Our trip to Tuva

We have been away from home for a long time. Now we are home I would like to show you some photos from our trip to Tuva. Tuva is a long way away, so we had to go on a bus that flies in the air. Bus! I like it!


When we got to the airport, which is like a bus stop, we had to wait all day long, cos the plane was very late. We ate in the cafe twice. I read my books, slept and then Mommy brought out the bubbles, left over from my birthday. I even learnt to blow some bubbles. The little boy is Tuvan. He won't cut his hair until he is 3 years old.


I think the little boy liked me, because he kept turning around to say hello on the plane.


After a little while I figured out that this was a bit like a holiday, so I ran around singing "Yay" to everyone and clapping my hands. I even learnt the Tuvan word for no, which is "Chok." Any time someone spoke Tuvan I would smile and say "Chok, Chok!" I can speak Russian much better than Tuvan.


We went camping by the lake and here is our family tent. I like the tent, it's fun sleeping there.


Two of the kids in this picture are from Aidys' family. The other two children are from Khakassia.


There were lots of cows in Tuva. I also like cows a lot, especially because my favourite Wiggles song is about cows. Moo, moo!


We went to two lakes while we were camping. The second lake had really nice grass. I enjoyed running around in the grass.


I liked the grass so much, that I decided to dance. It's more fun to watch me on the video though.


After staying at Aidys' house we went to stay with an American family. They have three kids. Kinsey really liked playing with me because she has two brothers and no sisters, so she liked having another girl to play with.


Kinsey, Caiden and Cole have their whole back yard as a sand box. I loved playing in the sand, when Jack the dog was not there. Jack! No! Jack! No!


We went camping with the Americans in some cabins in the forest in the Krasny state. We all had fun there.


There were so many flowers there, that I was in heaven.

Drawing Smiles

This is the chalkboard that Mommy and Daddy got me for my birthday. Its fun cause you can draw lots of pictures and then just start again. But I found out that crayons aren't allowed on the chalkboard.

Mommy is very proud of my pictures, so she said I should put one here for you to see. I drew this one this morning in my notebook. Recently I have been getting very good at drawing smiley faces. My whole book is full of them, (the last book was full of flowers). This picture is extra good, you can see that he has 2 eyes, a nose, 2 ears (one worked out a little better than the other) and lots of hair! Do you like my picture? I did it all by myself!

Out and About

The weather is nice and warm now, and I'm getting really grown-up so its easier for us to get out and about. Like when we go grocery shopping or go for a walk in the park I can walk there all by myself. But sometimes when I get tired I rest on daddy's sholders. "I like it!" - thats my new favourite phrase, I use it all the time to tell Mommy and Daddy what I like. Smart eh?

Now I'm 2!

Today I turned 2! I am a big girl now. Mommy wrote me a book all about turning 2 and all the things I can do. I had a birthday party. It was going to be outside in the park, but it was rainy today, so it was at the church instead. Lots of my friends came- David, Anna and Misha; Emily and Jonathan; Kira; Zlata. Daddy and Jeremy blew lots of bubbles and also blew up balloons to play with.




Mummy made a yummy cake and people sang Happy Birthday to me. Then I learned about blowing out a candle.





My friends also gave me lots of nice presents.

More flowers

When I walked in the forest I picked lots and lots of flowers, see!

Riverboat

If you look back in my blog about a year ago, you will see a picture of Mommy and me on this same boat. I am much bigger now, I will be 2 on Saturday.

Feeding the birdies

Birdies have always been one of my favourites. Birdy was one of the first words I learnt. Now I like to feed the birdies. Mommy bought some bird seeds from the shop for 1 and a half roubles. I gave them to the birdies and then lots of them came. Mommy said it was well worth the one and half roubles.

Let me show you the animals

This morning when I woke up Mommy and Daddy told me that we were going to see some animals. Right away I thought of cows, but we didn't see any cows today. But it was an exciting day and we saw lots of animals. Let me show you.

In the lake there were lots of duckies and swans and even Canadian geese.


Lying on the ground is a wallaby and standing behind is an emu. They are both from Australia, where I was born.


Wow, this is a polar bear. Good thing he is behind the glass.


My favourite animal that I saw today is the jraff. Eat, eat, jraff.

Sandbox in Moscow

Know what? They have sandboxes in Moscow too! There is a sandbox right outside our door downstairs. I play there almost every day, and we bought a new shovel and bucket because my other one is in Novosibirsk. Today we played at another park in the Botanical gardens, there were lots of flowers there too.
Can you see how fast I'm running? I can go really FAST! Mommy barely had time to take the picture!

Come on a tour with me

Last week my Daddy had to go to Moscow to see the doctor. Mummy and I stayed home in Novosibirsk. I missed him very much. I kept looking for him everywhere. Then on Tuesday we went on the plane to Moscow to be with Daddy.


While Daddy waits to go to the doctor again, we went to see a very important place in Russia. It's called the Kremmy. Welcome to the Kremmy. The buildings are old.


This place has caused a lot of Russian people to kneel. I learned all about this important historical lesson today.

After we looked at all the old buildings and churches, we went and sat in the Kremmy gardens, where we had a drink and ate apricot peroshkies. The gardens were very pretty. Mummy and Daddy enjoyed sitting and lying on the grass and I enjoyed all of the flowers.




Look at the flowers, there are so many and they are so pretty.


This tree had baby apples.