The Personality Comes Alive!

Tuesday, Apr 21st – 9:30pm (St Petersburg time)

Our first complete day is over (or pretty much…Maddox is still going strong but we are hoping he will soon pass out from exhaustion). Maddox slept the entire night and woke up exactly at 7am. He slept great, but for some reason Britt and I could not sleep at all. We both really missed Emma, Geneva and Jackson last night. Here are a few things we have learned about Maddox in the last 28 hours:
He loves to walk. He is coming out of his shell more and more all the time. He responds to his name (Maddox) and knows that Britt is his “daddy” and I am his “mommy.” He now says “dada.” He doesn’t like having lotion put on his body, but likes having his hair washed and brushed. He will keep eating as long as there is food in front of him and will eat a few bites of anything, even if he doesn’t seem to really like it.

He loves to slide.
We spent the day like this: get up, eat, go outside walking, eat, nap, eat, go outside walking, eat, bedtime. He has shown us today that he does have a temper. He didn’t like it when we put him in the stroller one time because I think he felt he wasn’t done playing in the dirt. We’d only been doing it for over an hour, but apparently that wasn’t long enough. We figured it out by the arched back, pushing against us trying to buckle him in and the crying. It only lasted a few minutes and then he was back to his smiley, head-bonking self.
Tomorrow we have the morning to ourselves and then we head to Moscow in the afternoon.
Right now Maddox has retrieved the trash can from under the desk and is putting whatever he can find in it… currently it contains his ball, his shoes, Britt’s socks, one of Britt’s slippers…oh wait, now he is taking everything out, including the trash…Britt is videotaping it, so we’ll have it to blackmail him with it later. It may be a long night!