Today we called the kids at our usual time of 9am and the phone rang with no answer at the children’s home. It’s a little frustrating because we told the kids we would be calling at that time but for whatever reason no one answered. We have to remember that they are 11-years old and probably don’t understand how big a deal it is for us to call from the U.S. to Latvia. We were happy when we called back about 45 mins. later and got Kristine on the phone. We had the usual conversation about the weather (it wasn’t raining this time). Once again, Kristine said she doesn’t like school. We asked her what she was doing today and she just said “nothing.” So we said, “you just sit and do nothing all day?” She laughed and said, “NOOOOO”. She finally admitted to playing a little bit. There was too much giggling and commotion going on in the background for them to be doing nothing. Her friend Agnese was with her again. I guess the highlight of the call for Kristine was when Maverick (our cat) got on the phone and said "Sveiki" ("hello" in Latvian) to her. Okay, I'll confess that Maverick got a little squeeze from Robert before he let out his meow greeting (no, he didn't squeeze him hard, so don't write us angry letters). LOL! Kristine thought it was hilarious. She laughed and laughed and Rob and I did too!!
We asked Kristine where Olegs was and she said he was playing football. We told her to go get him and could hear her screaming for him as she went down the hallway. The girl has got healthy lungs for sure. LOL! She came back a few seconds later and said Olegs couldn’t come to the phone. We talked to Kristine a little more and she asked us if we wanted to talk to Agnese. So we talked to Agnese for a few minutes and asked her a few things. She answered “yes” to everything so we don’t know if she understood what we were saying or not. We can’t wait to meet her. She sounds like such a good kid too.
Before we signed off, we asked Kristine to go try to get Olegs again. She again went screaming for him down the hallway and came back and said he didn’t want to talk to us. Talk about a blow to the heart. Our boy doesn’t want to talk to us? Obviously, we can’t grill Kristine with questions so we just told her to tell him we love him and miss him and we’ll call him later. She said “okay” and we signed off. It’s hard not to let your mind race with all the possible reasons he might not want to talk to us…Was he mad for some reason? Was he upset that we have to adopt Kristine first and him later? Is he not getting the letters we've sent him but watching Kristine get her letters? My mind was racing because we didn’t get to talk to Olegs last week either because he was away on an outing. Rob reminded me that Olegs was with “the fellas” playing football today and he probably didn’t want to break away if they were having a good game. He probably didn’t want to ruin his cool image. One thing is certain, we’ll be calling again tomorrow and every day after that until we get him on the phone!
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