Today Richard went to English School (2 hours Tuesdays and Thursdays) and had a bad event.
One big kid at school kicked Richard in the bum and knocked him over, his name is Gresha. With tears flowing from Richard the teacher got angry with Gresha and gave him a talking too.
When Richard was explaining to me [...]
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Calling Richard from the car on the way home:
P: I’ll be home in 45minutes ok?
R: Ohh, that sounds like a lot!
P: No it isn’t long but I can be home in one hour if you like!
R: Yea, that sounds better.
P: Ok then see you in an hour.
R: OK, bye.
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Richard has just started with the never ending series of one word questions, Why?
We started making attempts to answer the questions fully to enhance his learning but we quickly learnt that he wasn’t listening to the answers.
Today I quizzed him on why he asks so many why questions and he replied without hesitation or thought [...]
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Today uncle Ury rang from his town, Podporojie to talk with Babuliya. As usual Ricard answered the phone (there is usually a lot of trouble if someone else picks it up) and started chatting away and it got funny fast.
R: Deda Uria, what are you doing?
U: Oh, I’m just drinking some juice.
pause
R: What, you don’t [...]
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Today Babuliya decided to give richard a little something for being a good by ALL day. She thought it would be nice if Santa made the reward instead of her so she put some chocolate in his Xmas stocking and hinted that he should look in it.
When he looked he found nothing, Babuliya forgot to [...]
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I’m off to Tallinn today in Estonia.В Actually I wrote this after I got home to Moscow but anway…
The overnight train from Moscow to Tallinn leaves Moscow in the early evening and arrives in Tallinn the next morning at around 8am.В Paying for ‘Coupe’ compartment is what you want to do especially if you are [...]
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Today we had a big lesson about asking for food and then not eating it after it was especially prepared upon request.
Just sitting around getting hungry is not Richard’s style.В The usual thing is to think, gee I’m hungry and I feel like - hmm lets see. . .В Ahh yea an egg.
Richard - Babuliya [...]
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Mum - Richard, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Richard - Big (pause), two times Papa.
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Well, we havnen?t written for a while here and it took an even to make it happen too!
Today we were getting ready for dinner and a puzzle wouldn?t go together. This was a bit upsetting in itself but then when Mummy made me come in for dinner and I told her something that perhaps I [...]
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Walking down the street holding hands with a young female friend of about the same age (Marsha). Marsha said to Richard, “do you love me?”, Richard changed the subject and said ‘look how far back the adults are!” Unfazed Marsha asks again and this time Richard couldn’t avoid the question so he gave a two [...]
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Everyone had gone to bed and Colier and Babuliya were pretending to be asleep in the bed under Richards so that he would go to sleep.В Wanting a book to be read to him he keptВ calling out to them in Russian “read me a book, read me a book please, please read me a book.”В В [...]
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After regularly sending (gobeldigook) emails to people on Play House Disney he saw Babuliya checking her hotmail account and said “Babuliya, people send you emails but they don’t send them to me even though I write so many to other people!”He comes out as friendly as anything and usually does what he was originally told.
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Richard has started to get naughty and sooky in the last few months so now when he starts to cry when he is asked to do something he doesn’t like he is put in the bedroom until he is quiet. He comes out as friendly as anything and usually does what he was originally told.
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He has just started taking an interest in eating his own mucus mostly referred to as booggas!
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