Boys & Kittens!

The boys!!!

A common scene lately!
Alex and the little bitty kitten!
I'm just so cute, i don't know what to do!
A shot of his scrawny little bahoney and legs!
This is Olga carrying him away, like she has to every day!

Locked Out... (day 8)

Oh goodness! Today we headed over to the babyhouse and all the front covered floors were occupado! So we went to the one in the back! It was nice back there. No distractions. A really big slide, but it was hot so no sliding on it today! Alex played with his broken excavator and some with us… he comes over and talks to Anthony a little and shows him his toy and then he is off again, to play with Olga or the sand box! Out back there are lots of very long clothes lines! There were lots and lots of sheets hanging up there today to dry… while we were there they started taking some of them down! I cannot believe the speed with which that lady took those things off the line! She was practically running along the line!!! There is a building out back… I am guessing that is the laundry house, she took all the sheets inside there! We got Anthony to laugh more today!! We just play on the floor, hold him and look at him! He is so sweet! He didn’t do any fussing this morning!

We went to the bazaar after our visit. We went to the “Russian” Market. There are mostly clothes, shoes, purses, and there is a hardware section at the back. We looked for some of those Cobenok shoes for the kids. There were some, mostly sandals. I was hoping to find some shoes for the boys for this fall and winter. I will keep looking… it was so hot today, I couldn’t even shop… I sure didn’t want to stop moving. I hope we have a cool day again soon! We need to go back. I would like to buy a purse or two as well. They have the funkiest purses/bags here! Jerry found Alex a “Lightning McQueen” car… it is really cheap and probably won’t make it home with us… Poor kid. We brought his little backpack with several books, and all his little matchbox cars and his “Mack & Lightning” set with us… well, in Almaty when we were going through customs it disappeared and we didn’t realize it until later… we checked the next day at the airport, but found nothing. So he is without most of his toys! Jerry also found Alex an airplane… it is super cheap and falls apart constantly, but Alex loves it! We finally left and came home… we got out and went to our door… by the time we realized we did not have the keys, Misha and Olga were gone!! Jerry wasn’t sure if he had lost the keys or if he had left them inside this morning, but we did not have them! So we sat outside and Alex played with his toys and Jerry went to the bakery and found a peach bread thing, some apples and a fanta orange… so that is what we had for lunch… real nutritious, huh? We waited the hour and 10 minutes for Olga and Misha to come back! It was rather humorous and stupid! When it was all said and done Jerry had left the keys on the dresser! Our door this time can be locked by pushing a button! Last time we had to use the key to lock the door, so we never forgot it!

So our afternoon visit with Anthony was funny! Jerry got Anthony laughing so hard! It was adorable!!!!! He was “getting” Anthony’s stomach with his mouth and nose and making funny noises I cannot describe! It was hilarious!!! It lasted for 5-10 minutes!!!!! Over and over again! Alex took a walk with Olga to the “chocolate” store as Alex calls it. They came back with chocolate, vitamin c and water! They are funny! Alex liked the vitamin c! He brought Jerry and I each a piece of chocolate and a vitamin c tablet (melts on your tongue). We made Anthony pull himself all over the sheet today! There was a rug today on the floor, so it was much nicer to sit on the floor! It was better for Anthony to wiggle along, too! He sure likes the camera and the wipes crinkly bag! Typical baby!!! Finally Anthony was getting tired and wanted to just suck on his thumb… he “fastens” his hands together with one thumb in his mouth and just wants to lay there! We want to hold him while he relaxes… he doesn’t want to be held though… uh-oh! He started to fuss! And have a little conniption!!! I couldn’t believe it!!! It surprised us! Just like Alex does now! Jerry got all serious and looked down in his face and said “NO! Anthony!” Anthony stopped for a second, and then tried it again a few seconds later… Jerry said “Nyet!” several times to him… Then jerry says to him… “oh boy, you got in the wrong family, for throwing fits!” It was hilarious!!! If any of you followed us getting Alex, you will remember that after we took custody of him and we got to Almaty Alex would throw those screaming crying fits! Remember we would put him in that play pen with no toys and let him just scream until he was done… I really hope Anthony doesn’t go there so early in life! It was rather funny to us, really. Right now we have to keep him content at the babyhouse, but after we get him, he can fuss all he wants while we hold him… we are still going to hold him like we did Alex when he didn’t want to be held! He needs to bond, and that we aren’t just going to put him down! He is our baby and we love him no matter what! He just isn’t used to it… he will learn!

It wasn’t long and it was time for him to go back in anyways… he could take his nap! I can’t wait to see more of what he is like on an hour by hour basis! Does he just get fussy when he is tired… does he like to go to sleep or does he fight it, like he seems to with us? Who knows!? It will be fun!

We came home and decided to go to “Pizza Hot” across the street. The pizza was good! Not very filling though for 3 of us. It needs a salad with it or something! But they don’t have salads, I guess. Maybe it was because we hardly had lunch! We will try again sometime…

Alex went to bed before 7pm, since he didn’t have a nap today. I worked on the book to give the caregivers, and doctor to answer questions about Anthony and his life at the babyhouse. Jerry bid a job.

Tasting & Fussing!

He really went crazy on this book today... he had to "taste" every part of it, several times! He was quite obsessed! Here is the outside of our apartment!
Taste the "blankie" too! Must have learned that one from Alex!
That is the crinkly leaf that covers up the caterpillar! I think that is the favorite page so far.
Bring on the tickling daddy!!!
Sucking on my thumb a little bit..
Big brother handing out the "puffs", Alex figures he loved/s them so much Anthony should too!
Anthony isn't really quite sure what to do with it, actually. It fell out of his mouth a couple times before it desolved enough! He just wants to suck on everything, who cares about chewing anything! This was the face after the puff!

Resting at the end of a hard day's play!!!

7 Month Birthday! (day 7)

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.

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!

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!

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...

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!

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!!!

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!

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!