Reminisce
I was looking at old pictures of Violet and wondering what she looked like a year ago. Here are a few to share with you.
What is going on!?!
This is what I was saying to myself this afternoon, “what is going on?”. Here’s what happened… I’m checking out at the nearby grocery store, and the normal things are happening. The cashier asks if I want a bag (because you have to pay for them here) and I say Nyet (no). She continues to ring up my groceries and when she is finished, I see how much I owe her and proceed to pay her. This is when the craziness begins. She rattles off a ton of Russian all of which I do not understand. And it is way more than normal. I just look at her and shrug and think to myself, “I don’t know what you are saying, lady!”. I wasn’t smart enough at the time to say “I don’t understand,” in Russian. She repeats herself, which doesn’t do me any good, so I shrug again. Then she takes a slip of paper and writes down a few words in Russian and then points to the cashier way down at the other end. So I take my groceries, receipt, and the slip of paper and I start walking. At the stores here there are usually security guards walking around, so I decided to give the paper to him. He looks at it, looks at me, then starts walking to where the first cashier lady pointed. He goes to some kind of registration desk and hands the lady there the slip of paper with the Russian writing and my receipt. They read the paper and then hand me this:
A hat!!
I got a free baseball hat with the name of the store on it, Victoria (in red). I guess something I bought meant that I got a hat? Who knows. I was just stunned and kind of laughing and didn’t really know what to do next. Another security guard had walked up, kind of laughing and saying something. So I thought I would offer it to him. I did and he said no, no, no. So I put the hat in my bag and said spasiba (thank you). Then we say bye and I leave kind of wondering what in the world just happened. It was all so very strange.
Little Woman
For those of you who haven’t seen our sweet little one lately, I thought you would enjoy a pic of her. She wandered off into our bedroom and decided to play with some of mommies shoes, so I thought it might be cute to let her try them on.
Growing too fast!
But with these shoes on she will fit it perfectly with the Russian woman here. Most of them wear dressy shoes, it seems like all the time. Now the little girls may have some sort of dressier shoes on, but definitely not heels, that would be interesting!!
It doesn’t seem to faze her that most everyone around her is speaking a different language. We are really excited about her picking it up! Most likely before us. She hasn’t really picked up any new words yet. She still says: Momma, Dadda, Baby, Dog in English. And I think she tries to say “this” but it sounds like “thith”. And the same for “that” ends up being something like “thath”.
She loves pulling all of the band aids out of their package, leaving them all over the floor when she’s done and then wanders off to find something else to pull apart. And lately Micah has been letting her play guitar with him, its really cute. She seems so proud of herself. And one more thing, the light switches here are really low, so she can turn them on and off. Well, most of the switches are outside of the room. So as I’m typing, Violet was switching the light on and off with Micah inside the toilet room. Its so funny, for me anyway, maybe not for Micah, as there are no windows in the toilet room. LOL!!
Well, I hope you got your V fix for the day. Thanks for checking in!
Six Sandowiches 