I had to go back to work Thursday so the kids got to have a play day that day with one of the other host families and their children. Yesterday, Robert took Olegs for a haircut at the barber shop where the men go. I couldn't help myself and had to take a picture to document his first American haircut. He was totally embarrassed but too bad. He wouldn't let us take him for a haircut when he was here last summer.
After lunch, both Olegs and Kristine came back to my work to see where Cartoon Network is broadcast from. We got the grand tour of the various broadcast boothes for Cartoon Network among other stations. At the end, they got a bunch of cool cartoon souveniers to take home. Olegs kept asking about Sponge Bob and I had to remind him that he's from Nickelodeon which is a bad word around the Cartoon Network crew (their biggest competitor). HA!
After work, I took Kristine to get her hair cut. Last summer she got it cut & styled at a nice high end salon. This time it was Fantastic Sams, baby. This is probably where she'll be going when she's here permanently. I honestly didn't know what to expect but the stylist did a fantastic job. Kristine wanted a good bit cut off and she got some layers added. She got the most adorable cut and style for $20. We told her she looked like a movie star so she was happy.
Today was the goodbye party for all of the host families. It was also a birthday party for Liza, another hosted child, whose birthday is on Jan. 9th. I can't even remember the last time I was in a skating rink but I actually got out there and skated too. Poor Robert was stuck at work so I was solo with the kids on this outing. At first, I was going to ask for the skates with four wheels but caved to peer pressure and got the inline ones. Kristine was sweet and held my hand to help me until I got enough momentum going to move under my own power. Olegs was long gone and had hooked up with his friend Dima so he was playing cool and ignoring me by that time. Kristine soon followed and dropped me like a hot potato once she saw some friends she wanted to go hang out with. Skating was lots of fun until it came time to stop. When I used to skate on trails in Florida, I was able to hop into the grass to stop. I never mastered the brake thing. Here I found the padded wall and just ran into that when I was ready to stop. That seemed to work well enough. LOL!
All the kids had a great time and this was a good time for Kristine to talk to some of the other kids there who had already been adopted. We had suggested that she talk to others if she still had some fears about being adopted. They could tell her how their experiences were. Ilga was at the party too so it was good to talk to her. We're still trying to find out information about Olegs case and she doesn't have any new information for us. Everyone is telling us we just have to wait for the court to rule on whether or not he can be cleared for adoption. No one can even tell us when that ruling will take place. It's frustrating having to wait but maybe we're just meant to focus on Kristine now. There's nothing we can do to speed things up so we basically have to live with it.
Since today was the official goodbye party, it reminds us that the kids will be leaving soon. Somehow, I think this time will be easier since we will be going to Latvia just a couple of weeks later. We'll see.
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