June 20 (Kaz)

June 20

At my visit with Andrew today he took his first steps (about 5 steps, then plooped on his diaper), at least the first ones that I saw....he seems to be holding back with showing us the stuff he can do...like when we thought he did not know how to crawl, then the next day he crawled and pulled himself up on the wall. He celebrated by scratching his head.







Here's some pictures of the outside play area....some areas are nicer than others. The stroller in the one picture is one of my Kazak purchases....Andrew was asleep in it and I forgot with the backpack hung on the back it has a tendency to tip. Good thing he did not shift or he would have been launched.







To celebrate the momentous occassion of Endru's first steps we had a nice liter....of apply juice. The little napkin was our spelling of it, unsure if it's Kazak or Russian, because for some reason the waitress could not understand our fluent Russian. We only know how to spell it because we buy a liter of apple juice at the market every couple days.









And in case you forget what I look like, or what 7 1/2 weeks in Kazakhstan does to you, here's a picture of me, about 4 weeks overdue for a haircut., and pondering a Russian menu. Yes, we have hit the bottom of the barrel for photos for the blog.

Keep those comments coming, and pray to the Paperwork and Travel Gods. Our translator suggested I pray to ALL the Gods, not just mine, that the paperwork has no problems. I don't see that as a good sign.