Ethan and I in Almaty in the morning before leaving for Kokshetau
Ethan and I on the Kak 40 plane:Almaty to Kokshetau
My Son and I on our first meeting!!!
Ethan, Caleb and I with Dr. Victoria and the Ministry of Education
Our Boy!!!
Ethan and Caleb
Caleb and I
Our hotel in Kokshetau
The Yak 40 Plane
My baby boy!!!
August 9
Greetings!
Thank you all for your kind words and excitement in our joy. Today we had a great visit with Caleb. He was happy to see us and full of smiles. We spent the entire time holding him, he b/c a little fussy when we laid him down, so we figured, we only get to spend 2 hours a day with him, he needs to be held. We had exercise time, camera time and tummy time. Surprising to us, but when we layer him on his belly he showed us that he is crawling now. He just scooted his little self across the mattress we had laid on the floor, no problem. Of course, we got the video camera out to capture this and then he just sat there on all four and looked at us until we turned the camera off and then he started again. We were able to feed him, sour milk. Yuck, tomorrow we are adding rice cereal to his formula with vitamins. At the end he was able to go to sleep in my arms and I just laid him in his crib and we quietly left. The nurse was on standby, as they expected him to cry when we left. Luckily he was asleep with his taggy blanket. He is beyond our expectations, sweet, loving and interactive.
As to the rest of the day, we awoke at 4:30 am, better than the day before. Had exercise time, Ethan has become my personal trainer for the trip. I am so sore currently that I can barely move. We had breakfast here at the hotel, which was good, thankfully there was Nescafe coffee. We then had our visit with Caleb and met our "travel partners", a couple from Virginia. They are kind, adopting a little boy. We went to the grocery store and got food so we don't have to eat out as much, nutella, bread, fish in a can (for Ethan) and fruit. I am happy that they have carbonated water everywhere here, my Peria is everywhere! They call it "water with gas" here. And that is about it. We will eat in tonight; watch a movie and count down the hours until we get to see our son again.
Thank you to everyone at UOHA, your post have meant so much to know that you are all thinking and praying for us.
Mary
