Our day started with a trip to see Dr. Boris so he could examine Liam and give him clearance for the U.S. Embassy.   Dr. Boris is a Russian pediatric doctor that also speaks English.   He was wonderful with Liam and comforted him throughout the exam.   Liam did great and never cried once during the exam.   Dr. Boris said that the only problem he saw was that we’re going to have to fight off the women when Liam gets older because he’s quite the charmer.   ;-)

After we left the medical clinic we stopped by the CSS office for Tonya to drop off some paperwork.   While we were waiting in the car for her, Pasha who was our driver/guide from Trip 1 showed up with Susan & Randy.   We visited with Pasha for a few minutes and invited him to our apartment to give him the gifts we had brought him.   After that, Liam & I were dropped off at the apartment while Rob went on with Tonya to the notary office to sign paperwork to have Liam removed from the database of available children.

We stayed in the rest of the afternoon while Tonya went back out without us to the Moscow Regional Court in Krasnogarsk to file paperwork to cancel out the Power of Attourney that we had done just a few days ago.   It was pretty much an afternoon of just hanging out, playing, & a little napping.   After dinner Pasha stopped by our apartment and Liam seemed to remember his old buddy.   We visited with him for about 30 minutes and then he was on his way — he’d already had a long day with Susan & Randy.

Pasha & Liam


As mentioned in yesterday’s post, we’d decided to use baby sign language to help us communicate with Liam.   The book we have recommend that we start with the word "more" and to only teach that one word until the child masters it.   We figured it’d take a couple of weeks for Liam to get that mastered but he already has it down pretty good.   Even without the sign language, he does a really good job of letting us know he wants more!   ;-)   Here’s a video from lunchtime yesterday demonstrating his new skills:



 

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