It's a Snowy Day in Moscow

Jammie Pictures

Haylie LOVES the flipper--she'd never even seen one and seems knew automatically what to do with it. She has to fight over it with Daddy
In the pink marshmallow suit again

We had a pretty quiet day today. Haylie woke us up at 5:30 (she's still on Kemerovo time which is 4 hours ahead of Moscow time.) She seems to be feeling much better today. Still a little fussy, but played for hours by herself. She still isn't eating much though. She LOVES her fruit juice and yogurt and will woof it down, but not much else. Before she got sick she was eating baby food pretty well and would take a bottle of formula at bedtime, but the last 2 days we can't get anything down her except juice and yogurt. It's hilarious actually, she'll see me coming at her with anything else beside the yogurt and will clamp her mouth shut and grab my hand, or the spoon and push it away. And she's a strong little twerp. I've even tried holding her hands down and force it in her mouth and there is just no going there. Strangest thing is, even when she's feeling well, she will not eat anything solid or that has any texture. They told me they were feeding her pureed food in the orphanage, but said also bread & crackers. I don't believe. She just spits out anything that needs to be chewed. And she has a whole mouth full of teeth. There were some little tiny bits of fruit in the yogurt and she keeps the yogurt in and spits out the fruit. We tried Cheerios and Gerber puffs, and she just makes a horrible face and spits it right back out. If you hand it to her, she won't put it in her mouth, just carry it around, all day!! At this rate, it's no wonder she has only gained 1 pound in the past 4 months.



We woke up to light snow flurries, but by early afternoon there was at least 6 inches of snow. I walked out to the grocery and the native Russians were all out just like it was nothing. That much snow that quickly would shut Lexington down for a couple of days. Up on the old Arbat there were litterally throngs of people out walking around, even a street performer dancing in the muck and snow. No big deal.



The big news is that we do indeed get to come home early on Tuesday. All of our paperwork will be done by Monday afternoon. So, we decided to head on home. It's not outrageously expensive to change the tickets and even though the last two nights of the apartment are nonrefundable, we feel like it's worth it to be able to come on home. We are both homesick and really want to come home as soon as possible. Being here really makes us appreciate home and how lucky we are that the Lord has blessed so greatly. We appreciate everyones comments on the blog--makes us feel closer to home and those that we love and is so nice to know people are thinking of us.