Today makes day 14 and the last day of our official petitioned bonding days with Jacob. With the successful completion of today we can now go to court on Friday with a successful bonding period. We had two wonderful visits again today with Jacob and his peeps. He seems to enjoy being the only one not trapped in a high chair or a roll around thingy. On our second visit the caregivers asked Sherri to come back to their room and help with the feeding of Jacob. With about 12 kids to feed every meal, the ladies have a real way of making haste with this process. The kids also seem to know that this is no time for play. As soon as they hit the position you can see the jaws start flapping. It must work though because the kids all seem very well nourished.
After our first visit, it was time to organize the remaining gifts and purchase our authentic Kazakhstan souvenirs. Surprisingly, there are relatively few stores that sell authentic Kazakh goods but luckily our facilitator knows the right places. The store was probably a half mile from our flat so this was too far to walk!! So we took a taxi. The taxi’s here are not quite what we are used to. Both of them that we rode in for the 5 minute trip were from the 50’s at best. They were small Russian made cars multi-colored from the panels replaced over the years. If they had duct tape they could have put it to good use. Inside there was quite a bit of bailing wire and other improvised repairs to keep those old classics going.
It is colder still here today with strong winds making the wind chill feel down into the 50’s. We were prepared for hot weather with lots of heat but not the cold. We both brought one long sleeve shirt and they are getting quite a workout.
We bought traveling clothes for Jacob today. A couple of outfits and some sandals and a cool hat
and he is all ready to go. Speaking of ready to go. In spite of all the friends we have made here we are ready to get home. We want to see all our family and friends as well as return to some of the comforts of home. By the way, this is just one of many reasons why we are ready to leave. JC’s big boy bed at home is bigger than this one.See you soon.
Tim and Sherri
4 comments:
I echo all the previous blog comments in that I can't wait to meet Jacob and I'm so thankful things are falling into place. Travel safely and I look forward to swapping crazy travel stories in person.
-Cousin Allyson
Odd isn't it...we are counting the days until you return...as soon as you arrive, we'll be counting the days until you leave us again to bring Jacob home. I suppose we shouldn't be rushing through life, but in this case we will.
I don't know how we'd be surviving the wait without the blogs. Thanks for your attention to "feeding us" with news.
Much love,
Aunt Jan + 3
Those are some scary big feet. Can't wait till they are on home turf!
Love Debby
Sherri&Tim
Just so you know Misssouri is now getting warm weather. I believe it was in the 80's here in West Plains most of the day yesterday. I finally gave in to Natalies swimming requests and purchased an Aligator pool at Dollar General. It definitely fit the bill for Natalie -- Lauren on the other hand wanted warm bath water and just got mad about the whole experience. I am anxious to see Jacob and Lauren together at the lake hopefully they will both enjoy the water experience!
We are happy to hear things are progressing as planned.
The Stewart's
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