Day 4-Baby Come Back--(double click here for pics)
Saturday, July 1st--Day 4 visitation
To clear up any confusion. From yesterday's post on out--to see photos you can double click on the title of the post and it will take you to the pictures of the day. We appologize for the unorganization of the blog, but Bobby is trying to create all of this using Russian directions...so,I am sure you can imagine the difficulty.
Well today was another exciting day. We are finally starting to get adjusted to the time over here. We all slept until 7:30am Kazak time. We have been waking up around 4:30am, so this was a great accomplishment for us. We have heard it takes 1 day for every hour difference in time to adjust to the time change. I am beginning to believe it. We began our day eating the doughnuts we purchased from the bakery. They were surprisingly good! We will definately make another visit to the bakery before we leave. After breakfast, we exercised(we have a stationary bike in the apartment), played the card game "Old Maid", and worked on our puzzle a bit--we are coming along on the puzzle!!! It was then time to get ready to go see Landen. Bobby video'd our ride to the baby house. Should be interesting to show all of you when we get back.
Once we got to the baby house we were asked if we would like to play in the little playroom again or go outside. We decided we would like to start out in the room and then go outside. It was too hot and humid to stay out there the whole time.....
After a few minutes one of his caretakers brought him in...and yes, once again he had pink on. I am telling you, they love to put him in pink. The had him in a little blue and white short sleeved jumper and a light coat with pink, blue and green on it. They had put the coat on to go outside, even though it was over 90 degrees out there. As we have told you before, they believe in dressing the children very warmly to go outside--even when it is hot. We quickly removed his little coat. Once again, he was in a very good mood. He just loves Rylee and gravitates right to her. They played for a while on the couch and then on the floor. I just love watching them interact. They are definately building a bond very quickly. He has not been spitting up as much, so Rylee is back wanting to hold him again! (after the day of the bad spit up, she was very hesitant. lol).
We purchased him a new toy yesterday at the mall. (a lot of the toys we brought with us are soft, and they will not allow us to bring those to him--they asked that we bring hard plastic, only). He really liked the toy, but seems to love his teething ring and an elmo toy we brought with us that sings. He then started playing with Daddy. Daddy played Patty Cake with him and he loved it! He just listened and smiled at first and you could tell he was really into it..then, after a couple times he started his little belly laugh! I love it when he laughs. After about an hour and a half his caretaker came down to get him. We were very surprised, because we are supposed to have 2 1/2 hours with him. Our translator had left to go back to her office for a while, and we had no way of asking why she was getting him....I tried to let her know we were not ready, but these ladies are in charge and we have to abide by their rules. It is not a good feeling to have them come wisk your son away. I can tell this is going to get harder and harder for me everyday! I just want to take him home with us! Patience...you would think that I would be very good at practing my patience by now.
Anyway, we then sat in the babyhouse waiting room for over an hour waiting for our translator and driver to come back to get us. Our translator was not happy that they had come and gotten Landen so soon and went and talked with his caretaker and she came back down and advised that they would not cut our visits short again. Apparently, the caretaker thought it was supposed to be just 1 1/2 hour visit.
After we left the baby house we stopped at a small vender on the side of the road and purchased a watermelon. It was so interesting, because after we picked out the melon we wanted she cut out a plug to show us that the melon was bright red and ripe. She then placed the plug back in the melon and gave it to us--this was pretty neat! We were very surprised that the melon only cost us about $2 in US dollars.
After we got back to the apartment we cut up our watermelon(it was delicious, by the way), we then rested for about 1 1/2 hours. Our interpreter then came to pick us up and take us to dinner. She brought her 10 year old daughter, Lezza. Lezza can understand English, but not speak it very well. She is a very beautiful young lady, and Rylee enjoyed having another little girl around. Lezza's hair was braided all over...and Rylee loved it!! Lezza and Lena just returned from Turkey last weekend and we were told that hair braiding is a tradition there. We took a taxi to an Italian restaurant across town. We had pizza! It was delicious. We found out that they deliver! Can you believe it? We can have pizza delivered to us in Kazakhstan!
We have a mall,pizza delivery, and tomorrow (weather permitting)...the beach! Don't you wish you were here?
To clear up any confusion. From yesterday's post on out--to see photos you can double click on the title of the post and it will take you to the pictures of the day. We appologize for the unorganization of the blog, but Bobby is trying to create all of this using Russian directions...so,I am sure you can imagine the difficulty.
Well today was another exciting day. We are finally starting to get adjusted to the time over here. We all slept until 7:30am Kazak time. We have been waking up around 4:30am, so this was a great accomplishment for us. We have heard it takes 1 day for every hour difference in time to adjust to the time change. I am beginning to believe it. We began our day eating the doughnuts we purchased from the bakery. They were surprisingly good! We will definately make another visit to the bakery before we leave. After breakfast, we exercised(we have a stationary bike in the apartment), played the card game "Old Maid", and worked on our puzzle a bit--we are coming along on the puzzle!!! It was then time to get ready to go see Landen. Bobby video'd our ride to the baby house. Should be interesting to show all of you when we get back.
Once we got to the baby house we were asked if we would like to play in the little playroom again or go outside. We decided we would like to start out in the room and then go outside. It was too hot and humid to stay out there the whole time.....
After a few minutes one of his caretakers brought him in...and yes, once again he had pink on. I am telling you, they love to put him in pink. The had him in a little blue and white short sleeved jumper and a light coat with pink, blue and green on it. They had put the coat on to go outside, even though it was over 90 degrees out there. As we have told you before, they believe in dressing the children very warmly to go outside--even when it is hot. We quickly removed his little coat. Once again, he was in a very good mood. He just loves Rylee and gravitates right to her. They played for a while on the couch and then on the floor. I just love watching them interact. They are definately building a bond very quickly. He has not been spitting up as much, so Rylee is back wanting to hold him again! (after the day of the bad spit up, she was very hesitant. lol).
We purchased him a new toy yesterday at the mall. (a lot of the toys we brought with us are soft, and they will not allow us to bring those to him--they asked that we bring hard plastic, only). He really liked the toy, but seems to love his teething ring and an elmo toy we brought with us that sings. He then started playing with Daddy. Daddy played Patty Cake with him and he loved it! He just listened and smiled at first and you could tell he was really into it..then, after a couple times he started his little belly laugh! I love it when he laughs. After about an hour and a half his caretaker came down to get him. We were very surprised, because we are supposed to have 2 1/2 hours with him. Our translator had left to go back to her office for a while, and we had no way of asking why she was getting him....I tried to let her know we were not ready, but these ladies are in charge and we have to abide by their rules. It is not a good feeling to have them come wisk your son away. I can tell this is going to get harder and harder for me everyday! I just want to take him home with us! Patience...you would think that I would be very good at practing my patience by now.
Anyway, we then sat in the babyhouse waiting room for over an hour waiting for our translator and driver to come back to get us. Our translator was not happy that they had come and gotten Landen so soon and went and talked with his caretaker and she came back down and advised that they would not cut our visits short again. Apparently, the caretaker thought it was supposed to be just 1 1/2 hour visit.
After we left the baby house we stopped at a small vender on the side of the road and purchased a watermelon. It was so interesting, because after we picked out the melon we wanted she cut out a plug to show us that the melon was bright red and ripe. She then placed the plug back in the melon and gave it to us--this was pretty neat! We were very surprised that the melon only cost us about $2 in US dollars.
After we got back to the apartment we cut up our watermelon(it was delicious, by the way), we then rested for about 1 1/2 hours. Our interpreter then came to pick us up and take us to dinner. She brought her 10 year old daughter, Lezza. Lezza can understand English, but not speak it very well. She is a very beautiful young lady, and Rylee enjoyed having another little girl around. Lezza's hair was braided all over...and Rylee loved it!! Lezza and Lena just returned from Turkey last weekend and we were told that hair braiding is a tradition there. We took a taxi to an Italian restaurant across town. We had pizza! It was delicious. We found out that they deliver! Can you believe it? We can have pizza delivered to us in Kazakhstan!
We have a mall,pizza delivery, and tomorrow (weather permitting)...the beach! Don't you wish you were here?
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