Day one 13 to go

We were lucky enough to catch a taxi back to our apartment so that we could grab a quick bite to eat before our visit with our boy. I really don’t think that he is 11 lbs yet. More like 9. He is however growing out of the 0-3 month clothes. I should be able to find out a lot more today because all of the paperwork problems have finally been cleared up. If we do not encounter any more problems we should be able to fly home by the 6th of June. John might need to come home early, but this will depend on flight scheduals and when our final court day will be. Baby bug was very uncofortable yesterday. They feed them very quickly and the bottles let a lot of air in, so he is very gassy when we see him. It is frustrating to only be able to comfort him and not be allowed to prevent the disscomfort. Only 14 more days until we can petition the court.

Thank you all of your comments on John’s Birthday. We love reading them and we wish that we had time to respond to everyone. Tom we are very glad to hear that this Sister’s house sold. (Nicky if you could share this with him since I know he won’t be reading it off the computer.) We thought about Tom a lot yesterday as we watched all of the celebrations for Victory day here. Talk about a way to show respect for their WWII veterans. It is too easy for us in the US to forget how many soldiers the Solviet’s lost fighting Germany (23 million.) It was also hard to see how few of those soldiers who lived thorough the war are still here. We will post some pictures tomorrow as we do not have our camera with us right now. Our friends Naydia and Olga called us up and invited us to the days activites. After the memorial service at the WWII monument we walked to the big park by the river. We did not have enough time to stay for long, but we have decided we will spend one of our Sundays there. We can also rent a boat so mabye this will be a late birhtday present for John.

I will take pictures of the apartment today so I can post them later. The internet cafe is pretty slow, but like the computers at school I am learning that some are faster than others. Thank you Didgett and Cindy for checking in. I am glad that Kerri was able to show you the little one.

Ok, I must go as we are tutoring one of our Kazakh friends over lunch time. He has a job interview in three weeks so he needs a lot of practice.