Double Day

A Double day    (10/5/16)

The morning started out with breakfast at Double Coffee. I have to laugh at the Rossini family as everything that we ordered had to be modified. Remember the scene in “When Harry Met Sally”, when what’s her name was ordering a salad. Well, that was all four of us.

Today, we started to make our plans for the near future, which includes buying airline tickets. First up, was to contact Nata’s new foster family and asked if we could all meet up at Big Lido on Oct 16 for lunch. Being that the FM did not speak English I put Nata on the phone to coordinate the event. For all I know, she might have told them we were buying them a 16 person Big Limo in October. I hope she got it right!

I also contacted our adoption travel agency to book our airline tickets. The big question is….do we get two window seats or 1 window seat with the 4^th person sitting in the adjacent row. You would think that would be an easy question for the girls. Nope, it took over an hour to decide.

While Sanija had her school work to do….let me stop for a moment and tell you about Sheri. At some point Sheri came back to where I was getting Nata ready for the day. By the way, try getting a little girl out of the bathtub when the bath has waterjets, bubbles, toy mermaids and LED ice cubes. When taking her out she told me next time she wants to take a longer one. I told her I think 45 minutes was long enough. Anyhow, back to the story. Sheri comes in and shows me a 5^th grade math problem. Her comments, “What the….., this makes no sense”, I just smiled and said, “you would rather have the partial dyslexic person attempt to teach her about common core math”. “She’ll really be confused then”.

I finished up with the little one while Sheri finished up with the bigger one. After everybody was ready for the day, our attempt will be to ride the Double Decker Tour bus.

It’s now 8pm and we just got home. The girls are writing in their journals and have a lot to write about. We made the 3:45pm Double Decker Tour Bus. This is the second time we have taken this tour and it was still entertaining. Afterwards we hopped in a Taxi and headed off to Spice. The cab driver wasn’t sure what I meant as they would call it Spizza in Latvian. Anyhow, we made it to one of the biggest malls in Riga and a mall we have never gone to. Besides shopping they had a Lido. Lido is kind of a Chucky Cheese but with more interactive games, rides and carnival type games. I’ll tell you, 30 euros goes very quickly! But we had a blast doing it. The girls each got a few bucks to spend on whatever they wanted. Sanija bought a remote control car and Nata some Ken doll clothing. Sanija, the master negotiator she is, convinced me that it was imperative that she buy Nata a “Every After High” Doll. So tonight she will be doing dishes.

If I said that my ugly green monster was lying dormant and unaffected by…….let’s just say…...things! You could start calling me Pinocchio. But to be honest, I couldn’t be happier….grumble, grumble grumble. No seriously, I’m happy….my inner voice keeps saying “keep telling yourself that”. No big revelation here but we know that “males” were not a big part in our girls’ lives. In fact, for the most part males played no positive remodel for either of my girls. So it would make since that our girls natural gravitate to Sheri. Nope, that doesn’t affect me one Bit! Since we got our littlest princess back Nata always goes to mommy for 90% of most things. Again, No problem here! When walking in public, she will typically grab Sheri’s hand. Nope, doesn’t bother me one bit!  Each day she keeps getting more and more affectionate with us. Opps, I meant to say with Sheri. Well tonight in the car it was Nata, Sheri and me in that order in the back seat. Nata was sorta snuggled up against Sheri and Sheri did a quick rub of Nata’s hand, then stopped. Nata in a very soft, loving voice asked Sheri, “Please Mommy, no stop”. She snuggled up even more while Sheri rubbed her hand. A few minutes later and Sheri had stopped again. Nata started to rub Mommy’s hand and softy said, “you have beautiful nails mommy”. Very seldom does Nata wonder too far from Sheri.  NO….I”M NOT JEALOUS!!!!  I’m not, I’m not, I’m not!

Okay, deep breath…in…out. I’m better now!  There was a small part I left out.  Sheri called me back into the room and told Nata to say what she had just told mommy. Nata said: “you’re the best daddy in the whole world”.  Okay,Okay….all is forgiven…..till tomorrow!

On a funny note. I wish I could write down how many times I laugh each day. You know my thoughts about how funny Sanija is. Well, Nata is just as funny in a different way. She is the biggest ham you have ever seen.  She gives Savannah a run for the money. I wonder where she gets some of the expressions she uses, it just cracks you up! I truly believe it’s because she never had a real mother before and she is just soaking it up. Each day their bond gets stronger and stronger. I love it!