Day 11: The Steppes are Alive (la la la) With the Sound of Music

What a day! We measure progress with bonding and general learning in tiny increments. Cumulatively, they are quite impressive to us for two little boys who have lived in an orphanage since 6 days old and 6 months old. Today was a day of song. First, Seri began singing with Sue while rocking on the rocking horse. It was a nonsense tune that Sue had made up but he seemed to connect with it. Before we knew it, Older Brother joined in and was perfectly on key! That lasted for at least five to 10 minutes. Seri's favorite doctor, Lubov, came through and couldn't believe that Seri was singing. She gave us a thumbs up so that could only mean good things for his development. Seri is vocalizing more and more. He also used the baby puppets (bunny and duck) to dance and sing with them on the table. He is showing a creative, playful side also. He continues to go back to his classroom daily with front teeth any color of the rainbow. He's darn quick with those fat crayons. We keep picking up 1/2 inch points and with the slight of hand, they disappear into pockets. Each night we empty out the paper scraps, crayon tips, and assorted detritus of the day.
Lonya is a delight. Today brought trauma. When playing with Sue at the boot closet, he jumped up and came down with his front teeth biting into the particle board (leaving tooth marks). At the same time, he bit his lip and opened it up inside. Instantly, he went to Mama Candace for comfort. It was touching to see him relax and "heal" with the closeness and rocking in her arms. After big tears, he was ready to face that mean cabinet again. He also mimicked the words "nose", "dog" (useful in a 2 sabaca household) and others. He's decided that Sue is safe now but keeps a close eye on her because she reaches out and tickles him. But she did get a "paka paka", "bye bye", kiss on the cheek, and even a blown kiss from him today. I guess that she's in the club now. Candace has gotten those all along.
Lunch was at Anita's and Joyce's apartment which is much nicer than our own. It is centrally located to town, has a few extra rooms and more square footage, and isn't nearly as dreary. We wanted to move instantly but it's probably not in the cards.
The sneg (snow) is at least 6 inches today. It makes trudging along a bit more difficult.
Love to our family and friends back Home...
2 Comments:
Hey Candace: I'm finally getting to reading your blog--it's hard last month for us--my mom died unexpectedly. Anyway, I am so glad to read of all your progress in becoming a mom. It sounds like things are humming along as they should and both boys are bonding well. They are sure cute little guys. Take care and we are definitely thinking of you.
Leslie (Sue, Ben, Nevin and all the fur kids).
Hi Candace, I guess you don't get to avoid the snow after all. I didn't get to read yesterday's message from you until tonight because I stayed up until 3:30 a.m. this morning creating an arrangement of "Buffalo Gals" for my All City Orchestra Spring Festival meeting today. I had sent out a bossy email telling all involved to be sure they came prepared with music they wanted to play --- so, since I opened my big mouth, I had to go prepared too :-) Didn't know I wanted to do Buffalo Gals until last night after school. It took me all night to enter parts for High School (fancy break), Middle School (rhythmically challenging melody), and Elementary (easy melody). Each part also had a "back-up" that varied in difficulty or ease. I needed violin/viola/cello/bass for all levels so it was a time consuming project. Early to bed for me tonight :-)
Did you know that Monday's message from you was cut short at the end -- so I don't know what happens when Sergy is up-side down :-) I hope it's that he gets put right side up again :-)
Since your friend Leslie mentioned that her Mother passed away, I should let you know that Betty too lost her Mom last Friday morning. I called her last night and she is very sad but doing OK. She is having a private family funeral in CleElum (I just realized I don't know how to spell Clewhatever). Some of Betty's family is there helping her sort through things -- you know, those busy tasks that won't allow you to completely grieve until they are all taken care of. She did have some good news though -- her daughter Heather is finally engaged to her boyfriend. Everyone's happy about that.
Well, don't freeze in that coooooooold weather. The sun was out here today -- not to make you jealous or anything like that :-) Hang in there, Nancy
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