Visitation Day 8 - Speech Lessons

Another nice day in Karaganda!

The highlight of our day today was observing Lera's "speech therapy" appointment. She and a little boy, Sasha, sat at a tiny little table and were so good and cute, it was fun to see. They did little activities like blowing, clicking their tongues, making animal noises, and stacking colored blocks (what that has to do with speech therapy, we haven't a clue). At first, we were a little alarmed that Sasha could do everything faster and better than Lera...until we learned that he is 3-1/2!



This afternoon, we gave Lera a new toy that she loved... a stroller for her doll. She walked it around the baby house several times...until she laid eyes, for the first time, on her friend Sylvia in a real stroller. At that, she grabbed her doll, hurled it down on the ground and tried to climb into the play stroller. Wish we could have caught that on film, because it cracked us up.























We did give her a ride in the real stroller, which she also loved... the "Lera Machina" as Russ calls it.