The Cuteness named Dinara

Sorry for yesterdays short post. The internet connection was particularily short and I was on a time limit. I was dropped at the internet cafe while Andrew went with our clean laundry to the hotel to change. He wanted to get a little dressed up for supper and since I was wearing a new blouse that I had bought we thought this would be the best plan. It was so hot here yesterday...I swear it was 25 degrees C at least...and all my T-shirts were getting cleaned. I decided to borrow one of Andrew's and it was black and waffle knit. I was roasting consequently. I decided that during lunch I was going to buy something else. Now one problem we are having here is that our new translator isn't nearly as good as our old one. So most of the time we don't ask for her help. Andrew can speak broken Russian quite well...enough for us to get by at least. Everyone we meet smiles when he tries to speak and is encouraging. Anyway I bought a nice black polyester sleeveless shirt for around $40. It was the only one I could find that wasn't a belly shirt on me (and yes it is because of how tall I am versus all the wee people here).

Today's visit went well. She came in wearing a darling outfit today. Normally the outfits they put her in are special (short bus and hockey pads special) but today's was actually very cute. We changed her...which is increasing in difficulty as she likes to take her diaper away in the middle of the change...and then started a new game Mommy invented. For a while we have been using toy blocks to block her mouth and make broken sounds come out. Well today Mommy decided to use Dinara's hand to do the same. She was riveted. She loved that game and in the middle of the session she decided instead of this to try and eat Mommy's face. It made me laugh so hard (and Andrew and our translator) that I was crying. She is such a smart little bug as Andrew would say.

We went back to the Britainnica last night for supper, and boy was it a little more costly then our previous lunch there. Andrew had a salmon fillet with a cream caviar sauce and I had the chicken curry again. We both ordered the broccoli with butter sausce as we haven't been able to have too many veggies since coming here. The broccoli was mushy but tasted like heaven. I never thought British food would end up a real comfort food. We also had a lot of beer (Anddrew had 3 pints and I had 2) Getting this out of our system now as soon this will not be allowed as often.

Not much else to report other then that. We are getting more excited as soon our Dinara will legally be ours forever. Her provisionary visa has been issued so no worries there. Well bye bye for now. I'm hungry and need food. Miss you all. Lots of love.