Day 2-our second full day in Kaluga

Today we have had another opportunity to visit with Vasa at the Kaluga baby home.   Sleeping has been a little tricky, because we have both been waking up around midnight wide awake for a while.  It just kind of feels like we're just napping!  Benadryl has been a good friend to help with that.  We ate breakfast in the lobby-josh eats the bacon that still looks raw.  I have been sticking with yogurt and toast.  The food has actually been very good.  Our translator makes sure we get fed-she orders for us wherever we go and then comes back to pick us up.  Today we just picked up a slice of pizza and took it back to the room for lunch. Anyway, back to our baby home visit.  Our driver and translator usually pick us about about 10.  We head to the baby home.  It's still funny to see all of the snow.  Never seen snow like this in my life.  The only snow I've seen before this trip was in Gatlinburg.  The dusting we get in Georgia doesn't compare.  We put booties over our boots to keep things clean in the baby home when we get there and head up to his room.  They have a group of cubbies when you enter.  There is another door that leads to his classroom.  All of the kids get excited to see us and more than a few come out to greet us.  Vasily (they call him Vasa (vosa)) came out eager to go play downstairs in what they call the exercise room.  I'm not clear on if they come in the room at any time other than when parents come to visit.  He loves the motorcycle powerwheel, but I was a little relieved that he didn't want to continue playing on it.  The batteries are dead and my legs and arms are sore today from pushing him around.  We played in the balls some, played with bubbles, and the magnadoodle.  He hasn't been keen on reading.  I brought one book and he has no interest.  We don't know whether to be concerned about that!  I know he doesn't understand us and maybe not totally comfortable with us?  Anyway, if we are feeding him, he will sit still with us.  I would feed him the whole time if they would let us :).  The translator makes us put the food up after a while.   He also likes us to hold him while walking around.   The translator is trying to teach him that we are his mom and dad, but when he has no concept of what that is, it's hard to explain and understand.  He loves to look out the window at the cars and constantly says he wants to go for a car ride.  We didn't know if he had ever been on one!  We have been able spend a good 1 1/2-2 hours with him each time.  We took him back upstairs for pot time (potty time) maybe they really sit on a pot?  They don't let us in the room, but maybe I'll see it on the third trip.  You can see the beds from the door, so Josh and I wonder about how they keep 12 kids in their beds for naps and bedtimes.  I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that.  When we dropped Vasa back off, 4-5 kids came running out to hug us.  I don't know why I thought this was funny, but a little girl kept hitting Josh in the leg.  Maybe if we don't laugh, we'll cry at the situation.  We left about noon and our translator took us on a tour of a park that had a memorial to the creator of the first rocket in space.  The park was very pretty and I enjoyed seeing kids out playing all bundled up.  I also love seeing the women with their furry hats on-so what you think of when you think of Russia.  Anyway, after we picked up our pizza, we headed back to the hotel for a short rest.  They'll pick us back up at 4 to go visit Vasily again.  I miss the girls so badly.  That's probably what has been the most difficult about the experience.  We are struggling with what to name Vasa-if we should use his given name first, as a middle name, and what "A" name can we give him to go with our 3 girls A names.  We're hoping that they don't ask us to decide this week.