Our adventures of balloons, bathrooms & burps

Today was my first visit without Randy and without a translator for a good part of the time.


Ty noticed Randy was gone and we explained that he's taking a trip and he called me to say "hello". Ty asked if Randy would return and we said "yes" and he immediately started to look for him.


He was a bit out of sorts so we started our visit quietly looking at books and I took some pictures. Ty loves to see the pictures we take but nothing turned out very good. I got out a balloon, blew it up and Ty slapped it out of my mouth to watch it fly through the room. This got both boys a bit animated and happy.


Snack time was a bit earlier as I was not sure how well I would handle feeding both at once. We had our usual mess and the adoption coordinator came in to supervise our visit as the translator had to leave. She was impressed how the boys ate the kiwi and that each boy wears a towel for a bib and we push up Maxx's sleeves.


Ty gave me his signal for bathroom which is he walks to the door. The adoption coordinator told me to take him to the bathroom next door instead of his room. This meant the big toilet vs. the little seat. Neither of us had used that bathroom but Ty did a good job of going quickly and enjoyed flushing the toilet and watching the water go down. He also does a good job of washing his hands when he gets back to the bonding room. There are not handwashing supplies in the bathroom so we bring lots of sanitizer and wipes.


We then went back to our snacks and Ty showed me how he could swish juice in his mouth. He thought this was really funny and would march around weaving his head and swishing the juice. Maxx would follow him and giggle. I opened a bottle of water and showed them that I could gargle. They were fascinated by the sound. Ty tried to gargle water and basically spit it all over. That's why we bring a lot of towels with us. He then burped loudly and giggled so I showed him I could also do that. He couldn't figure out how I knew how to do that on command.


Hopefully, the swishing and gargling will be funfor them when we teach them to brush their teeth.


The adoption coordinator had left which was good as I don't know how she would feel about our antics. Ty decided he needed to go to the bathroom again. This meant Maxx had to go with us. When we got to the bathroom, I turned on the light and closed the door. Ty immediately shut off the light and started to yell because he liked the echo in the tile room. This freaked Maxx out. He must not be used to total darkness. I turned on the light and put Ty on the toilet. Maxx cried as he wanted to be held and I had to hold Ty up on the toilet. Ty finished and started to turn off the lights and run in circles (it is a nice sized bathroom) and I picked up Maxx. When we got out of the bathroom, Ty was still keyed up and laughing/shouting in the hall and almost ran into the Babyhouse Director. I should remind her that they told us the boys were active and obviously they were right.


A third American family arrived in Taraz today to start their adoption so the couple from Philadelphia came by the bonding room to visit us as their visit was finished. There is some coordination that needs to be done to get everyone to the babyhouse and back. Ty enjoyed showing them the balloon game and Maxx would smile and show his dimples.


I will not see the boys tomorrow so will probably not post until Wednesday.


Take care,


Marcia