First Car Ride & Bonding with Papa

Today we took Andrew to get his picture taken for his passport along with some other adoptive families. It was interesting holding Andrew in the backseat of a car without strapping into a carseat. With the bumpy rodes bouncing us around I felt like I was Andrew's carseat strapping him down. Of course he wasn't happy sitting still so I kept changing his position to keep him quite. He was finally happy when he was grabbing and tickling Daddy's neck from behind through the bottom space in the head rest from the front seat. Once he tickled Robert's neck, Andrew would lean over to look at Robert's reaction when Robert would turn around and smile at him. In return Andrew grinned happily that he made Papa laugh. Andrew kept doing that in the car to keep himself occupied while I held him.



We all then came back to the orphanage to play with our children until 6:00pm. Andrew loved his new rider motercycle toy that we got for him. One where you sit on it and push with your feet to make it go. At first he was more interested in pulling the stickers off of it than riding on it. (Andrew likes to pull labels off of our bottles). He does better going backwards on it than forwards or he likes to push it as he holds onto it. It gives him balance as he pushes it around. Andrew was also playing with another toy where you put the shapes in the correct holes. He was starting to figure it out with the help of Papa today.



This morning, we were walking Andrew around to get him some exercise and after about 10 minutes of walking he plopped himself down on the blacktop and wouldn't stand when I helped him up. I told Robert that he was probably tired and that he needed a break. Well, Robert picked him up and Andrew started to get sleepy. So I held him and he slept for about an hour on my shoulder. He's been quite the active boy the past couple of days. He finally needed a rest.



Another funny story real quick I wanted to share was when we were going back to our hotel one night we were waiting for the elevator to open when this stray cat that hangs out in the hotel came over to the same elevator to wait with us. When the elevator doors opened the cat immediately walked into the elevator before us and Robert, Alla and I all looked at each other and laughed. We joined the cat into the elevator and Robert pushed floor number 2 and our floor number 6. If anyone knows Robert, knows that he is not too fond of cats since he is allergic to them. He pushed floor number 2 so the cat would get off on that floor instead of our floor and sure enough when the doors opened the cat got off and said goodnight. We all had a good laugh over that one. Too funny.