Funny Ben stories

At breakfast yesterday, I told Ben to tell the waitress "speceba" which means thank you. A few miutes later a second waitress came out from in back and Ben hollered, "look Mama, two cebas." A little while later the waitress brought Ben a spoon and without any prompting he said, "thank you, ceba." I guess he thinks that's what we call waitresses here in Russia.

We have been showing Ben pictures of Russia for some time as we prepared him for the trip. Most of the pictures were of St. Basils and it's domed roof. As we were walking the other day, Ben spotted a domed roof, pointed and said, "Look Mama, Russia!"

The hotel room is known to Ben as Melanie's house. We tried to correct him at first and reminded him that Logan and Lilly were still at Melanie's house, but that didn't deter Ben. When Mama took a shower the other day, Ben wanted me to get permission to use Melanie's bath tub first. If we go anywhere and he wants to come back to the hotel, he asks to return to Melanie's house. At this point, the name has stuck and we are living in Melanie's house. :)