An Afternoon With Friends

This afternoon we spent at the Internot with Natasha and some of her classmates. We finally got Nastia to smile for the pictures. She is so beautiful and she is quiet and sweet just like Natasha. I love the picture we got of Natasha and Nastia together. You can just see how gentle Natasha is in trying to get her friend to smile for the picture. They are such good friends. We played Old Maid and looked at photos of the children that were on the wall. There was a photo of the 4th and 8th grade class together that was on a calender that had a picture of Santa on it. Nastia was so funny because when we were pointing out children in the picture Inna was trying to be funny by saying that Santa was her brother and Nastia said "Yes, because you both have red noses."(Inna's nose gets red very easily I guess as she was worried about how it would look when we first took her picture when she came in from outside). We were all laughing so hard and Inna the hardest of all of us. It was just so unexpected that Nastia said that because we hadn't barely heard a peep out of her the whole time.(Val, she reminds me of you). The children also have displays of their needlework and knitting. I have put a picture of Natasha's on the blog. Miranda Natasha said she will help you learn to knit, crosstitch and sew when we come home. She is very excited about this. Ariana and Natasha have been working on the crossstitch we brought until mama accidently broke the needle! So we will have to find a new one. Natasha is so funny when we play games together. She loves to tease Papa and holds her cards really tightly when he trys to take a card from her when we play Old Maid. We just love hearing her little expressions that she has like, "Oi!" "Ooh"(sounds like eww) and "Oh Mama!" And she is so sweet she is always tweeking Ariana's cheeks and giving her kisses. We had fun with her friends today and she was happy to get pictures for her class book.