The longest day Eva! - Moscow Trip 2, LAST DAY!

See! He really is a little Peanut! :-)

It's only 12:20 pm here. Only. This has been the longest day so far! So long that I'm blogging now!! I went to put Andrew down for a nap thinking it was 1:00. No wonder he was fighting me! It was only 11:15. He's been good today (fingers crossed, knock on wood) it just seems like the clock is slllowwwlllyyy ticking!

We've packed the suitcases for the most part and during nap time we'll have to go around and put away the rest of the stuff. We've started packing lots of snacks for him. Speaking of food... this boy can EAT! He didn't have a big breakfast - only a banana and yogurt. For lunch he had 3 blueberry mini muffin tops (while I made the rest of his lunch), I heated up a cheese ravioli gerber graduates (picked out the carrots and corn because he'll only eat the peas and ended up rinsing the ravioli so it had no sauce and called it chicken), crackers, yogurt, a few french fries and a bite of chicken from dad's plate. Gonna have to take out a second mortgage between him and Alex!

We keep questioning if we're feeding him too. He knows when he's done so that doesn't seem to be a problem and so I guess we'll just keep feeding him. It will be easier when we get home and are able to recognize all of the food in the grocery store. :-)

Well, it's now 12:20 am (how freaking weird is that!) and I'm just getting back to this blog! Bags are packed (they are overweight - oh well - what's another couple hundred bucks, right?), carry ons are good to go, clothes are laid out, food is cleaned out and dishes are in the dishwasher. Only thing left to do tomorrow is shower, dress all of us, feed all of us, go in search of a diet coke to help maintain sanity, double check the flat to make sure we didn't leave anything we didn't want to and head on out!

Let me tell you about our night. Unfortunately I have no pictures to show from the big event because I FORGOT THE CARD FOR MY CAMERA! I do have video which I can convert into pics but as you can imagine, no time for that now. Thanks to Dinia, we took Andrew swimming. You may remember me mentioning that he loves the bath and shower, well now he loves the pool. As in, L-O-V-E-S the pool. He walked right down the steps into my arms like he's done it a thousand times. We did ring around the rosey (I used to teach swim lessons and mommy and me classes) and "we all fall down" resulted in a big dunk under the water. He came up coughing the first time but after that loved it! He "swam" to and from Keith, Dinia and I over and over and over again.

When it came time to go he was not ready to get out of the pool but after promising him he could brush his teeth (yes, I'm serious) he willingly exited. Andrew took such a liking to Dinia. Calling her (read: screaming "Toytya Dinia" (Aunt Dinia) over and over and over again!) "Bwat, Toytya Dinia!" (Look, Aunt Dinia!). It was a hoot! He was so upset when we left her and Uncle Ron. We had to explain on the way home that Dinia and Ron had to go night night (as did the goyas (birds) and bakas (dogs) that we saw on our walk home). Pretty much anything he wants to see that is not around has gone night night. :-)

So, we get home and he goes potty and what does he ask for? A bath. He wants to get in the bathtub... in more water. I told him no, not tonight and asked him if he'd like to brush his teeth and yep - that did the trick! Of course after that he wanted to blow dry his already dry hair and I had nothing to negotiate with so we let him throw his temper tantrum until he decided playing with the stacking cups was more fun.

Bedtime was interesting. Poor kid was exhausted - absolutely exhausted yet he fought keeping his eyes open. We noticed he was flailing his legs a lot while we were holding him and just didn't know why - maybe to keep himself awake? I had to hand him over to Keith because I couldn't hold him anymore and Keith finally realized what he was doing... he was "kick, kick, kicking" like in the pool! :-) He makes both of us laugh so hard!

At bedtime now he has a new stall tactic and it works the first 3 times. He puts his head on our shoulders so we can rock him and pat his back. He waits a few minutes and then he sits up, grabs our faces and kisses us (whoever is hold him) 4 times. He then switches his head to the other shoulder, waits a minute, sits up and kisses 2 times. And on and on... finally we have to tell him no more kisses... night night time! Night night just like the goyas, bakas and Aunt Dinia.

Alright - no more procrastinating bedtime... tomorrow is going to be a LONG day and we hope and pray it will be a good long day. Then reality hits. :-) Next post will be from our house! Wooohooo!

Here are some pictures to last you a day or two!

Our trip to the zoo!

Superman!

Hey little lady! Come here often?

I'm beaooootiful!

Nothing says "all boy" like Ses*me Stree pants, mom's head band and underwear as a shirt!

Little Miss Sunshine and the Little Peanut (P.S. I think all of the Moscow peeps were looking at me like I was nuts - sweats in public, flip flops (not heels) and no makeup. GASP!)