June 9 (Kaz)

June 9th

Today was a scorcher in Kazakhstan. It's 90 something degrees and we were outside for our 2 hour visit. We found a shady spot under the tree.

Later we went over to the swing and I got him to sit by himself....but he gets interested in watching the ground beneath us and nearly falls off. Once that excitement ends then I give him his teether, which must be Russian for 'object to throw and watch someone pick up'.






To finish out of exciting daily visit, I wrapped him in a blanket, which seems to calm him down, then we went for a walk. I had him strapped to me and was trying to take pictures, and did not realize he had fallen asleep on our walk. He had a Robbie Grumpy look when I woke him up (similar to the look he had when Eric and Erin called one morning and Robbie was still sleeping and did not want to talk until it sunk in that someone was actually calling from America). You can tell he looks a little hot and he guzzled down some water out of the water bottle (my water bottle, not a baby bottle).



Last night we came home from a walk that was about 7 hours long and found a nasty note in Russian on our door. Since we know about 10 words of Russian between us, mostly spoken, I gave it to the translator. Apparettnly the lady that lives below us in apt 146 (the only thing we could gather from the note) on the 1st floor does not like that we run our Air Conditioner 24 hours a day because it drips water 8 stories down onto a tin room all night long. She wants us to turn it off. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Another 2 or 3 weks and her problems will go away.

For dinner tonight we went to a sort of Italian place that has good potatoe stuff. Natalie also got this wicked looking Brussel Sprout cheese and egg pie thing.

6 weeks down and 3 more to go!