May 2000 (Part 5)

             On May 26th, Doctor Piagaï told Mommy that she could come back to see me the next morning between 10 am and noon... She said that this was the best moment because I would have just been fed and I would be in a good mood...

            What does she mean by 'in a good mood'??? Am I not always in a good mood... *sigh* (of exasperation!) ... Anyway, Mommy came back the next day at 10 am sharp still with Vladimir and Olga. Olga was slightly more smiling but Vladimir was not the 'smiling type' ... Mommy understood that Olga was that way because she felt she was responsible for the whole adoption process and she was always afraid that something was going to go wrong... Well, OK, but still, Mommy would have appreciated more pleasant people around her, while she had just met the most beautiful baby in the world ...What do you mean, what baby???

BUT ME OF COURSE !!!!

             Since it was sunny and very hot, Doctor Piagaï said that we could go out in the garden if we wanted to... Well, I should say 'if Mommy wanted to' because as I think I have already told you, one never ever asks me anything... **** big sigh***

              As I had just been sick with bronchitis, the caregivers dressed me as warmly as possible and they put me a lovely hat on, I was really very hot but I didn't say anything because I could very well see how very beautiful I was....

             Mommy took me for a walk in the garden for an hour and then we came back inside and they took my lovely hat off. We played again for one more hour and talked a bit and Mommy filled out the official application for my adoption, with Olga's help. Olga was surprised to see all the names that Mommy wanted to give me: Alice Daria Christine Jacqueline... For me as well, it sounds a bit long but Alice is the name Mommy has chosen for me, Daria is the name I was born with, Christine is my godmother's name and Jacqueline is the name of my grand mother, my Mommy's mommy who passed away in 1997 and whom Mommy misses very very much and who would have loved to see me... So when you know all that, you understand that all those names are important...

             After all this 'documents filling', Mommy gave me a big kiss and told me to be a good girl and to wait for her patiently because she would soon come back to fetch me and take me to France with her. I answered 'yes, of course' and I went with the caregivers to eat my tvarog...

             Mommy went back to Moscow and then to Paris, Olga had told her that I would be summoned to the court about two weeks after, actually the wait lasted 6 weeks....