Jacob & his Peeps

When we arrived at our scheduled first playtime today, we found Jacob grinning from ear to ear in a walker boogying down to Kaz pop tunes. Interesting fact. The walkers are on wheels (Duh! So the kids can walk!). Here, however, the walkers are tied to chairs so the kids don’t go wheeling out of control across the floor. Next to Jacob, my favorite little dude in his group was walker-bound and thought none-to-highly of Jacob stealing a toy from him. He let out a very loud cry for a little dude but Jacob latched on and would not let go. I practically had to wrestle him for it! Watch out… Orphanage life has not taught Jacob how to share well with others!

Jacob’s “peeps” watched in envy as he was allowed freedom of movement. To console the others, we grabbed several toys from our bag for the other kids to inspect. Mom – the jumping frog is still the biggest hit of the show! Each kid slimed it at least once.

The weather here just couldn’t be any better. It’s about 80 degrees with a nice breeze. We had Jacob outside for our second playtime and we tried our best to entertain him and the kids just slightly older.

We did have an accomplishment on the techy front. No, our phone still stinks and works about 40% of the time. Sorry to all who've tried to call. We're roaming using an Estonia phone # in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Improvement on the phone-front is not likely to improve. What did improve, at least for us, is that our site's function commands are now in English! Not sure what you were seeing but when we logged in, all of the Blogspot info was in Russian. Luckily, I'd played on the site enough to muddle our way through the posts. But, since we have nothing better to do tonight, we grabbed a Russian dictionary, a translation site on the internet and a bit of luck. The result. We're finally seeing our site in English!

We spoke to JC earlier today. He told us all about strawberry picking, riding the Gator, swimming, playing outside, etc. It sounds like he's doing well. I made it through the call without tears (for once!). Looks like our bonding period will end on Tuesday, June 6th. Our facilitator is already speaking to the judge and we're hoping for a court date shortly thereafter. We hate to leave Jacob behind but we cannot wait to get home for JC (and Abby the dog too!).

We had Cognac and super-huge hot dogs for dinner. Let me rephrase that by saying that we both drank Cognac and Tim ate both hot dogs for dinner. No worries, however, I ate the left over cake from yesterday's festivities. No weight loss here... bummer!

Not much more to say here….. things are very routine. I've started watching the Lost Season 1 (thanks Susan & Ernie) and have read 3 books. Tim fills his time working. We miss everyone, especially JC, and can’t wait to come home.

Much love to all! Thanks for your posts!