We are still out here.

Hello everyone,

Once again we have found ourselves very busy and without a working computer and I have neglected my loyal readers. We are doing very well and trying very hard to be patient with this seemingly never ending process.

The good news is that Baby bug is growing more and more attached to us. He laughs when he sees us which makes us beam with pride. We have gotten him a few outfits and like a true champ he spits up on them right after we get him dressed. It is a pretty neat trick. I know that he has my heart now as I got my first projectile spit up on me and it didn’t phase me a bit. It is very funny, because everyday they bring him in, they ask us not to shake him because he was just fed. You know they are pretty smart.

So, you are probably wondering what we do with the rest of our days here. Well we have actually made several really god friends. Most of them are from an English club which is for students who are learning English. One of them even found us a very affordable apartment for the next two weeks.

We love staying at the Pushkin Hotel, yet with our extended stay it is much too expensive for us to stay here the whole time. We will return to the Pushkin once we get custody of our little guy.

Oh, Beth he is a hat wearer:)

Today we also had a fabulous day after getting to only spend 40 minutes with our child. We went to the Kazakh history museum with our friends Matt and Betsy (from AZ) and Johnda and Yerzbo from Kazakhstan. They taught us all about the history of this amazing country. There is nothing like going to a museum in the Central Asia to make the USA seem really really young. Their artifacts are so old and so beautiful. Kerri you would have loved the may saddles they had on display. They showed how they were first wood to the nicer endurance saddles of the nomads. Jim they had amazing knives and bows and arrows that are like nothing we have at home. We have also heard rumors that the Kazakh orchestra will be playing here May 15th and we are really hoping to go, would you like to join us Lia? On Saturday’s class we were also treated by one of the students who played the dombra for us. I almost cried with the beauty of such and instrument and at her kind gester of playing just because we asked her to the previous week. We are also slowly learning Kazakh words and we are constantly learning new Russian words. For families traveling in the future I can not stress how helpful it has been to have a basic knowledge of the language.

I have said it before, and I will say it again; this country is amazing and the youth are resilient. I am very curious to see what these new leaders will make of their mother land.