Giggles and Fussing! (day 12)

All in one day!!!!

So today was pretty much like any other day in Uralsk… although we did have a storm here this morning… which cooled things off for a while! Our morning visit was nice a cool outside. Anthony was in a pretty good mood… we did some exercises and played a bunch! We sang songs and he laughed at us… We played with stacking cups and a ball. He really loves knocking over the stacking cups already… maybe he is just trying to grab them and always knocks them over… I don’t know! We let him scoot around a bit on his tummy, but there were no rugs today, since it rained… they took them in, so we didn’t make him scoot too much! We made him sit up a while as usual, I think he is getting better. Today he came to us with a bunch of, what I assume is bug bites… they look almost like pimples! Poor baby! I put some antibiotic ointment on them… His heat rash on his head looked worse today that even before! Ugh! I don’t understand why he has it on his forehead! He has it on his elbow, and under his chin… those I understand… but the forehead…? Unless he sleeps on his face? Maybe? Who knows… that is why we just need to get him!

We came immediately home and Alex slept for over 2 hours! He was tired from last night playing!

Then it was back to the babyhouse for more playing… Today a cat came by and plopped down by us under the awning. She was very sweet and lay there purring… Anthony was obsessed with her though! He HAD to be looking at her! He was driving me nuts! He wouldn’t play with us or anything! So finally I let him pet her! His first cat petting! He of course loved it and so did the kitty! The kitty then thought that was invitation to come on our sheet and she rubbed past us a couple of time and the plopped down in Jerry’s lap! Jerry of course was petting her and she was loving it! Can you tell we miss our kitties!? I sang the entire song “The Ants go Marching” to Anthony and bounced him up and down on my knees at the end of each verse when It says boom, boom, boom! He was laughing so hard, I think he snorted once! As the song went on he laughed harder and harder until Jerry got out the video camera… typically he stopped laughing so hard… we still got some good laughs though… we will try it again tomorrow. It was grand! Somehow we did not take very many pictures today… I guess we were too busy laughing! Toward the end, Anthony was getting tired so I decided to lay him back in my arms and let him calm down… his nap was next so… Well… he did not want that… so he started to fuss, and throw his fit… so I immediately laid him down on the floor next to me, said “no!” and looked away… he wondered what happened but he stopped crying… he tried to roll over and play, but I put my hand on his tummy so he couldn’t and he was kind of mad… but I said let’s try again, so I picked him up and laid him in my arms so he could just relax and suck on his thumb… he started the fit again… so I put him on the floor again, said no! and looked away, while holding my hand on his stomach… he stopped fast! I picked him up again and this time, no fits… so we just snuggled him and I kissed his cheek and he would laugh even with his thumb in his mouth! He likes to touch our faces… we put his hand on our cheeks and say “ mama, dada” so jerry came closer and we put his hand back and forth to our faces saying mama and dada. He just smiles and likes to feel our cheeks. It was so nice to just be still and snuggle with him. Once I make him just calm down he seems to like it, too. He definitely was very sleepy… his beautiful little eyes were drooping! Soon we had to send him away… Alex played with us for a while and then went off to play with Olga and Misha, I guess!

We stopped at the book store for a little bit and found a couple books and some of the new maps of Uralsk! Then we came home, played for a little while and walked to the Dixie Pub for dinner again! The Atrium now has water!!!! Yay!!! We bought a gallon and some cereal and OJ and walked home… stopping by the gym for jerry to schedule a massage for tomorrow!

We spent the rest of the evening at home, working, journaling and reading BabyWise 2!!

Today was the end of Day 12 of Visitation!!! Only 2 more days until we can apply to the court for a court date!!! WooHoo!!!