Day 15

The last official day of bonding! Balzhan will now submit my request for a court date tomorrow.

We arrived a little early today so Sasha had not finished eating yet. So for the first half hour, it was Leeza and me. She wanted some mommy time at the start and I got to hold and rock her for about 10 minutes then it was off and running.
We were in the gym again today, but today Leeza took advantage of the gym and mama's one on one attention. She would dive through the circle landing on her head and flipping over and lay there until mama came and got her up and then she would be off and running again.

She explored all the equipment and liked to climb on everything. We also played catch with the beach ball. She was very good at throwing it back to me. I bounced it off the wall and she copied me.
Sasha eventually was brought in and had NO TEARS today! She even smiled a few times. Sasha slowed Leeza down for a few minutes, but not for long.
She found mama's shoes and empty camera case which quickly became her purse. She was able to walk around quite well in my shoes! They are on the wrong foot, but that didn't slow her down. The caretakers came in and I thought they might be angry since you are not supposee to walk on the carpets in outside shoes, but they laughed when they saw her.
Sasha enjoyed playing with the puzzle and asked mama to make the animal sounds several times today. The puzzle is of farm animals so we have moo cows and oink pigs etc. She is finally starting to open up a little.
She does love to watch her big sister. She was fascinated by her walking around in my shoes. Both girls were dressed for winter today. It was 100 degrees outside!

Abby and I went to lunch one last time at Mozzarella. We had Buffalo wings and pizza and chocolate lava cake for dessert. The cake and ice cream was fantastic. The Buffalo wings were very good, but not spicy-more like sesame wings. After that we hit the Mega and the souvenir mall and then were picked up by Balzahn to go to the notaries office.

The notaries office was a small airless very hot office. Many papers were signed. In fact at one point, Abby was attempting to adopt my 2 girls! I quickly pointed that one out, but the lack of air in the office made the mistake completely understandable. The ladies there were very nice and efficient and even offered us chocolate when we were done. Afterwards, we stopped at Abby's apartment. The mark of a true friend is someone who saves her last bag of Nacho Dorritos to give as a good bye present. I will think of Abby and Jake as I enjoy the last bag of Dorritos in the city of Shymkent! Thanks Abby!