A Doll That Walks
Gilwice, Poland - Tuesday, April 27, 2004
We had a long, but wonderful day with the children. We played with them from 9:30 to Noon and again from 3:00 to 6:30. The time just flew by as we all really enjoyed being together. (Elaine was exhausted by the end of it and asked me to get dinner sent to the room.)
“I” and “D” are trying to communicate to us and we wish we had more Polish under our belt.
“Little D” asked Elaine if we would buy her a doll that walks. We told her that we would be happy to buy her a doll when she gets home, but we have not heard of any dolls that walk. Although, from our perspective, “D” qualifies as a living doll that walks. The “I” said that Daddy going to buy him a plane and “M” a train. It should be interesting when they get to our playroom.
The older boy - “I” is trying very hard to learn English words already. In Warsaw, we bought a children’s English-Polish dictionary. He and I enjoy sitting on the carpet and learning together. He is ALREADY trying to sound out English words. Impressive! As he sat and studied, he called himself ”Professor I”. He definitely is not shy. He chastised Daddy for having an untied shoelace and promptly tied it up for Daddy.
The younger boy - “M” is being very quiet. We were warned that children of age 3 would do this at first. The nuns are amused because they say that he is very chatty. This is a lot for a three year-old to take in. He generally follows the lead of his older brother and sister.
We ran around (literally), played with the balls (sounds like pewkee in Polish), colored, played with the puppets, looked at the dictionary, and played with bubbles. The boys and I played soccer (sounds like pewkee nogna in Polish).
Then we all played with the thin wooden blocks that seem to be favorite toy of the children. “I” built a quite elaborate bridge. “D” built a house with a road to it. Even Mr. Quiet, build a small dom (house) for this little bear.
We also brought a nice seedless orange and a chocolate bar and split them up between the five us. “I” really touched us when he offered Elaine and I each a piece of his chocolate. He only had two little pieces. With the orange pieces, Elaine fed the two older children as if she was a mother bird giving her baby birds words. “D” thanked Panni Sova (Mrs Owl) for the food.
In the morning, we had brought the computer with us and showed them digital pictures of them on the computer (sounds like computer in Polish). We hope the good Sisters tell them about Ross soon, because there are so many more pictures we could show them on the computer but many of them have Ross in them.
We had a long, but wonderful day with the children. We played with them from 9:30 to Noon and again from 3:00 to 6:30. The time just flew by as we all really enjoyed being together. (Elaine was exhausted by the end of it and asked me to get dinner sent to the room.)
“I” and “D” are trying to communicate to us and we wish we had more Polish under our belt.
“Little D” asked Elaine if we would buy her a doll that walks. We told her that we would be happy to buy her a doll when she gets home, but we have not heard of any dolls that walk. Although, from our perspective, “D” qualifies as a living doll that walks. The “I” said that Daddy going to buy him a plane and “M” a train. It should be interesting when they get to our playroom.
The older boy - “I” is trying very hard to learn English words already. In Warsaw, we bought a children’s English-Polish dictionary. He and I enjoy sitting on the carpet and learning together. He is ALREADY trying to sound out English words. Impressive! As he sat and studied, he called himself ”Professor I”. He definitely is not shy. He chastised Daddy for having an untied shoelace and promptly tied it up for Daddy.
The younger boy - “M” is being very quiet. We were warned that children of age 3 would do this at first. The nuns are amused because they say that he is very chatty. This is a lot for a three year-old to take in. He generally follows the lead of his older brother and sister.
We ran around (literally), played with the balls (sounds like pewkee in Polish), colored, played with the puppets, looked at the dictionary, and played with bubbles. The boys and I played soccer (sounds like pewkee nogna in Polish).
Then we all played with the thin wooden blocks that seem to be favorite toy of the children. “I” built a quite elaborate bridge. “D” built a house with a road to it. Even Mr. Quiet, build a small dom (house) for this little bear.
We also brought a nice seedless orange and a chocolate bar and split them up between the five us. “I” really touched us when he offered Elaine and I each a piece of his chocolate. He only had two little pieces. With the orange pieces, Elaine fed the two older children as if she was a mother bird giving her baby birds words. “D” thanked Panni Sova (Mrs Owl) for the food.
In the morning, we had brought the computer with us and showed them digital pictures of them on the computer (sounds like computer in Polish). We hope the good Sisters tell them about Ross soon, because there are so many more pictures we could show them on the computer but many of them have Ross in them.