Saturday, December 6, 2008

His first english word...and some video

We heard him say his first english word yesterday! We are now on a constant mission to teach him English. So we were continually saying "fish" to him as he played with his fish puzzle thing (in the video below). He whispers almost everything but, I heard him say FISH!! :) It might have been more like "ish" .. but it was his first English word. He also knows what a nose is, but its very close to the Russian word "nosek". I think he also knows "eyes" but hasn't said it yet. If Barbara or I say "eyes" he pokes his finger in our eye, we have Barbara to thank for that one. So you can blame her if any of you suffer the same fate :).
Well I don't really have too much to say about yesterday mainly because we only got to see Malachi in the morning, because of the weekend I guess. Our driver just told us that the director of the baby house said we could only come 1 time on the weekend. Today was the first time we brought him back into his class before he was done playing with us. Barbara was playing with him and I was sitting on the other side just watching and he started packing stuff up. I said "looks like he is packing us up and telling us to go", but then he got distracted by his fish puzzle again, and then he peed. We didnt have anything to clean him up with or any clean clothes, so we had to bring him back to his group. That was a fun experience, and I can't wait for more, haha. I am glad I am being eased into it and that we can just have someone else deal with that part, for now.
After the baby house we went back to the hotel and sat around some more, read books, played word games in the books we brough, and I watched Shawshank Redemption on my portable dvd player :).

Enjoy the videos.

<--- this one's for Ty.

3 comments:

  1. Lovely videos. He looks like he's growing in being comfortable with y'all. What a gift you will be to each other. The adult Russian term for form nose is nos with a hard 'o' and with the 's' sounding like an 's' vs. in English where it sounds like a 'z'. The noseek that you're hearing is a cutsifying of the term that's done for kids.

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  2. i want to see more.he's so cute. love mel

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  3. Dude we need him back here before the Christmas craft night...we have way too many chairs to stack and unstack on our own...hurry...
    We love you guys...can't wait to see Malachi in person.
    Praying for you to get home soon,
    The VanHorns

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