Paintings Done... (day6)

Anthony is quite the rascal! He woke up squawking at 4,5,6 and finally up for a while at 6:45. Went back to sleep in an hour and slept until 9:15! What a mess! Every time he wakes up, he gives you the dirtiest look! It really is ugly! It is so funny! He frowns at you… and then looks round, as if he is still unsure about it all! He usually ends up smiling soon though!

He definitely has a problem with one of us walking out of the room! If he notices! He is a mess! He will take a big breathe and then just scream bloody murder! Its horrible! He doesn’t do any little fusses… it is all bloody murder!!!! Oh my word! Even if he is just mad that we walked out of the room… as in… no tears, just screaming his eye lids turn bright red!! Oh my!

Today we went to Babyhouse 1! We needed to take a video and some pictures over to the doctor of Jon-Jon walking! They were happy to have the video and would be able to play it on their computer… they had to watch it a little later though so we didn’t get to watch them watch it… Then Alex had to play few minutes on their playground! There was a bunch of kids out there… the director was out there and a few caregivers… They had a photographer and they were taking some pictures. They had a little boy and girl dressed in traditional Kazakh dress. They were getting some special pictures of him and her together. It was so cute!!! The Director said I could take some pictures too! They are definitely much different at that babyhouse!!! There is no way they would let us take pictures at our babyhouse! That was so nice!

Then we stopped for Jerry to buy some stickers that have KZ on them… you put them on the back of your car. They were some really fancy ones! They were oval Kazakh flag blue with some designs… I will try to take a picture of them and post it! I love them! Anthony fell asleep and slept until we got home. Sweet little munchkin!!!

Then it was off to print some papers and deliver a box to someone here in Uralsk… They were not home, so we are going to try again later. :)

We came home and Jerry went and got Pizza from Pizza hot… They are such a mess! Probably 75% of the time we order pizza and it is wrong! But you don’t know until you get home, because it is all tied up… so we usually order 2 pizzas and then save whats left for later… well today Jerry ordered one with just cheese and tomatoes and one with cheese, tomatoes, olives and specifically drew a picture for NO meat! Well guess what… it had meat on it, and this really strong cheese!!!! Oh my word! So… we end up throwing out a lot of stupid pizza around here… its getting annoying.

We spent the afternoon her hanging out… the boys took naps… Alex slept for almost 3 hours! Anthony woke up after an hour and half screaming, of course… when he calmed, we went in an got him… we played a little, but he was still so tired… he kept digging at the back of his head and rubbing his face like crazy and he was fussy… just not content with anything… so we decided to put him back down and let him go back to sleep… well… that didn’t work… he was so mad! It was another screaming frenzy! He never did go back to sleep, but he was pretty tired and he knew he was in trouble… whenever you scold him, he refuses to look at you! He knows!!!! I can’t believe it! Little twerpy! So when he calmed down, jerry brought him out of the bedroom and he looked exhausted from screaming! So we left for Dixie Pub for dinner and then Olga and Misha picked us up to go see the painter! We found the place and went in… Our paintings are awesome! He showed us a bunch of paintings that he has done since we were last here. They were unbelievable… none of them really caught my eye… as in… we have to have it… plus we are getting low on money… :) He likes to paint beautiful women! Although they were incredible… for us not all that appropriate for a houseful of kids… for example… a side view of a woman with a breast made from a pear, with the stem as the nipple… very thought provoking… very creative, but I am not sure I can handle explaining that to my BOYS!!! :) I hope someday he does something great with his work, he really is amazing at what he does!! We left the paintings for him to package so we can get them to Almaty without being damaged, since they are still WET!!!!! Mr. Procrastinator!! When we get to Almaty and they are dry, we will photograph them and share!

Then we came home, tomorrow we are spending some quality time with Erik and Birgit. We are going to do a photo shoot of the boys together! Should be fun!!

Anthony was a bundle of happiness tonight… laying on his back grabbing his toes and saying “aaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!” very loudly! It was a very nice change from all the screaming! We read a book on manners and prayed smooched on him and put him in his bed… he let out one squawk and that was all we heard from him! I hope he sleeps better tonight!