A Successful Day!!

We are definitely making progress!! Today Sasha came to me three times for comfort!! He also came up voluntarily and hugged my legs for the first time!! (We were outside and I was standing up…..hence he grabbed around my legs). He is sleeping a little more than he usually does, perhaps it is because he is teething and doesn’t always feel that well….but today I had to wake Sasha up at 10:00am and he still took a 3 hour nap…..I had to wake him at 4:00pm, in order to go to pick up Tav and Rem from track practice after school today, and he still went to bed around 8:30 pm!! Unbelievable!! Actually, both the kids are GREAT sleepers!! They have slept through the night….all night, every night since we have had them!! I hesitate to even write about it, because I don’t want to jinx myself!! HA!! Sasha usually goes to bed around 8:30 pm and sleeps 12 hours until 8:30 am the next morning. Kylen still does not want to sleep in his own bed in the room with his brother. We talked about it again tonight, and he said he still wanted to sleep in Mama’s and Papa’s room. I am not sure why he wants to still sleep in our room, since he is OK with taking naps in his own bed….but perhaps him staying in our room will hasten our bonding. However, if he does wake up before we do, like on a weekend and we are wanting to sleep in a little bit, he will just lay quietly on his little floor bed, whispering and playing there quietly. They are really “dream” children!! This morning when I woke up Sasha, I fed him breakfast, and then I held him and gave him a bottle. He has been doing better with this, and he has even been letting me help hold the bottle. He looked into my eyes only a couple of times, but non the less, we are making progress!! Tonight he let me rock and sing to him before I laid him in his crib. It was a standing type rock…as he is not into the rocking chair at all! I will keep trying though! The day was so nice outside that early this evening the kids played outside and they had such fun!! They are both doing so well. Sasha even discovered Rocks!! He carried these three rocks around for quite a while…..and said “ Rah” for rock!! He began to get tired and came to me for comfort. Kylen has made a lot of progress in that when we first had him, he would just get anything he wanted without asking……and now he has learned he must ask permission for everything. He usually gets what he asks for, but I feel it is important for him to ask. Some things he does not get…..like Nintendo DS or The PS2 video game (they belong to Tav and Rem) and I feel he can use his time more wisely right now. Any way, now he is always asking….but in Russian ..”Mama, mohz-nah deal-it?” (Mama, May I do it?) or …May I have …..? So now we need to work on saying it Pah – Eng- GLEE – ski!!