Fresh Air, Friends, Fun!

1. Zig and his school friend Irishka

2. Zig, Lizka and Dyadya Grisha

3. Zig coming down the easy slope after a long day

Personality

We were playing around with rebuses in a Russian book I bought Zig and he decided to make some of his own. This one says "personality" (get it?) He did another one of a cup followed by the letters ON. I said cup-on? To which he replied COUPON!! Pretty cool for a six-year-old.

Indoors Fun

Eating jelly made by Yulia
Hanging out with Papa and Uncle Sergei
Watching cartoons with Little Robert

Winter in Moscow

What does winter in Moscow look like? When you're a sick kindergartener, it looks like this:

1. Zig asked me to make a sweater for his friend, and once I got started on it he said "Mama, teach me how to knit." It was a quiet, early morning with just the two of us, so we cuddled on the sofa in the kitchen and I showed him how to knit. He picked it up quickly and completely understands the process of how the new loops hold the old loops. He's slow but careful, a true Avetisyan.

2. This morning he amused himself by stacking a bunch of things on the kitchen scale.

3. When you can't go to school you can still play LEGOS!

For Dedo and Babushka:

На первой фотографии Сережа вяжет свитер своей подруге. Он меня попросил сделать ей что-нибудь, а потом решил что он еще лучше сам сделает. Так ей теплее будет...

На второй фотографии он построил инсталяцию на моих кухонных весах. Это заняло у него почти все утро (много раз менял).

На последней фотографии - сами понимаете что!

Letter to Eddie

Uncle Eddie, how can you fix the helicopter? It is broken. Bye bye.

Дядя Эдди, как можно починить вертолет? Он сломался. Пока.

More January Pictures

Self-portrait

Robot costume from school play

Modeling new LEGO-themed sweater.

Birthday Boy

Ziggy's buds Artur and Robert love to dress him up whenever we come visit. He was hamming it up for the camera yesterday and I thought to myself - I guess this is what it's like to be the mom of a six year old boy. Six!!

We still have the quiet moments sometimes. Which is good. For his birthday Zig got a new Bionicle, two little cars (one of them a rare SMZ S-3A), a copy of Treasure Island in Russian and some birthday money to spend on whatever his little heart desires.