coming home??

--We have our appointment at the embassy today, and hopefully we'll be flying out tonight. -Yeah!
--Ethan and I are a little sick, with coughs, but otherwise not too bad.
--Met another mom here, Patty, who is adopting a little boy Ruslan and is going to the embassy today too. She is babysitting Ethan right now -- yeah!!
--Yesterday Ethan and I went to the zoo with Anastasia. He saw lions, kangaroos, horses, bears, flamingos and snakes. It was his first time to the zoo, and he was a little afraid of the big cats and the turtles (?), but was ok with the birds (which he called all of them 'chickens')
--Ethan loves helping out. Yesterday at the supermarket, he wanted to carry the groceries home (yogurt, orange, and candy). He carried it home the whole way!
--He doesn't have his own pair of gloves, so I've had him share mine. The other day he came up with a great idea. He put one glove on, and I put one of my gloves on (for the hands we were holding each other with), and then he suggested we put our other hands in our pockets. Smart boy!
--Molly gave us a DVD with a story on it called 'Is your mama a llama?' We have watched this show approximately a million times. He loves it. It's about a llama who asks other animals if their mama is a llama. They shake their heads and say 'noooo'. Ethan shakes his head and says 'noooo' too. When the kangaroo comes on, he gets up onto his legs and hops, pretending to be one.
--Wish me luck today!
--Gwen