Many of you are asking us when we get to come home… so… we are hoping to be able to come home August 7! The day before our 2 year anniversary of being logged in to China for Kimi! We will definitely have a lot to celebrate that day!!!!
Today was a funky day. We went to the babyhouse and played with Anthony as usual… We brought his bright yellow/orange outfit. He of course looks cute in it! The vitamins we spilled on it did not stain. We sang songs and Anthony lounged a bunch against daddy.
Today was Anthony’s b-day. He turned 7 months today!!!! Holy cow! Before we know it he will be a year!
After our visit we went to the Market. Once inside it had AC, which we were happy for, it was really hot out today! We walked around a bit and then had lunch at the pizza place. There are a lot of Pizza places, come to think of it! The pizza was the thinnest pizza we had ever seen! We actually ordered a second one. Jerry bought Alex a little truck with an excavator on the back… it is all plastic and Alex broke the excavator off the back almost as soon as we got back to the babyhouse! We had even told him multiple times that the excavator DOESN’T come off the back! I was very annoyed with him! He seems to do that with almost every toy! Ahhh!!!!!! He had to use it to dig in the sand box!
Our visit with Anthony was nice. Other than Alex having to go potty in the middle of it all! So Jerry took him in and on the way out our Belgium friends were just coming for the day… they had had pre-court that morning it had lasted an hour! It was fine they said….. but they didn’t get to stay, they took the baby to go get a passport photo taken. When we were leaving, they were just getting back . The exciting news is that they get to have court tomorrow! WOOHOO!!! I hope that trend keeps it up! While jerry was chatting with them I figured out how to make Anthony really laugh! It was so cute! First I played patty cake with him and got him loosened up, then I raised his arms and “tickled” him under his arms!!! He just giggles and giggled!! Bummer that by the time jerry got back Anthony was giggled out! Oh well… we will try again tomorrow! Toward the end he was actually getting fussy… he didn’t really want to play anymore, he just wanted to suck on his thumb, but he didn’t want to just lay back either! Uh! What is that! He would start to scrunch his face up like he was going to cry or something and let out a little fuss! We would just start talking to him… and move him around. What a mess!
We had dinner at the Kamelot again, Salad, soup and noodles for Alex then we went for a walk to the Atrium for water and a couple other things… like coconut puffs.
We didn’t have internet tonight for some reason, so this will have to post tomorrow night.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Playtime!
I am just cute lounging!
Smooches as usual.
I'm thinking...
Checking out the soft blankie.
Common scene... these guys squat to rest around here.
The thinnest pizza on earth!
Smooches as usual.
I'm thinking...
Checking out the soft blankie.
Common scene... these guys squat to rest around here.
The thinnest pizza on earth!Tuesday, July 15, 2008
We're Bonding Away! (day 6)
When we got to the babyhouse the other covered floor play area was already occupied by some of the babies, so we ended up sharing with our Belgian friends. That was kind of nice since their daughter and Alex were playing together… plus we could say stuff to one another once in a while as we were playing… It was fun… I can tell they adore their little guy as much as we adore Anthony! Their baby is about a month older than Anthony, so he is crawling and sitting better than Anthony does. We also heard little Askhat laugh today… they were singing and rowing to “row row row your boat” of course in their language though, and the baby was smiling and just laughing… and they would do it over and over and over, and he just kept on laughing, it was precious! Alex and their daughter Rufan got into a few tussles… usually about sticks today. Silly kiddos!
Anthony was stiff as usual when I grabbed him from Olga. But soon he loosened up again today we had 6-12 month pants (from Gymboree) and he was swimming in them so when he pulled himself forward on the floor they started coming off… so we pulled them off for a while and I massaged his legs while Jerry entertained him with the stacking cups! Anthony seemed a little more comfortable with us today… he was more content sitting still some… we played patty cake while sitting in my lap, facing Jerry… I would clap his hands together and Jerry would grab his toes and kiss them… he was actually laughing out loud!!! Of course after that we had to get the video camera… not sure if we got it or not, but we will keep at it! It was slightly difficult to video him when we needed all of our hands to make him laugh! We manages to balance it on top of the stacking cups for a few minutes!
Anthony already loves mommy’s camera! When I put him down and it down he just starts kicking and pulling himself toward it to grab it! Funny baby! How does he know that is off limits and stuff… the other favorite thing to try to get it the plastic Ziploc bag that we bring his clothes/diapers in everyday! Why!!? What is up with that! Human nature I guess!
It was just a nice morning out there was a little breeze so we were not hot, but the sun was shining, we were in the shade of course under the shelter thing… I put some of the Arbonne diaper rash cream on Anthony’s rash on his head and elbow and the little rash spots on his cheek and arm. We will see if it makes much of a difference. It is supposed to be some amazing stuff… and it is natural, so… we will see. We think the rash is from a hat they probably keep on him a lot inside too… it is all the way around his head just where a hat might go and then a big spot in the back where he probably spends most of his day laying. I can’t wait to get him out of here. Toward the end of the visit Alex came up and wanted to hold Anthony! So he sat down in Jerry’s lap and held him for a couple minutes! It was cute! Alex is so gentle with Anthony so far, I am so glad about that!
I have to say that I really think this bonding process is awesome! It is really nice to get to see him and just play with him… it gets him used to us gradually. I don’t have any experience with the other way yet, where they just hand you your baby and that is it… I know that will be amazing too, and once you meet your child you just want them with you always, but this way is really probably less stressful for the baby! He gets to just be with you and not wonder what is going on next for him… he knows… when he leaves you, he goes for his nap or he gets to eat like it was for Alex. Very scheduled. Its nice for him… By the time we take him he will definitely want to be with us. By the time we had court last time and we did not show up for our afternoon visit, Alex was crying and crying and standing at his crib waiting for us. Which was soooo amazing to hear… Poor Alex, because he wanted us and we were not there, but so awesome that he knew he wanted us! I don’t know if Anthony will get to that, I like to think he might!
Many of you have been asking questions about Anthony, so I will tell you some! He is about to be 7 months old! He was born on Kazakhstan’s Independence day on December 16!! We are excited to have a holiday baby! He weighs about 15-16 pounds as far as we know… we think he is as light as a feather though! Since Alex is about 35! Anthony is still a scrawny little guy with big cheeks! But we think he is perfect!
This morning we went to the babyhouse early so that we could go to Luba’s graduation at 11. However after an hour it had still not started, so Alex and I came home and Jerry stayed to take pictures and check stuff out! Jerry came back about 2pm. Luba came with him and I took some pictures of her diploma! Some of the girls were really dressed up for the graduation! They had on formal gowns or really slinky, sexy little dresses, fancy hi-heels! Some of them had their hair in fancy up-dos and covered in glitter! Some were just in regular dresses and a lot of the boys were just in pants and t-shirt. Some of the guys were in suits, but all the guys really thought they were hot stuff today… you could just tell they had attitude! :) Luba’s group was of course the last group to get their diplomas! We haven’t decided exactly what we are going to give her for a graduation gift… we may not do the computer… we are trying to evaluate her needs still.
Our next visit was great. We played. Alex played with Rufan again… except she was not feeling like sharing her toys and got in trouble… pretty soon she was just crying and crying… well… the Doctor came out and wanted to see what was going on! She told Olga that the kids needed to stop crying out there, because the kids inside could hear them… The Doctor looked upset… I don’t know if she really was or not… We decided that we had to get a picture of Anthony for the painter to paint, so that was the big project today! We decided that we wanted one of him laying down as he is not able to sit or anything else… it shows his abilities now… So we had to put Anthony down and then step back to try to get the shots! Oh! And make him smile! He is so funny, he would grab the sheet and start pulling himself toward us right away, so we had to keep putting him back!
We had my computer sitting there so we could meet with the Artist. He went immediately to the computer and then just laid there with his hands on the outside of the computer… and then just looked around!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!!! He thought he was hot stuff for touching my computer! So we put him back in his spot and moved the computer over by me… he headed toward it! We must have made him tired, because we took a break and Jerry just held him for a little bit… he just relaxed in Jerry’s arms and sucked his thumb! It was so adorable! He looked content and he stayed there for quite a while! Finally I said we needed to try again! So back he went… oh! And we even tried a different outfit… a green one, but we liked the brown shirt best so we went back to that one! Finally we got one to use, and then Anthony could rest… he went back to lounging and checking out daddy’s “pokey” face! It was a nice visit in spite of the crying done by Rufan and Alex!
We met with the Artist! His prices have gone up of course! But we haggled and got a price we could live with! We printed the pictures he will use to paint from! We are having 3 paintings done. One of Anthony, and 2 of the 4 of us… We will of course post about them all later… when we get them!
Then we met our friends from Belgium for dinner at the Kamelot, just 2 blocks from our apartment! Our dinner was good. We had salad, soup, mashed potatoes and broccoli & cauliflower. The salad was awesome, the soup was awesome, the mashed potatoes were great, and the broccoli and cauliflower were soaked in oil! Oh Alex had some noodles… they were fine, but he did not eat many of them. Too excited about playing with Rufan I guess. We talked for a while, and had a nice time chatting… the kids were getting rambunctious, so we decided to go… They have pre-court tomorrow, so it will be interesting to know how it goes. We think we may be eating there for dinner more often, we both decided that we hate cooking in the apartment… it is so hard to get good food to cook at home… now if we weren’t vegetarians it would not be so hard, but the produce seems to be limited and, I don’t know… we are just having a hard time with that. But the salad and soup were so good at Kamelot that we are going to have that again! We are craving vegetables though… we are going to try the market soon and see what we can find there.
We came home and made a few calls to the states for business and to Jerry’s parents… everything is fine there…Now we are going to bed!!!! More playtime tomorrow!
Anthony was stiff as usual when I grabbed him from Olga. But soon he loosened up again today we had 6-12 month pants (from Gymboree) and he was swimming in them so when he pulled himself forward on the floor they started coming off… so we pulled them off for a while and I massaged his legs while Jerry entertained him with the stacking cups! Anthony seemed a little more comfortable with us today… he was more content sitting still some… we played patty cake while sitting in my lap, facing Jerry… I would clap his hands together and Jerry would grab his toes and kiss them… he was actually laughing out loud!!! Of course after that we had to get the video camera… not sure if we got it or not, but we will keep at it! It was slightly difficult to video him when we needed all of our hands to make him laugh! We manages to balance it on top of the stacking cups for a few minutes!
Anthony already loves mommy’s camera! When I put him down and it down he just starts kicking and pulling himself toward it to grab it! Funny baby! How does he know that is off limits and stuff… the other favorite thing to try to get it the plastic Ziploc bag that we bring his clothes/diapers in everyday! Why!!? What is up with that! Human nature I guess!
It was just a nice morning out there was a little breeze so we were not hot, but the sun was shining, we were in the shade of course under the shelter thing… I put some of the Arbonne diaper rash cream on Anthony’s rash on his head and elbow and the little rash spots on his cheek and arm. We will see if it makes much of a difference. It is supposed to be some amazing stuff… and it is natural, so… we will see. We think the rash is from a hat they probably keep on him a lot inside too… it is all the way around his head just where a hat might go and then a big spot in the back where he probably spends most of his day laying. I can’t wait to get him out of here. Toward the end of the visit Alex came up and wanted to hold Anthony! So he sat down in Jerry’s lap and held him for a couple minutes! It was cute! Alex is so gentle with Anthony so far, I am so glad about that!
I have to say that I really think this bonding process is awesome! It is really nice to get to see him and just play with him… it gets him used to us gradually. I don’t have any experience with the other way yet, where they just hand you your baby and that is it… I know that will be amazing too, and once you meet your child you just want them with you always, but this way is really probably less stressful for the baby! He gets to just be with you and not wonder what is going on next for him… he knows… when he leaves you, he goes for his nap or he gets to eat like it was for Alex. Very scheduled. Its nice for him… By the time we take him he will definitely want to be with us. By the time we had court last time and we did not show up for our afternoon visit, Alex was crying and crying and standing at his crib waiting for us. Which was soooo amazing to hear… Poor Alex, because he wanted us and we were not there, but so awesome that he knew he wanted us! I don’t know if Anthony will get to that, I like to think he might!
Many of you have been asking questions about Anthony, so I will tell you some! He is about to be 7 months old! He was born on Kazakhstan’s Independence day on December 16!! We are excited to have a holiday baby! He weighs about 15-16 pounds as far as we know… we think he is as light as a feather though! Since Alex is about 35! Anthony is still a scrawny little guy with big cheeks! But we think he is perfect!
This morning we went to the babyhouse early so that we could go to Luba’s graduation at 11. However after an hour it had still not started, so Alex and I came home and Jerry stayed to take pictures and check stuff out! Jerry came back about 2pm. Luba came with him and I took some pictures of her diploma! Some of the girls were really dressed up for the graduation! They had on formal gowns or really slinky, sexy little dresses, fancy hi-heels! Some of them had their hair in fancy up-dos and covered in glitter! Some were just in regular dresses and a lot of the boys were just in pants and t-shirt. Some of the guys were in suits, but all the guys really thought they were hot stuff today… you could just tell they had attitude! :) Luba’s group was of course the last group to get their diplomas! We haven’t decided exactly what we are going to give her for a graduation gift… we may not do the computer… we are trying to evaluate her needs still.
Our next visit was great. We played. Alex played with Rufan again… except she was not feeling like sharing her toys and got in trouble… pretty soon she was just crying and crying… well… the Doctor came out and wanted to see what was going on! She told Olga that the kids needed to stop crying out there, because the kids inside could hear them… The Doctor looked upset… I don’t know if she really was or not… We decided that we had to get a picture of Anthony for the painter to paint, so that was the big project today! We decided that we wanted one of him laying down as he is not able to sit or anything else… it shows his abilities now… So we had to put Anthony down and then step back to try to get the shots! Oh! And make him smile! He is so funny, he would grab the sheet and start pulling himself toward us right away, so we had to keep putting him back!
We had my computer sitting there so we could meet with the Artist. He went immediately to the computer and then just laid there with his hands on the outside of the computer… and then just looked around!!!! I couldn’t believe it!!!! He thought he was hot stuff for touching my computer! So we put him back in his spot and moved the computer over by me… he headed toward it! We must have made him tired, because we took a break and Jerry just held him for a little bit… he just relaxed in Jerry’s arms and sucked his thumb! It was so adorable! He looked content and he stayed there for quite a while! Finally I said we needed to try again! So back he went… oh! And we even tried a different outfit… a green one, but we liked the brown shirt best so we went back to that one! Finally we got one to use, and then Anthony could rest… he went back to lounging and checking out daddy’s “pokey” face! It was a nice visit in spite of the crying done by Rufan and Alex!
We met with the Artist! His prices have gone up of course! But we haggled and got a price we could live with! We printed the pictures he will use to paint from! We are having 3 paintings done. One of Anthony, and 2 of the 4 of us… We will of course post about them all later… when we get them!
Then we met our friends from Belgium for dinner at the Kamelot, just 2 blocks from our apartment! Our dinner was good. We had salad, soup, mashed potatoes and broccoli & cauliflower. The salad was awesome, the soup was awesome, the mashed potatoes were great, and the broccoli and cauliflower were soaked in oil! Oh Alex had some noodles… they were fine, but he did not eat many of them. Too excited about playing with Rufan I guess. We talked for a while, and had a nice time chatting… the kids were getting rambunctious, so we decided to go… They have pre-court tomorrow, so it will be interesting to know how it goes. We think we may be eating there for dinner more often, we both decided that we hate cooking in the apartment… it is so hard to get good food to cook at home… now if we weren’t vegetarians it would not be so hard, but the produce seems to be limited and, I don’t know… we are just having a hard time with that. But the salad and soup were so good at Kamelot that we are going to have that again! We are craving vegetables though… we are going to try the market soon and see what we can find there.
We came home and made a few calls to the states for business and to Jerry’s parents… everything is fine there…Now we are going to bed!!!! More playtime tomorrow!
Pictures Again!!!!?
Daddy's kneeding my tummy... I spit on him a little bit later, a combination of vitamins and milk... mmmmm.... yummy! 
The boys!
This is Luba at her graduation!!!
The other outfit... which was rediculous large on him...
Resting from all the hard work...
Just being plain stinkin' CUTE!!!
Checking out the texture on daddy's face!
Tech-y boy...
Checking out the texture on daddy's face!
Tech-y boy...
Monday, July 14, 2008
Family Photo Shoot! (day 5)
This morning, I felt better, still afraid to eat though, so we slept in, and then went to the babyhouse. Yesterday, Olga T. brought sour cherries for Alex, today she brought green and red gooseberries and red, white and black currants!
Naturally Alex acts as if he is starved… silly boy. We had our visit outside… our main objective today was to get a family portrait to use for the guy that we are going to have paint our family picture, like we did last time with Alex. So we were all kind of coordinated in blue and brown. We all looked cute! But we were a mess! Jerry and I were perfect, almost, but those boys!!! Oh my! Alex was saying Cheese like a crazy person… Anthony was trying to figure out what was going on, and since he can’t sit up by himself, so one of us has to hold him so he can be seen, just right! Anthony wants to clasp his hands in front of his face of course, so we have to hold those too! Then there is Alex… oh boy! he is a mess… he is all over the place his head goes every direction and he squints his eyes, and that is “smiling!” It was completely comical, we took about 30 of those… well Olga T. did, and then we gave up, we said if there was a couple good ones we could give them both to him and he could make us look good with his paint brush, of course we will have him leave off Alex’s big cheek scrape! Who knows, maybe the artist can even put a smile on Anthony’s face. We meet with him tomorrow and see what we can come up with! We are hoping to go to his studio too and see what he has there that he has painted recently. We are excited about seeing him again and showing him the paintings he did last time and how they are framed and hanging in our house! He will love them I am sure… If you want to see them check out Alex’s blog April 25 posting. http://cookfamilyadventuresinkaz.blogspot.com They are awesome!
So besides that we tried to sneak pictures of the other children on the playground from the babyhouse. But there were lots of caregivers out there though and we didn’t want to get in trouble… they don’t seem to understand the importance of seeing the other children that were in the babyhouse with Anthony. We have a few from our times here for Alex and we love to look at the other kids from his group and we have even located one of the families that adopted one of the children from those pictures!! I doubt that we will get any of Anthony’s group, since they are the babies and don’t get to come outside as much that I know of! And we will probably not get to go inside his room! Which makes me sad, but we will try to get pictures even if Olga just can take my camera in and snap some shots! We’ll see!
Ok… so back to our visit. Remember Alex’s favorite caregiver? Well, she was outside today with some babies, so we thought we would try to get some new pictures of her with Alex. When we adopted Alex we took a bunch of pictures with her and gave her several… she still has them! She always just watches Alex, and wants to touch him… You can tell that she really loves him! In the groups at the babyhouse the caregivers generally divide up the kids and each one’s kids call her something special like momma, but it wasn’t momma… I don’t remember what they said. Alex was one of hers! And she truly loves him, so when she signed the letter she wrote to him when we were here for him, she signed it “your Kazakh momma” It was nice to take some photos! Alex was all over the place though! Many of the photos are blurred of him, because he is a worm!!! She of course looks beautiful and has the same high cheek bones as Alex. She will always be part of our family! Alex even gave her a kiss on the cheek, it was precious!
After all the excitement of picture taking, I just held Anthony for a while… we of course had to play patty cake a little! And we try to sing other little songs to him that we can remember! He is so sweet, he just wants to look at us and definitely wants me to hold him… if I would hand him to Jerry, he would turn and make sure I was still there! Sadly the time went so fast! Olga took him back inside to eat lunch, I suppose!
We went to the Kid’s Café today! Jerry has been waiting all week to go there… they had his favorite salad! And Peirogis! Olga went with us, so we ordered the right thing! But she had to go to church for a friend that died. That was kind of sad! It was a boyfriend from when she was younger! Ugh!
After we ate, we let Alex play a little in the play area. They had those little balls in a pool-like thing. And a rocker and some other little stuff. Not really a whole lot, but Alex was ok with it. After he was played out we walked back to the apartment, where we discovered “Pizza Hot” a pizza place whose sign seemed to say it was open 24 hours!!? Is that right!? Funny! Maybe that means until midnight… not sure, we will have to check in the apartment tip book! Maybe we will have pizza soon. By the time we got back to the apartment we only had 15 minutes until Misha, our driver and Olga (T=translator) picked us up again!
At the babyhouse we waited for baby to come out to us, and chatted with our new friends from Europe. I introduced Anthony to them and they got a little video of the boys together, since they are in the same group right now! We will have to get some pictures together before we all part ways! The boys will someday cherish those photos! Alex ran off to the playground that WPA put in some years ago with their daughter to play. Apparently they were being dare devils and bonked heads a time or two and were sliding down the wrong things, but in the end… they were just fine!
Anthony was just snuggly and we played stuff with him and massaged his legs and arms and tried to make him giggle. I found that if I pretended to nibble on the inside of his arm he would actually kind of giggle!!! It was so cute! We laid down on the floor and played with toys. I put him down and then moved so I could lie down in front of him so I could see him at his eye level. He nearly panicked… it was hilarious… he turned and started coming toward me. I stopped him with all the toys until I was on my tummy too… then he was fine for a while… but pretty soon he was all the ways over there snuggled to my arm! He was quite tired; he nearly fell asleep a couple times. I can’t wait to hold him in my arms to fall asleep. Although if he is anything like Alex it will be a struggle! I hope not! He was so snuggly though! He does not like to lay in your arms on his back though! Maybe because he might fall asleep… We shall see!
On our way home we were stopped by the police! They said that we should be wearing our seatbelts in the back seat and that Misha should have stopped in the middle of the intersection to allow a worker cross the street! WHAT!!!!!!! The worker wasn’t even crossing the street yet!!!! And the seatbelts!!!!!? Are you kidding me!!!!!? What a mess! Poor Misha! He spent about a half hour in the police car getting his ticket! Here if you get a ticket they keep your license! You have to go into the police office the next day to find out your ticket amount and then you can get your license back! I could not believe it!!! Seatbelts!!!!!!?? Oh whatever!!
We went for a walk when we got home, to find the garbage cans and then to the bakery to find something for dinner… we found a box of rice with some seasonings and added a can of peas. It was fine. And then we sampled a few different bakery sweets… sadly we didn’t like all of them… so some of them will go to waste. At least they won’t go to our waist… heeheehee! After dinner, jerry napped, I answered email and alex went to bed. Then we checked out the economic crisis going on at home with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. What a mess!
Naturally Alex acts as if he is starved… silly boy. We had our visit outside… our main objective today was to get a family portrait to use for the guy that we are going to have paint our family picture, like we did last time with Alex. So we were all kind of coordinated in blue and brown. We all looked cute! But we were a mess! Jerry and I were perfect, almost, but those boys!!! Oh my! Alex was saying Cheese like a crazy person… Anthony was trying to figure out what was going on, and since he can’t sit up by himself, so one of us has to hold him so he can be seen, just right! Anthony wants to clasp his hands in front of his face of course, so we have to hold those too! Then there is Alex… oh boy! he is a mess… he is all over the place his head goes every direction and he squints his eyes, and that is “smiling!” It was completely comical, we took about 30 of those… well Olga T. did, and then we gave up, we said if there was a couple good ones we could give them both to him and he could make us look good with his paint brush, of course we will have him leave off Alex’s big cheek scrape! Who knows, maybe the artist can even put a smile on Anthony’s face. We meet with him tomorrow and see what we can come up with! We are hoping to go to his studio too and see what he has there that he has painted recently. We are excited about seeing him again and showing him the paintings he did last time and how they are framed and hanging in our house! He will love them I am sure… If you want to see them check out Alex’s blog April 25 posting. http://cookfamilyadventuresinkaz.blogspot.com They are awesome!
So besides that we tried to sneak pictures of the other children on the playground from the babyhouse. But there were lots of caregivers out there though and we didn’t want to get in trouble… they don’t seem to understand the importance of seeing the other children that were in the babyhouse with Anthony. We have a few from our times here for Alex and we love to look at the other kids from his group and we have even located one of the families that adopted one of the children from those pictures!! I doubt that we will get any of Anthony’s group, since they are the babies and don’t get to come outside as much that I know of! And we will probably not get to go inside his room! Which makes me sad, but we will try to get pictures even if Olga just can take my camera in and snap some shots! We’ll see!
Ok… so back to our visit. Remember Alex’s favorite caregiver? Well, she was outside today with some babies, so we thought we would try to get some new pictures of her with Alex. When we adopted Alex we took a bunch of pictures with her and gave her several… she still has them! She always just watches Alex, and wants to touch him… You can tell that she really loves him! In the groups at the babyhouse the caregivers generally divide up the kids and each one’s kids call her something special like momma, but it wasn’t momma… I don’t remember what they said. Alex was one of hers! And she truly loves him, so when she signed the letter she wrote to him when we were here for him, she signed it “your Kazakh momma” It was nice to take some photos! Alex was all over the place though! Many of the photos are blurred of him, because he is a worm!!! She of course looks beautiful and has the same high cheek bones as Alex. She will always be part of our family! Alex even gave her a kiss on the cheek, it was precious!
After all the excitement of picture taking, I just held Anthony for a while… we of course had to play patty cake a little! And we try to sing other little songs to him that we can remember! He is so sweet, he just wants to look at us and definitely wants me to hold him… if I would hand him to Jerry, he would turn and make sure I was still there! Sadly the time went so fast! Olga took him back inside to eat lunch, I suppose!
We went to the Kid’s Café today! Jerry has been waiting all week to go there… they had his favorite salad! And Peirogis! Olga went with us, so we ordered the right thing! But she had to go to church for a friend that died. That was kind of sad! It was a boyfriend from when she was younger! Ugh!
After we ate, we let Alex play a little in the play area. They had those little balls in a pool-like thing. And a rocker and some other little stuff. Not really a whole lot, but Alex was ok with it. After he was played out we walked back to the apartment, where we discovered “Pizza Hot” a pizza place whose sign seemed to say it was open 24 hours!!? Is that right!? Funny! Maybe that means until midnight… not sure, we will have to check in the apartment tip book! Maybe we will have pizza soon. By the time we got back to the apartment we only had 15 minutes until Misha, our driver and Olga (T=translator) picked us up again!
At the babyhouse we waited for baby to come out to us, and chatted with our new friends from Europe. I introduced Anthony to them and they got a little video of the boys together, since they are in the same group right now! We will have to get some pictures together before we all part ways! The boys will someday cherish those photos! Alex ran off to the playground that WPA put in some years ago with their daughter to play. Apparently they were being dare devils and bonked heads a time or two and were sliding down the wrong things, but in the end… they were just fine!
Anthony was just snuggly and we played stuff with him and massaged his legs and arms and tried to make him giggle. I found that if I pretended to nibble on the inside of his arm he would actually kind of giggle!!! It was so cute! We laid down on the floor and played with toys. I put him down and then moved so I could lie down in front of him so I could see him at his eye level. He nearly panicked… it was hilarious… he turned and started coming toward me. I stopped him with all the toys until I was on my tummy too… then he was fine for a while… but pretty soon he was all the ways over there snuggled to my arm! He was quite tired; he nearly fell asleep a couple times. I can’t wait to hold him in my arms to fall asleep. Although if he is anything like Alex it will be a struggle! I hope not! He was so snuggly though! He does not like to lay in your arms on his back though! Maybe because he might fall asleep… We shall see!
On our way home we were stopped by the police! They said that we should be wearing our seatbelts in the back seat and that Misha should have stopped in the middle of the intersection to allow a worker cross the street! WHAT!!!!!!! The worker wasn’t even crossing the street yet!!!! And the seatbelts!!!!!? Are you kidding me!!!!!? What a mess! Poor Misha! He spent about a half hour in the police car getting his ticket! Here if you get a ticket they keep your license! You have to go into the police office the next day to find out your ticket amount and then you can get your license back! I could not believe it!!! Seatbelts!!!!!!?? Oh whatever!!
We went for a walk when we got home, to find the garbage cans and then to the bakery to find something for dinner… we found a box of rice with some seasonings and added a can of peas. It was fine. And then we sampled a few different bakery sweets… sadly we didn’t like all of them… so some of them will go to waste. At least they won’t go to our waist… heeheehee! After dinner, jerry napped, I answered email and alex went to bed. Then we checked out the economic crisis going on at home with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. What a mess!
Looks and Goofballs!
Alex and his Special Caregiver! Of course Alex is saying Cheese!!! like crazy!
You can just tell that she loves him!
Kissing his "Kazakh" momma!
ok... this will be fun, lets get a family picture for the Artist to paint! Alex was saying "Cheese" as loud as possible, so naturally Anthony wants to look at him... crazy big brother!
A helpful word...
Oh! Come on....!
I can see it now and forever… Alex is the goofball and Anthony is looking at him, thinking “what in the world?!”
"Anthony look this way...!" Alex was actually trying to turn his head for him!!!
ok... this will be fun, lets get a family picture for the Artist to paint! Alex was saying "Cheese" as loud as possible, so naturally Anthony wants to look at him... crazy big brother!
A helpful word...
Oh! Come on....!
I can see it now and forever… Alex is the goofball and Anthony is looking at him, thinking “what in the world?!”
"Anthony look this way...!" Alex was actually trying to turn his head for him!!!
This is how I like to spend quite a bit of time... 
This is the "covered floor" I mention that we have our visits in outside.
Think he could "cheese" any harder!!!?
These are the "sensible" walking shoes! everyone else wears tall spiky, or wedged heels! This is what Luba and her friend wear! 
This is the "covered floor" I mention that we have our visits in outside.
Think he could "cheese" any harder!!!?
These are the "sensible" walking shoes! everyone else wears tall spiky, or wedged heels! This is what Luba and her friend wear! Sunday, July 13, 2008
Boo-boos (day 4)
This morning, Jerry woke me up at about 7, to try his grapefruit he bought at the store the other day! Oh my! He had hardly slept again, because he slept all day yesterday! I have to admit the grapefruit was really good (I don’t care for regular grapefruit, too sour!) this one was not bitter… it was tangy, but sweet… So I had a few bites! An hour later I felt so sick to my stomach I wanted to throw up! I showered anyways, but felt so bad that I already knew that I could not go to the babyhouse this morning! I couldn’t even stand up! So I lay back down, but soon I did throw up for a couple hours… it was horrible and the only thing in my stomach was that stupid grapefruit! Ugh! By the time the boys came home I was sleeping peacefully and my stomach was no longer churning! Jerry woke me up at 2:30 and I felt good enough to go to the babyhouse… still exhausted though.
Jerry said Anthony was looking for me the whole visit… I am not sure how he knows that, but I like it. Alex fell apparently while he was running and playing and has a big scrape on his cheek right under his right eye. Jerry put the vick's on it right away so I am sure it looks better than it would have.I couldn’t seem to find our Neosporin before we left for Kaz so I will ask Olga to stop at a pharmacy on the way home later.
So we went to get Anthony, inside it was pure quiet it there! I snatched him out of Olga’s hands as soon as I saw him! He is so sweet! He snuggled down on my shoulder and we went outside! We put our sheet down under the roof by the sand box. There was another couple under the other one near us… after a few minutes we discovered it was 2 ladies… they were both fairly young, but one looked somewhat younger than the other… I decided it was a girl visiting her baby in the babyhouse, with maybe her older sister or her mother… I liked that story. :) haha! Anthony was quite happy with me just holding him… I was so exhausted though that I laid him down and played patty cake some more… he really just likes that! He gets big smiles! It is so cute… he even puts his hands out straight for me to clap them for him… he has long little fingers, too! What I am so happy to see is him uncurling those little fingers! His arms are still very stiff when I do the motions with him… Anthony has a little rash on his head… almost blister-like, looks like a poison ivy rash, you know? Wonder what it is… Not really much excitement today, Anthony just gets cuter and more precious every day, that’s all! It will be fun to see what he is like in another week!
On the way home we topped and picked up some antibiotic for Alex’s cheek… almost as soon as I put it on, his cheek looked a lot better! That was some cool stuff! I may have to bring some of that home with us! If the babyhouse doesn’t have some of that, we will have to get them some! Good stuff! We checked out the gym near our apartment that we had read you can get a membership for a month and then you can get massages and such… Jerry mostly wants the massages, but the smallest membership you could get was 3 months and it was about $100 a month! But a massage is only about $12 for an hour at the cheapest. So you can get massages without a membership, so I am guessing that is what Jerry will be doing sometime soon!
We are spending the evening at home again… I cannot even think of eating anything, just the thought makes my stomach turn, so Jerry and Alex are on their own tonight. Luba will come over later too.
More tomorrow!
Jerry said Anthony was looking for me the whole visit… I am not sure how he knows that, but I like it. Alex fell apparently while he was running and playing and has a big scrape on his cheek right under his right eye. Jerry put the vick's on it right away so I am sure it looks better than it would have.I couldn’t seem to find our Neosporin before we left for Kaz so I will ask Olga to stop at a pharmacy on the way home later.
So we went to get Anthony, inside it was pure quiet it there! I snatched him out of Olga’s hands as soon as I saw him! He is so sweet! He snuggled down on my shoulder and we went outside! We put our sheet down under the roof by the sand box. There was another couple under the other one near us… after a few minutes we discovered it was 2 ladies… they were both fairly young, but one looked somewhat younger than the other… I decided it was a girl visiting her baby in the babyhouse, with maybe her older sister or her mother… I liked that story. :) haha! Anthony was quite happy with me just holding him… I was so exhausted though that I laid him down and played patty cake some more… he really just likes that! He gets big smiles! It is so cute… he even puts his hands out straight for me to clap them for him… he has long little fingers, too! What I am so happy to see is him uncurling those little fingers! His arms are still very stiff when I do the motions with him… Anthony has a little rash on his head… almost blister-like, looks like a poison ivy rash, you know? Wonder what it is… Not really much excitement today, Anthony just gets cuter and more precious every day, that’s all! It will be fun to see what he is like in another week!
On the way home we topped and picked up some antibiotic for Alex’s cheek… almost as soon as I put it on, his cheek looked a lot better! That was some cool stuff! I may have to bring some of that home with us! If the babyhouse doesn’t have some of that, we will have to get them some! Good stuff! We checked out the gym near our apartment that we had read you can get a membership for a month and then you can get massages and such… Jerry mostly wants the massages, but the smallest membership you could get was 3 months and it was about $100 a month! But a massage is only about $12 for an hour at the cheapest. So you can get massages without a membership, so I am guessing that is what Jerry will be doing sometime soon!
We are spending the evening at home again… I cannot even think of eating anything, just the thought makes my stomach turn, so Jerry and Alex are on their own tonight. Luba will come over later too.
More tomorrow!
A Slow Day...
Jerry had both boys in his lap after Alex's encounter with the piece of steel on his cheek! Jerry said he cried and carried on for about a half an hour! Oh dear!
More hand clasping...
This was the result after mommy came to visit today! He was a happy boy! It makes me happy too, because Alex was and still is, a daddy's boy!
Playing patty cake!
My Kazakh boys!
Alex's fall... good thing for vick's vapor rub and antibiotics!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Teethers and Trucks! (day 3)
Day 3! I can’t even believe we are on day 3 already!
Last night Jerry was up almost all night… let’s just say he must have eaten something that did NOT agree with him!! Goodness! The only thing we can think of are some raspberries that we bought off a little grandma yesterday… but Alex ate more than Jerry did… of course Alex “tossed his cookies” later in the evening… and nothing from him since… who knows! I am fine! We travel a lot, too so we were surprised by this attack! Jerry is feeling much better tonight, but has been in bed since about 5! It’s currently about 9:30pm!
At about 5 this morning we had a huge thunderstorm! And then it rained until probably 10:30! So it was wet and cloudy and COOL outside!!! I liked the cool part! We were both very tired this morning when we got up, so none of us showered, we just went to the babyhouse! So there might not be many pictures of us! :)
We went inside this morning… it was still so hot in the room! we were sweating! We opened the window when we first came in but had to shut the door so there wasn’t a “draft.” They seem to believe that a wind will make a baby sick… Anyways… we played some, but Anthony just wanted me to hold him today, although he is hard to hold because he is so stiff and wiggles a lot like he is uncomfortable. But I figured out how to hold him still… I put him up to my shoulder so he looks behind me and I hold my head down against his, then I just pat him or move constantly… (sound familiar, Heather?) The moving doesn’t have to be too much, but just move, so I rock side to side or pat him on the bahoney. He just holds on and looks around… sometimes he sounds like he is trying to suck on my shirt… He wants to suck a lot! Poor guy! Everytime I would put him down so he could graba toy or what ever… he would immediately turn around and look for me! That felt so nice! This tiny little baby, doesn’t even know me and he wants ME!! He would put his hands out to me… he just wanted me to hold him! That was great. And since Jerry wasn’t feeling too great, he didn’t argue. He watched and rested. Playing a little and taking video of Anthony pulling himself across the floor at record speed! So cute! I put him on the other side of the sheet and then laid down in front of him and coaxed him to come to me… no problem! He came right up to my face and snuggled into my neck! Rubbing his little eyes and nose! He was quite tired this morning! I wish I know what was going on in his room! Maybe we are there at his naptime… not sure. Soon I will send the book in with all the questions! Then I will know a ton more! Remember the little truck that Alex got out while we were waiting to meet Anthony? Well.. they have several of them in there, so Alex got out 2 of them today and said one was for Anthony and the other for him! It was very precious, to see him thinking of Anthony! That was neat! So we put Anthony on it… he can’t sit up and can hardly hold his head up when we sit him up, but he grabbed onto that steering wheel and held on! There was a little horn on it too, so I honked that and then he tried to honk it, but can’t hold himself up so it didn’t work too well. We sang more patty cake, and he tries to clap! He opens his hands today to clap! Yeah!!! He is still very stiff in his arms… his legs are already a lot better! Those crazy arms though… Alex had the same issues! Anthony just clamps his hands together though and holds them there, it is hard to actually get them apart! I am afraid I am going to hurt him trying to separate his hands sometimes! But I do see some difference already, so we will keep plugging away on that! Today he started trying to jump up and down when I tried to stand him up! I think he was trying to imitate what we did the other day, when we lifted him up, because he was smiling and almost laughing… a little noise coming out. But he is so totally quiet otherwise, other than his loud breathing! I can’t wait to get him off of the dairy and see if that is what makes him breath like that! Oh! Back to the truck that you sit on… it is a “4WD” little truck… fitting, huh? When I took him off, and laid him on the floor he pulled himself back over there so fast I was surprised, and when he got there he kept pulling to it! He had his little face smashed against the wheel trying to get back on it! It was funny! We just had to put him back on it for a little longer! Sweet little baby! If he is still enjoying jumping, when we get home I think I am going to buy one of those jumper things that you hang in the doorway? I think he would really like that! We didn’t really do much else in there this morning, he was pretty clingy and the time goes so fast! He loves being kissed on… we saw his dimples even more today! Alex played outside for a bit and then came in with his bahoney all dirty, I assume he went down the slide or something, so I made him take off his shorts and run around the play-room in his undies the rest of the meeting! He really is very nice and gentle with Anthony so far! He gave him a big smooch on the upper lip before we sent Anthony back, I have to get a picture of that soon, it is so precious, I can hardly believe it! More on Anthony’s sucking desires… he is trying to suck on everything today! His hands, thumb, finger, my shirt and my finger! I was really scared to let my finger anywhere near his mouth after Alex – the biter! But I wanted to check out his gums and feel for teeth! He clamped down and sucked so hard on my finger, I thought I wouldn’t be able to get it out! Ha! He let go though as soon as he realized there was no food coming out! It probably tasted like wipes too, since I had had those out earlier for Alex’s nose! Yucky! Anthony did not bite at all! He just was hungry I think after all it was almost noon!!
We came straight home and Jerry and Alex went to bed! Olga(t) said if we wanted we could visit Anthony an hour later today since it was the weekend and things are more relaxed there on the weekend… that way Alex could get in a longer nap! That was wonderful, she also gave me a little bottle of hydrogen peroxide and said the doctor said that would help Alex’s nose bleed when is starts again. Just use a q-tip and put some peroxide up in his nostril… interesting. We might just have to try it! She brought Alex some sour cherries today! WOW they are sour!!! Goodness! Alex doesn’t seem to care so much though! He ate a bunch of them for lunch! Yesterday she brought him apricots from her trees. I did not eat one, but Alex sure enjoyed them! Apparently she has a “summer home” it is nothing more than a little “house” without running water or anything fancy… all the old furniture and stuff goes there and they have a little land, this is where they grow as much as they can in the summer months. They don’t really stay there most of the time… I think they just go there to grow stuff and take care of a garden and fruit trees. Her place is on a river bank so they swim in it some. I think the whole concept is neat, really. But then this is garden maniac talking over here! I am not sure about the no electricity and running water part, but I like the gardening part!
So we left for the BH at 2:45 today instead of 1:45, we waited for Anthony to come out… we went outside this afternoon, it was much more comfortable out there! Alex went off to play with Olga and the little girl of the other visiting family! I think they were playing in the sand! He came to “visit” us every once in a while. Anthony just wanted to be held again! Woohoo! We brought the stacking cups today, but those are not that interesting to him yet… what was of interest is the teether that we bought at Walmart for Alex that vibrates when you bite down on it! Oh my! He loves that thing! We spent a lot of time holding it in his mouth and because he can’t quite figure out how to bite down hard enough, we pinch it for him so it vibrates and he just sits there perfectly still, drooling! Poor kid! Those crazy teeth!
Alex is finally warming up to Misha! I don’t know why it is taking so long… usually he is all over the guys! Especially if they are willing to play with him! But today he finally wanted to play with Misha! So later when he was rude again to Misha and I scolded him, Misha had walked away, Alex went running after him and grabbed his hand! I don’t know what has gotten into him! Misha even tickles him and chases him, which usually makes you Alex’s best friend, who knows! It really is annoying and embarrassing though. Alex really is a nice and very friendly kid!
We came home and Jerry checked email, Alex watched a couple veggie-tales, I took a small nap. Then Alex and I ate some noodles and jerry went to bed… that is it! Now they are both sleeping and I am still typing, I also want to finish Anthony’s book for the caregivers and doctors to write in. I might just go to bed!
Last night Jerry was up almost all night… let’s just say he must have eaten something that did NOT agree with him!! Goodness! The only thing we can think of are some raspberries that we bought off a little grandma yesterday… but Alex ate more than Jerry did… of course Alex “tossed his cookies” later in the evening… and nothing from him since… who knows! I am fine! We travel a lot, too so we were surprised by this attack! Jerry is feeling much better tonight, but has been in bed since about 5! It’s currently about 9:30pm!
At about 5 this morning we had a huge thunderstorm! And then it rained until probably 10:30! So it was wet and cloudy and COOL outside!!! I liked the cool part! We were both very tired this morning when we got up, so none of us showered, we just went to the babyhouse! So there might not be many pictures of us! :)
We went inside this morning… it was still so hot in the room! we were sweating! We opened the window when we first came in but had to shut the door so there wasn’t a “draft.” They seem to believe that a wind will make a baby sick… Anyways… we played some, but Anthony just wanted me to hold him today, although he is hard to hold because he is so stiff and wiggles a lot like he is uncomfortable. But I figured out how to hold him still… I put him up to my shoulder so he looks behind me and I hold my head down against his, then I just pat him or move constantly… (sound familiar, Heather?) The moving doesn’t have to be too much, but just move, so I rock side to side or pat him on the bahoney. He just holds on and looks around… sometimes he sounds like he is trying to suck on my shirt… He wants to suck a lot! Poor guy! Everytime I would put him down so he could graba toy or what ever… he would immediately turn around and look for me! That felt so nice! This tiny little baby, doesn’t even know me and he wants ME!! He would put his hands out to me… he just wanted me to hold him! That was great. And since Jerry wasn’t feeling too great, he didn’t argue. He watched and rested. Playing a little and taking video of Anthony pulling himself across the floor at record speed! So cute! I put him on the other side of the sheet and then laid down in front of him and coaxed him to come to me… no problem! He came right up to my face and snuggled into my neck! Rubbing his little eyes and nose! He was quite tired this morning! I wish I know what was going on in his room! Maybe we are there at his naptime… not sure. Soon I will send the book in with all the questions! Then I will know a ton more! Remember the little truck that Alex got out while we were waiting to meet Anthony? Well.. they have several of them in there, so Alex got out 2 of them today and said one was for Anthony and the other for him! It was very precious, to see him thinking of Anthony! That was neat! So we put Anthony on it… he can’t sit up and can hardly hold his head up when we sit him up, but he grabbed onto that steering wheel and held on! There was a little horn on it too, so I honked that and then he tried to honk it, but can’t hold himself up so it didn’t work too well. We sang more patty cake, and he tries to clap! He opens his hands today to clap! Yeah!!! He is still very stiff in his arms… his legs are already a lot better! Those crazy arms though… Alex had the same issues! Anthony just clamps his hands together though and holds them there, it is hard to actually get them apart! I am afraid I am going to hurt him trying to separate his hands sometimes! But I do see some difference already, so we will keep plugging away on that! Today he started trying to jump up and down when I tried to stand him up! I think he was trying to imitate what we did the other day, when we lifted him up, because he was smiling and almost laughing… a little noise coming out. But he is so totally quiet otherwise, other than his loud breathing! I can’t wait to get him off of the dairy and see if that is what makes him breath like that! Oh! Back to the truck that you sit on… it is a “4WD” little truck… fitting, huh? When I took him off, and laid him on the floor he pulled himself back over there so fast I was surprised, and when he got there he kept pulling to it! He had his little face smashed against the wheel trying to get back on it! It was funny! We just had to put him back on it for a little longer! Sweet little baby! If he is still enjoying jumping, when we get home I think I am going to buy one of those jumper things that you hang in the doorway? I think he would really like that! We didn’t really do much else in there this morning, he was pretty clingy and the time goes so fast! He loves being kissed on… we saw his dimples even more today! Alex played outside for a bit and then came in with his bahoney all dirty, I assume he went down the slide or something, so I made him take off his shorts and run around the play-room in his undies the rest of the meeting! He really is very nice and gentle with Anthony so far! He gave him a big smooch on the upper lip before we sent Anthony back, I have to get a picture of that soon, it is so precious, I can hardly believe it! More on Anthony’s sucking desires… he is trying to suck on everything today! His hands, thumb, finger, my shirt and my finger! I was really scared to let my finger anywhere near his mouth after Alex – the biter! But I wanted to check out his gums and feel for teeth! He clamped down and sucked so hard on my finger, I thought I wouldn’t be able to get it out! Ha! He let go though as soon as he realized there was no food coming out! It probably tasted like wipes too, since I had had those out earlier for Alex’s nose! Yucky! Anthony did not bite at all! He just was hungry I think after all it was almost noon!!
We came straight home and Jerry and Alex went to bed! Olga(t) said if we wanted we could visit Anthony an hour later today since it was the weekend and things are more relaxed there on the weekend… that way Alex could get in a longer nap! That was wonderful, she also gave me a little bottle of hydrogen peroxide and said the doctor said that would help Alex’s nose bleed when is starts again. Just use a q-tip and put some peroxide up in his nostril… interesting. We might just have to try it! She brought Alex some sour cherries today! WOW they are sour!!! Goodness! Alex doesn’t seem to care so much though! He ate a bunch of them for lunch! Yesterday she brought him apricots from her trees. I did not eat one, but Alex sure enjoyed them! Apparently she has a “summer home” it is nothing more than a little “house” without running water or anything fancy… all the old furniture and stuff goes there and they have a little land, this is where they grow as much as they can in the summer months. They don’t really stay there most of the time… I think they just go there to grow stuff and take care of a garden and fruit trees. Her place is on a river bank so they swim in it some. I think the whole concept is neat, really. But then this is garden maniac talking over here! I am not sure about the no electricity and running water part, but I like the gardening part!
So we left for the BH at 2:45 today instead of 1:45, we waited for Anthony to come out… we went outside this afternoon, it was much more comfortable out there! Alex went off to play with Olga and the little girl of the other visiting family! I think they were playing in the sand! He came to “visit” us every once in a while. Anthony just wanted to be held again! Woohoo! We brought the stacking cups today, but those are not that interesting to him yet… what was of interest is the teether that we bought at Walmart for Alex that vibrates when you bite down on it! Oh my! He loves that thing! We spent a lot of time holding it in his mouth and because he can’t quite figure out how to bite down hard enough, we pinch it for him so it vibrates and he just sits there perfectly still, drooling! Poor kid! Those crazy teeth!
Alex is finally warming up to Misha! I don’t know why it is taking so long… usually he is all over the guys! Especially if they are willing to play with him! But today he finally wanted to play with Misha! So later when he was rude again to Misha and I scolded him, Misha had walked away, Alex went running after him and grabbed his hand! I don’t know what has gotten into him! Misha even tickles him and chases him, which usually makes you Alex’s best friend, who knows! It really is annoying and embarrassing though. Alex really is a nice and very friendly kid!
We came home and Jerry checked email, Alex watched a couple veggie-tales, I took a small nap. Then Alex and I ate some noodles and jerry went to bed… that is it! Now they are both sleeping and I am still typing, I also want to finish Anthony’s book for the caregivers and doctors to write in. I might just go to bed!
Drool and Google!
This is the fist clenching, eye-rubbing, I-am-so-tired look!
I love this picture!!!!
Isn't this the cutest little outfit!? The 3-6 month pants and 6-12 month onesie fits pretty good! And he looked soooo cute in it!
I was doing crunches up to kiss on his cheeks... he thought that was funny! See the adorable dimples!!!
Big brother teaching little brother how its done!
Isn't this the cutest little outfit!? The 3-6 month pants and 6-12 month onesie fits pretty good! And he looked soooo cute in it!
I was doing crunches up to kiss on his cheeks... he thought that was funny! See the adorable dimples!!!
Big brother teaching little brother how its done!
The crazy vibrating teether!
I finally got a shot with his mouth closed! 
This is the way he prefered to spend his visits with us today... only on momma most of the time!
This is the way he prefered to spend his visits with us today... only on momma most of the time!
Ever want to see blogger in Russian!? Good thing I have it memorized!
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