Day 10 of visitation is now complete. Somehow making it to the double digits seems like progress! We had an invitation to come to the baby house this morning to visit Dr. Rimma and show off pictures of Noah. It turned into a two-hour party complete with champagne toasts, tea and my favorite local cookies. Keith got lots of hugs and kisses from her. And I got my fair share as well. She loved seeing how happy Noah is and how much he has grown. We were allowed to go upstairs and visit the babies and see the caretakers. The caretakers knew us right away and had to see pictures of Alisher. Dr. Rimma took us to see the music room where we spent most of our visitation time with Noah. It now has a model yurt, a stage with flowing pink curtains, and new festive curtains on the windows. The piano is gone, but the boombox remains. John, the red chairs are all gone. Do you suppose someone could have been too rough on them!
It turned rainy in the afternoon so we had an indoor visit with the children. Zarina came in first and enjoyed a few minutes of lap time alone with Mama. We worked a jigsaw puzzle and watched a slide show of our recent photos put to music. The children do love watching themselves. Valentina was back with us today and the girls were very happy with that. They are not as comfortable with the guy translator. The snack of the day was a box of Twixels, which are really skinny Twix bars. We were just getting into a game of Uno when the caretaker came back for the children. Some days the time really flies. Rinat reminded us before we left that he surely did like those doughnuts yesterday. I think that is as close as he has gotten to actually asking us for something. Maybe we can find some more tomorrow morning. This place could use a Krispy Kreme!
