We’ve been watching and singing Russian songs from the “Mir detstva” DVD – the one that I got for Andrei in Moscow, and he brought back on Sunday.
This brings back so many childhood memories, I get very sentimental.
We sit together on the bed with Yuri, and we dance along with the music and laugh, I am so glad he likes it! I hope this will make him learn Russian, and introduce him to a little part of the Russian culture. He already has favourite songs, the ones that he heard in Moscow, or the ones from other CDs.

Yuri has been really good lately. Very sweet, and ever so funny. Really grown up he is, very independent – when getting dressed, walking up and down the stairs, helping out with the shopping in the supermarket. He is so cute when he says ; “thank you, mama”, and “please” – they got well trained in the nursery!

He has mastered the brick houses – to our great amazement he has been coming up with really complex compositions – small and big houses organised into little villages, all very pretty! It took him about 3 months to master this, first month he was just watching us, then he tried some simple houses, and last month every day ended up with a little masterpiece.. He would build it quietly in his room, and then come and call me to have a look “mama, domik!”.
Now he stopped playing with it, and is finding new entertainment. Playing with the red balloon, drawing, reading books and singing action songs and “twinkle twinkle little star” seem to be his favourites at the moment.

He is still not speaking in sentences, but he knows so many words. It’s astonishing how well he can communicate, and how he makes himself understood. He made me laugh so hard, when he said “bo-bo shtany” (pain in the trousers), just because he does not know how to say a word “leg”, and also how he is saying “no kit” (I wont’ eat wale), because he can not say “fish”.

He is fascinated by counting these days, we count everything, and he never gets bored. Even when he is upset and crying, if I start counting from one to ten, it would calm him down, it kind of hypnotizes him.

He does wake up at night quite often lately, but at least there is no more tantrums, neither in the morning nor on our way back. When I come to pick him up he is always so happy and smiley, and unlike before he does not make wait for ages before agreeing to go home. And again he does not mind the push chair, he seems to like being in it again, which makes things easier for me.

I can’t believe how much I love this little boy.. I wonder if I ever have a second child if I could love him/her as much?

below is my favourite photo - yuri kissed by cara and mira - Andreis girls.
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