kicks and walked and walked and walked (with help) and stomped and stomped and stomped around the room to show them off and try them out! The funny part was, she walked with her toes pointed out (like a ballet dancer!) and also walked very 'heavy' and stomped her foot down. She’s still not used to them, and they are clunkier shoes than I’m sure she’s used to really trying to walk in.

The other difference today was they had her dressed in more spring like clothes! She still had her tights on under the outfit, and two pair of socks on top of that… but she had on short sleeves and a plaid set of overalls that were great. It was just so different to actually see her arms, for example. I loved it! Now, to walk down the hallway to the play room, we still had to put on a cardigan – but the music room was warm enough that we could take that off when we got there. You're getting more and more - here is the sneak peek for today, a moment when she decided to play rather than stomp around:

She ate very little lunch. More than on Wednesday, but still very little overall. I’ll feel better when I know what she is eating 24/7. Perhaps she eats well at the other meals? Perhaps she never eats very well? It will be so much easier to know what she has gotten and what she likes and doesn’t like when I’m with her all the time. When I’m feeding her lunch, I feed her what she’ll eat… but if I knew she didn’t eat any other vegetables the rest of the day, I might push those harder, for example. So, very soon I’ll be able to see what see likes and doesn’t and introduce her to something new as well. I can’t wait!

We came home from lunch before heading out with Masha and Sasha for some more shopping. We had a good time, and went a bit out from the center of town. We went to a new place too with freshly baked bread! Yum! We bought a few things there and headed home for the day about 5 or so.

We had something new for dinner tonight! We bought some Salmon at the Iceberg the other day and mom cooked it, with a side of rice (flavored) and a cucumber. It was so good. We’ve eaten a lot of roaster chicken for the meals we eat here in the apartment, and although we both really enjoy them, I was ready for something different – for at least one meal! It was yummy!

OK, I woke up this morning thinking that we were going to make it through the week without losing any light bulbs…. (really, this is what I was thinking when I woke up.) Well, I thought too soon. The bathroom light (which is one fixture with one bulb, which just blew last week, remember?) was out again today. Now, yesterday it was acting up. We would turn on the switch and it wouldn’t come on right away, but maybe 10 seconds later it would decide to come on. Today, it never decided to come on, but we never heard it blow. Oh well, all we knew was it was totally dark in the bathroom again and we needed a light change, again! I felt so bad…

So, when I told Masha, she laughed and said, we call this a Poltergeist. What do you all call it? We laughed and said, yup, that’s what we call it too! So, literally, she called the maintenance man and told him we had a Poltergeist in the bathroom light. When he came, since he speaks only Russian, and I do not, I opened the door, and let him in. Then it’s like awkward and we were like... what do we say? So I just motioned to the bathroom door and shrugged my shoulders like, I have no idea what’s going on… He just laughed and said, Poltergeist. It was hysterical. Anyway, the good news is, we have light again in the bathroom. The even better news is, it is a MUCH brighter bulb than before! Now, let’s wait and see how long it lasts this week! LOL.

I’m too afraid to try my bedside lamp again. It remains unplugged. I supposed the Poltergeist needed somewhere else to visit, so it’s moved in to the bathroom.

Right now we are watching american cartoons that are dubbed in Russian. You can sort of hear the English in the background, but not really enough to make it easy to understand. It still beats Euro News which I am very tired of. (Mom on the other hand enjoys watching the same stories, in Russian, every 30 minutes.) Again, just time for a change of pace, at least for a little while.

Tomorrow is our bonus day to visit Maia. I’m excited we’ll get to see her again. Of course, Sunday will be a day off, but then back for Monday and Wednesday. The plan is still to get her after lunch on Thursday. I’m getting E.X.C.I.T.E.D. (but it is tainted with slight F.E.A.R. until Tuesday is all over and my last recission day has passed!) Oh - Wednesday will be SO SWEET!

On Sunday, we plan to go out to dinner with Susan who arrived this week to meet her son, and with Catalina and Calin who continue bonding with both of their new children. We are looking forward to getting to know Susan better and really spend some time with them all! We have a few days left to live it up before Maia is with us all the time, and I’m sure we won’t head out for dinner, or anything like that. I’m not complaining, but I’ll go visit with my buddies before I no longer can!