Friday's Visit

Finally Friday!!!  Not that it means much to us as everyday is the same for us in Kaz!  Today we really worked on English, which was hard because Ry was squirmish and had a hard time focusing!  Today we focused on "Where is _______ (mama, papa, the green car, etc.)".  He had a lot of fun because we incorporated hide-n-seek for every "Where".  His favorite was for him to hide and us to say "Where is Dias?" and look all over for him!

Speaking of Dias, we finally had the name discussion with him today.  We explained that in English, Mama is Mom and Papa is Dad.  He asked what his name was in English and we told him all about Ryland.  He said that he likes the name and is very excited to have the same family name as us.  He can say Stone without a problem, but he cannot say Ryland!  Leave it to me to pick a name that starts with R, the one letter he has the hardest time pronouncing; it came out something like "Loveland".  We'll keep working on that!

Everytime he gets restless while learning English, we remind him how he needs to learn English to live in America.  He instantly re-focuses and says that he really wants to learn so that he can talk to everybody.  Wish his attention span was just a little longer, but we will get there!

Tomorrow after our visit, our driver is taking us to his dacha to show us everything.  This is a piece of land outside of town where you can grow anything you want.  Since everybody lives in apartments in the city, the government has given them a little piece of land outside of town to cultivate.  This is a very traditional Soviet thing and we are really excited to learn more about it tomorrow and try some fresh fruits/veggies. 

My Russian "Baths" experience was post-poned due to the President's arrival and we have rescheduled for Sunday afternoon.

We showed Ry how to take a self pic today and he was super excited, this is 1 of about a million!

The Stone's

Learning English words - of course, he found the airplane first!

Kisses to all of our family & friends!