Today we went to the Sprint Car Hall of Fame where Sergiy could see lots and lots of sprint cars and then Gary Schumacher gave us a ride up the elevator to see the view of the Knoxville Raceway from the grandstands. Then Gary took us up to get a view from the skyboxes and gave Sergiy a Knoxville Raceway cap as a souvenir.
Andrew came over with a soccer ball and Sergiy put some soccer moves on him. Andrew had also brought a baseball and some mitts. I don't think Sergiy had ever put on a baseball mitt because he didn't know how to put it on his hand. They played catch for a while and came in because it was getting too cold outside.
Deborah got off early and we went to Des Moines to do some last minute Christmas shopping. It is really hard to get out of Sergiy exactly what his like and dislikes are. We ask for favorite this or that but he shrugs his shoulders. I really wonder if he has favorites, I think the concept might be somewhat foreign. He really likes and appreciates whatever comes his way.
We thought we would go up and down the toy aisle and watch his reaction as to what he pays attention to or gets excited about. Well, that didn't work, he didn't pay attention at all and was quite bored by it all. We would stop and play with Nerf stuff, Deb and I got Star War sabers out and fought....he really didn't care. None of it tripped his trigger. A little harder glance at soccer shoes with cleats maybe, or an interesting sports jersey but not much else. Until we took him to sunglass display. I had him try some on to see what he would like and we tried on sunglasses forever. He must have tried on half of the available stock and there was alot there.
We could tell what he liked and saved them back.
When we got home, he really looked tired but didn't much want to go to bed. He wanted to watch some more Animal Planet. This kid knows his fish. He said a Russian word and I would look it up and he was right, then another..he was saying the Russian words for pike and sturgeon. So, a bit more TV and then I told him...time for bed (because I really needed to get to bed).
The most interesting thing for me today was to see him read from these elementary school readers Kim Collins loaned to me yesterday. They are arranged from "super simple" to more difficult. We did one of the simple ones and progressed to a few more levels. It was a blast watching him read English without too much prompting!
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