Eek!!! Screaming!!! (day11)

Oh My!!! Remember the fit Anthony threw yesterday with the stacking cup issue… Well today was so much worse!!!! Oh my word!!! We had to go inside today, because it was raining out… so go figure… Anthony was in a mood! He wanted to crawl where he wasn’t supposed to… on the rug… he doesn’t need rug burns… since he drags his back end… and then he had 2 of those stupid cups in his hands and I don’t know why but he just dropped them and they banged together just right and one rolled away from him…. Oh my word, he started instantly screaming!!! And screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming! We gave the cups back and he just kept screaming and wouldn’t hold on to them… of course this made me mad, and at home I would have taken the cups away and stuck him on the pink rug, but here you have to keep them happy all the time… oh my goodness… We picked him and and he screamed, we laid him down and he screamed… he was a mess, and he was that way the rest of the visit! Just throwing fits left and right!!! We did get rid of the stacking cups and only let him have his teether and the musical toy… well then he would crawl to the edge of the sheet… touch the rug and turn and look at us… and when we grabbed him he would start to fuss… oh brother! We were actually glad for this morning’s visit to be over! That kid is going to be in for a big surprise when he gets home with us… :) Hello pink rug! His caregiver met us at the door to take him away… Most of the caregivers never smile at us for some reason, or at the babies! Maybe it is so they don’t attach to them… who knows!

In case someone doesn’t know about the pink rug… It was in the babies’ room in front of Kimi’s bed, when we were going to get the 2 babies from Kaz that first time… so our nursery was done for a boy and girl… well, we decided to leave it in there because just a few month after Alex came home we would be getting Kimi… well… obviously that has changed now… but we decided that when Alex was screaming for no reason or he was disobedient and such that he had to sit on the rug… when he was really little we would sit in front of him and if he tried to get off we would tell him no and plop him back on it… It worked so well, that now I can tell him to go sit on it and he will run to it, sit down for a minute or so and when he has calmed down he will come out and apologize… Its wonderful really… well a few months ago I said to Alex that we needed to look for a new rug to put there… something orange for Anthony… and Alex got All upset and said, “No!!! It’s my favorite!!!” So the pink rug is still in the boys’ room! Anthony will be using it too when we get home… although I may have to get earplugs until I can leave the room, because he screams, not cries! His screams are so much louder than Alex’s ever were! It’s crazy!

So I was thinking about Anthony and his fits… When he came to us today he had been crying as well… I think I have figured it out… he was taken from playing in there with toys and his roommates… I bet you anything he was mad and throwing a fit, because they had to get him dressed for us!! I am sure that he is the baby in the room with the loudest scream so when he cries, he gets what he wants just so he doesn’t disturb the other babies! I am sure he knows it, and uses it whenever he can! I am sure a couple of you reading our blog can relate… at least I can think of a couple… Hahaha!

Olga our coordinator came with us this morning… it was nice to see her… we haven’t seen her very much this trip… not that we need to but we love her! She is so sweet and smart! She knows a lot more English than she lets on… she is always saying, “sorry, for my English!” but we think she understands and says it pretty good! On the way to the babyhouse this morning , I mentioned how quiet it was outside… not so many cars and people going around… she said that since it was the weekend, that maybe a lot of people were having a rest at their country homes. She told me it is a tradition for families to have little homes in the country and that Misha doesn’t agree that people should rest there… they should take trips to rest other places… as in vacations… like we do! :) I thought that was funny! I asked about how many people have the summer houses… they think probably 50%!!!! That is a lot! I asked if they have to pay taxes and if it is very expensive she said a few hundred… I was thinking Tenge… but maybe she meant dollars! I don’t know… Hopefully tenge! :)

They took us home, where Alex went to bed and I answered some emails and Jerry worked on our next Money School class. We have a class that we are teaching at church about a week or so after we return. We have been doing some preparation for that so we will be ready! It’s going to be really good! I can hardly wait to teach this next class… Our first class was about what the Bible has to say about money and what our attitude toward money should be! It was really good and I hope that we can make a difference!

So Misha picked us up… no Olga… no problem. We went back to the babyhouse and we brought Anthony outside to play… He was still in a naughty mood, because he kept trying to crawl over to the dirty floor, than he would turn and look at us, as he scratched on the board! We brought bubbles today! That was actually really fun! Anthony really like them… he would watch them and if the were close enough he would try to grab them. It was very cute! It was much cooler today since it rained… it is only supposed to be in the 80s this week so far… I hope it stays cool! I am sure the court room is not Air Conditioned… so we will be needing several layers of deodorant!! Haha! Oh dear… Pre-court is tomorrow! So Anthony was just a mess this afternoon too… we don’t really know what he wanted other than to scratch on the dirty boards, but he threw several fits! We didn’t even know what to do with him… if we held him, he screamed, if we did anything else with him he screamed… he seemed to want to lay on his back on the floor… I don’t know, but we were trying to be very serious and straight faced and say “No! that is naughty!” and he would look at us and smile! What a squirt!!! Again we were happy to take him back to his room… I hope he gets some sleep of whatever he needs to be happier tomorrow.

You see, it is not that we don’t want him when he is fussy and screaming, we do very much so, but we do not want him screaming so much that the staff of the babyhouse comes out and gets after us, for whatever reason… we don’t want them thinking he doesn’t like us… he does… and we love him with all of our hearts already! So he is our kid and we are going to take him home! Soon!!!

We had Misha drop us at the Atrium to have dinner at MacJohns. We had the usual… a Frise sandwich for Jerry and a small pizza and coleslaw for Alex and I… we all shared a fries as well… and we tried some cherry juice tonight too… it was really good actually! At most of the restaurants they have Kaz’s version of MTV playing all the time… So Alex of course can hardly keep his eyes off of it… it’s frightening the dancing and partially naked women he has seen on there… But the dancing is what he really likes! He should have some new moves to teach Aunt Bonnie when we get home! I am hoping he forgets all the partially naked people… It is absolutely impossible to keep his eyes off of it… (the Kamelot is the only place without TV on all the time). Then we headed home and walked down the brick walkway from the Atrium toward the main street. Alex likes to chase the pigeons that hang out there…

We had the pictures for the judge printed tonight across the street at Ex-Photo. It only took a few minutes! We printed one each of our house and the baby’s room, then a profile of Anthony, a couple of his whole body and a couple of his face, as well as a family shot. All of those the Judge can put in the file for Anthony!

Tonight we will go over all the stuff they are going to review in pre-court tomorrow so we won’t feel so nervous! Then go to bed early!