Malachi's first car ride with us.

Yesterday (Our Tuesday Dec 9th) was pretty exciting, we took Malachi to go get his picture take for his passport. I guess the baby house has a couple of nice white shirts for such occasions and they dressed him in one. He looked like a little man, it was awesome. If course in Russian fashion they also put a sweater on top of that and then a jacket on that, I would have been dying, but hes used to it. What is he going to do when we go outside back home in Dec in shorts? Most of the ride he sat there kind of shocked by what was going on. I wondered what was going trough his little head. I wondered if he was thinking he just left the baby house forever. He did really good at the photo place, he sat there nicely and the picture was very cute, but I didn't get a copy of it. I did get a couple of pictures of him in the shirt though :).

When we got back to the baby house his group was playing outside, so we let him go play outside and I got some more pictures of his group. He was really playing in the snow, he seemed like he was having a lot of fun. I think he will like playing in sand at the beach better then snow all bundled up in Siberia :). We took him back inside and took off several layers of clothes and then played with him for a little while.
After we left the baby house we went to the store again. This is the store that feels more like home, its a big supermarket and kinda reminds me of Whole foods, seems like a lot of fresh stuff. I just had a thought, I wonder if the have any food that they can say has "never been frozen" ...hmm. I have spent the last few days telling Barbara all the places I have been craving food from. Do you realized how good Big Wok sounds right now, or Cheesecake Factory, or even.... McDonald's. I would do anything for a Rinaldi's spicy steak sandwich right about now. Ok, I better stop that, drool and keyboards don't mix well. At the store we bought a rotisserie chicken and some bread to make, well rotisserie chicken sandwiches. They were pretty good, but there was just something missing, like mustard or something. I kinda took a step back from the situation yesterday and looked at the fact that we are sitting in a hotel room, in Siberia, tearing apart a chicken and eating it, just another surreal picture for you. We are hoping that yesterdays shopping trip is our last one before we leave, but we'll see.
Our evening visit with Malachi started off rough. We got to the baby house and heard a familiar sound, it sounded like someone was playing tetris upstairs. I really like tetris, so we headed upstairs. It was actually just Malachi's group in music class. Malachi wasn't in the group so we headed back to his room to pick him up. He was not happy to see us :( but mainly because he had his mind set on music class and when he has his mind set on something there's no making him happy unless he gets it. We watched him in music class for a little while and then they all went back to go potty and then he came back out with this little hippo cart thing that he was pushing. After he got tired of pushing it around he used it as a ride on car for basically the rest of the time we were there. Anywhere he went we was on that thing. It was kinda silly, but that's what he needed/wanted at that point. We took him back to his room and said our "paca paca's" (bye bye in Russian) and then headed home for the night, had another chicken sandwich and then finished the day at about 7pm...