Happy Birthday, VikEllie!

Long Version: Today’s visit was so much fun!!!! Our facilitator here arranged for balloons, snacks and a cake and we brought just a small gift to the little princess…When we got there, we went up to the visitation room as usual and there was a group of children in the room. They were doing the usual little music time that we have seen pretty much every day that we have been there. They left almost immediately and Vika’s whole group was brought into the room and they are too cute! They sat down and had a little music time and then we laid out the snacks… During the music, they all formed a circle around Els and sang to her and then one by one they each went into the center with her and held hands and danced…adorable.

After Vikellie (our transition name) blew out her candles, they all had a little snack. Then, about half of the group left the room and in came the balloons. We played with the kids; one of the nannies played the piano and the kids snacked, played and danced. After a bit, we took the cake into the director’s office where she had tea laid out. Vika blew out the candles again for our benefit and she really thought it was fun:0) (never hurts to be the center of attention) We also had champagne…and another 3 drink toast…it was really so lovely that they made such a big deal of it.

During this time, the other family was also with us as well as our facilitators, and the director. We had the best rasberry cake but the kids were not allowed to have any and they did not seem to want it either??? Apparently they are not used to heavy sweets although they seem to get a fair bit of c-a-n-d-y from what I have seen. She opened the little present we got for her and she played with it for a bit but then went back to spooning her hot tea into her mouth…I will have to become a tea drinker…eeek. (I don’t think so)

After this, we went back into the visitation room and get this: ALL THE WORKERS LEFT THE ROOM!!!! That’s right…and she did not cry…she colored, sat comfortably drawing and playing with the crayons for about 30 minutes and even said a few words to us which we did not understand but pretended like we did…LOL. So today’s visit was a resounding success and we plan to make everyday for the rest of our lives a party!

Short version: good visit!