Michael & Liz are Bloggable

Well today Liz worked from home to be with Liza. I would say it went really really well. I think partly because Liza slept until 10AM. She was exhausted from her traveling yesterday so it's understandable. We then met the interpreter for lunch at 11:30 and got a ton of questions answered. Here were some questions and in blue is the answers:

Did you sleep well last night? Is there anything you need?
Very well and no

What was she trying to tell us last night about Minsk in the book?
The picture in her book is where her Mom works. It is a factory in Minsk.

Did you make any friends on the flight that you'd like to hang out with? We might be able to arrange that.
She made very close friends with a 9 year old girl named Mariya. They talked and played the ENTIRE time. We are going to give Mariya's parents a call and they can play a few times a week.

Did you get our letter and pictures we sent you? Did you like them? We hope it helped make the trip easier and you were less nervous.
She knew nothing of our pictures and our letter. We showed her the stickers we sent in the package and she hadn't seen them before, but she LOVES them. Big fan of stickers.

what is your favorite color?
blue, yellow, and rose (pink)

what are your favorite foods?
How untypical of a child is this answer(in order of exactly what she named): banana, watermelon, oranges (but she isn't allow to have any) vegetables, pasta, chicken (pork and beef also), apples. she doesn't like soda or candy. she loves hot tea.

what is your family situation like at your home?
Her Mom and Dad got divorced when she was really little. She lives only with her mom and has no siblings. She visits her "granny" in the "village" a lot. Her Dad comes by and takes her out occassionally.

what are your hobbies, what do you enjoy doing?
play-doh, drawing, reading

is there something you really want to do while you are here? Anything you've heard about that you are excited about?
she wants to see the ocean, she wants to go to all kinds of parks (both amusement and flower gardens)

So to clarify one of the things above. Her stomach cannot handle really sweet things like sugar. So that is why she cannot have oranges. She is absolutely not allowed to have orange juice at all but she is allowed to have an orange "occasionally".

So in the afternoon Liza took some crayons and drew lots of pictures and she watched Beauty and the Beast. When I came home, she was in her room playing with some Barbies we got her. And right now, she and Liz are making origami shapes.

Tonight is exciting for me though. Liz is going to choir so Liza and I are spending the evening together. This is really weird to say, but we are going shopping at Target and I am very excited about it. We are getting coloring books, socks, play-doh, sunglasses, pretty hairbands, hot tea, and a few other things.

We won't be updating every single day, but we thought since it was early on in the adventures of taking care of her, we'd post more often.