Airing Our Clean Laundry

Airing Our Clean Laundry...

Tamara woke up at 7:45 am this morning... WHAT?

Yeah... she's a morning person and for some reason she's getting up earlier and earlier every day. Smiley face got up went potty, dressed, we washed and headed for the kitchen.

Breakfast... she's always ready to eat. Cereal and milk, followed with a fruit yogurt.

After breakfast she found her stroller. That little stroller kept her busy for a few hours.

Below Daddy gets down on her level and starts to play with her

Tamara loves hats, pocket books, make up and all things girly. She put this one on herself this morning. What a little fashion Diva she is.
Tbilisi has very busy intersections. A tad bit concerning if trying to cross with a stroller. They do have stairs leading to tunnels that take you underneath these intersections. When we use these tunnels Bruce will pick up the front of her stroller and I the back and carry her up and down the stairs while in the stroller. Tamara giggles the whole time. She loves it. Here she picks up the front of her stroller... Daddy has the back as they give Dolly the same thrill.

I put Tamara down for her nap and Nina, Bruce and I went shopping. Anna watched Tamara for us. When we returned a little later then we had planned. Tamara welcomed me with open arms. What a sweet heart. We bought Tamara a really cute stuffed pink cow manufactured in Tbilisi. Below is the mall. About the size of one of the wings on our larger malls. Didn't buy much as the prices are pretty steep compared to the USA. For example there was a toy car for 140 Lari ..about $100 US. I bought one just like it 2 years ago at BJ's for $9.95 ?

Nice mall though. They have a wonderful cafe in the center of the mall where we hung out.. chatted and drank French coffee with Cognac. Yum. Below is the mall. Nina & Bruce are on the left hand side.

While Nina and I shopped.. Bruce was relaxing checking out some electric fireplaces they had on display. Also had a lot of new cars for sale. Some very pretty different versions from what we're used to seeing. Should have taken a few pictures for you car buffs. Sorry :o(

When we returned home after a half hour of hugs and kisses... It was time to air our clean laundry to dry. Finally got the washer working... kind of. Spin cycle doesn't seem to work and it still takes forever. Tamara loves doing laundry. She helps load the washer and insists on helping to hang to dry.

Below is a succession of photos as I followed Bruce and Tamara doing laundry.

OK.. lets go get some more ...

These towels were soaking wet when they brought them out. Some of the bath sheets were so heavy Tamara needed help holding them up. lol

Tamara loved the shopping bag from the toy store... almost as much as her little cow. Here she pretends she's shopping. Very cute!

Tamara learned a new word today... "up" .

We've also been working on "Daddy" after hours of Say Daddy, say Daddy, Daddy, Dad-dy. When we put her to sleep and pretended to sleep hoping that she would too... she started to repeat a bunch of stuff... but what I heard was "Daddy". I think she was checking to see if we were really sleeping?

Tamara is a character. She also brings us our Georgian phrase book if we're trying to tell her something and she doesn't get it. Amazing little girl. So cute, sweet and I'm starting to think it's just a matter of time before she out smarts us. ;o) lol

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