Day 4 - Medical Review
We began our day reviewing LMS's medical history with the staff doctor at the baby house. Overall, she is in wonderful health and very much developing for a child typical of her age. We followed with our regular scheduled visit with LMS, who we shall now refer to as Polly. Polly was quiet again today. Since she has been more comfortable with Laura than Brett we decided to let Brett dominate time with her today in hopes of gaining more points. We think it worked. He started the visit by placing Polly on his lap and rubbing her back. He decided she could stay there as long as she pleased, which lasted for 30-45 minutes! The Pappa / Polly snuggle time ended when one of the caretakers entered the room to invite Polly and us to join the other kids in her group for play out in the snow. We all bundled up, went outside and laughed, played, threw snowballs with the other children and had a wonderful time. We hope to participate in more outdoor time as this was a great place for Polly to let loose and really be herself.
After our visit to the baby house we joined our coordinator for lunch again. As usual, the food was delicious. Each of us had different types of soup and salad. Water with "gas" is now usually our beverage of choice (unless it's dinner, then we splurge for a brew).
After lunch, we strolled downtown Kostanai just taking in the sights. We hope to make such walks on a daily basis. Our walk took us all the way to the river which is currently frozen solid! We saw a number of ice fishing taking place on the lake. Laura took time out to make a snow angel in the snow which she had promised Luke she would do. Sure wish he were here as well. We hope to bring both children back one day. Perhaps in the summer which we would imagine is beautiful.
As we completed our stroll we were fortunate to hear the call to prayer from the Mosque. The call is a man's voice singing a beautiful tune which can be heard for blocks.
The snow has been falling gently all day. This made our walk and our day extra special.
After lunch, we strolled downtown Kostanai just taking in the sights. We hope to make such walks on a daily basis. Our walk took us all the way to the river which is currently frozen solid! We saw a number of ice fishing taking place on the lake. Laura took time out to make a snow angel in the snow which she had promised Luke she would do. Sure wish he were here as well. We hope to bring both children back one day. Perhaps in the summer which we would imagine is beautiful.As we completed our stroll we were fortunate to hear the call to prayer from the Mosque. The call is a man's voice singing a beautiful tune which can be heard for blocks.
The snow has been falling gently all day. This made our walk and our day extra special.
posted by watrous2kaz @ 9:40 AM
1 Comments:
Glad to hear things are going well. We were in Kostanai in the summer so it's nice to hear what the town is like in the winter. If you get a chance can you please tell Olesya and Dr. Irina we said hello and that Molly and Aidan are terrific. Thanks! Keep warm.
Alli Donohoe
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