Had dinner with a Russian family last.

We had dinner last night with a couple of young Russian girls ( early 20's maybe ). One of the young ladies was the translator for the other family that we're here with, when they traveled here, back in September. She's newly engaged and lives in a cute, but small apartment. She doesn't have much money, but boy did she go out of her way to make a nice dinner for us. She made borsch, chicken, potatoes, peas, and some coleslaw looking salad. She set the table nicely, with fancy napkins and all. I took lots of pictures and videos, but we're still have issues with uploading them. I'm hoping when we get to Moscow in the next couple of days that we'll have better luck with the uploading. They were so good with Ashlyn and seemed to really enjoy playing with her. Of course Ashlyn had a great time there :). One of the girls told me that I was a good mom to Ashlyn before we left ( made my night :) ). We didn't get home until 10:30 p.m.! Ashlyn did great sleeping through the night again. She's doing really good eating her baby food and seems to have a TON more energy then when we first picked her up from the orphanage. We continue to try and give her solid foods, but she's not doing well with this at all. She gags if she has a small piece of cracker in her mouth. She threw up in my hand after I put a veeerry tiny piece of gerber fruit puff in her mouth. I can tell that we're going to have major eating issues with her. She's very observant and she's a quick learner, so I know that she's going to really blossom when we get home. She also seems really tall/long to me. I think that her feet might be bigger then Alex's :0). One more thing I keep forgetting to mention. The orphanage director gave us a few photos of Ashlyn from her time in the orphanage, including a newborn picture. They also took about 20 photos of her with the disposable camera that I left behind in December. I can't wait to get the film developed when I get back. Tomorrow we have to pay a fine for traveling on a business visa. We were told to prepare ourselves for getting yelled at :(. I'm NOT looking forward to this at all. Hopefully it will be quick. We're also hoping to get Ashlyn's passport tomorrow. As soon as we get her passport, then we can go back to Moscow. Once in Moscow, we'll have a washing machine, english tv, unlimited internet service, unlimited phone service back to the US and we'll be that much closer to coming back home!!!!