Here We Go!!!! (day3)

In the morning we left at nine for the office. We filled out some papers and signed a couple things… they prepared the paperwork for the Medical visit. We also brought the painting with us… but Gulbanu was not there this morning! Bummer. We left it in her office… I would have loved to see the look on her face though when she saw it for the first time! Oh well… Our medical appointment was at 10:30 so after a bit we headed over there… Inside there was another lady that we met, she had been in country for 8 weeks as well and her hubby had had to go home… although he was not able to come back at the end for the final stuff. Their daughter is about 2.5 like Alex. After a little while the nurse called us in… It was the same sweet nurse that weighed and measured Alex almost 2 years ago!!! I told jerry to make sure to get a picture… he did… you can’t see it, because he took it against the bright window... and he didn’t look to see if it came out or not… grrrr…. Naughty Jerry! Anyways… Anthony weighs in at 7.4kg (about 16 lbs) and measures 72cm (just over 28 inches) long!!! He is almost as long as Alex was, but Alex weighed 22 pounds!!! (Alex was not fat at all! He was muscle or something because he was wearing 9-12 month… Anthony is wearing from 3-9 month sizes… his chest is much bigger than his little bahoney!) So we went back to the waiting room… the other mom was there that we met at the airport yesterday… with her husband! So there were 3 families with WPA in there! Soon we went to meet with the doctor… he was funny! He chatted with Alex about being a big boy and “did he like to pee outside in the garden…” I said he wasn’t allowed to pee in the garden! It was a very weird conversation… to me… Jerry said it was a guy thing… Actually Alex had never just peed outside until this trip… Olga had him do it at the babyhouse a couple times… I, was of course horrified! I guess I should have known it was coming, but that is still disgusting! Hahaha! Then Alex and the doctor looked over Anthony’s medical info and the doctor examined Anthony a little… Anthony looks good… of course developmentally behind some, but nothing he won’t catch up on pretty quickly! He has one abnormality… the little piece of skin that goes from the inside of your top lip to your gums… is very short from the end of his lip, you can not lift his lip up hardly at all… he said it should not affect his speech, but this was abnormal… whatever… ok… So then we were done after signing the report. We went back to the waiting room to wait for the blood test…. That was not going to be pretty! Oh dear! However we soon discovered that they aren’t doing that anymore… imagine our relief! Oh my word! We just had to pay and we were done!

We had Sasha take us to the Ramstore for a few things… water, baby food, and Jerry found Peanut Butter there! He has been having the PB cravings… heeheehee! On the way home we discussed what we would like to do tomorrow… our free day. Jerry asked about the lake that is just outside Almaty… Sasha would take us there!!! YAY!!!!!!! Last time we tried to convince our driver to take us there and he kept saying it was too far away! Sasha said it is not too far, but the road is bad and it would take a long time! It might be cold and windy there so bring stuff in case… He showed us the internet café near Mad Murphy’s… we had lunch at Mad Murphy’s… both Boys fell asleep while we were there… We could not get the internet to work there… it was weird… there wasn’t even a wireless signal… who knows! Anyways… we would come back later to the café… but the boys were sleeping so… we went home… put the boys in bed and I started repacking, I decided what we would wear for the next few days and put those out… and then packed everything else away! I really had a lot of space left in the suitcases… after getting rid of the gifts in Uralsk! Cool!

Later Jerry took our computers to the café to get our emails and post to the blog a little… he answered a couple emails and had a burrito at the café! It was literally a café as well as internet! I thought that was funny and clever!! He brought us some onion rings… my favorite! Alex and I had eaten leftover pizza from Mad Murphy’s. By the time Jerry got back Anthony was already in bed, but Alex was up watching some videos until daddy came home! It was a nice little evening… just me and Alex. Jerry was so thoughtful that he brought up a bunch of the different blogs that I look at sometimes for me to read when he got back… including Rumor Queen… the place that keeps all the rumors in check about China adoptions! Ha! We went to bed after while…

We are going to the mountain lake tomorrow!! yeah!