Swaddling Helps!!

We learned a few lessons on calming our child. Needless to say he is not always happy. Sometimes he is not happy in any position. He wants to be held and cries and then wants down and cries, and eventually just rocks on his knees and cries. One of the nurses taught us how to swaddle him which was a GOD send!! After that (and a change to a Russian Binky) he was awesome. We are learning a few positions that might work on a long plane ride home. The second picture is of Brody playing with his new freind Kyle Gracon Keyes. He is the child of the other couple we have been traveling with. They have been great to have for support. They also remembered to bring all the things we didn't?? The third picture is of the three of them. Anyway, people were asking about the lack of snow in the last pictures. They were taken before the snow storm. It is still cold and icy here. We went down town yesterday and went to their malls. We bought a $60 diaper bag.. It was the only one we could find. We are still looking for a few other things he needs for his escort from Karaganda to Almaty. They want enough stuff to last them a week, for a two hour flight?? Everything is pretty expensive here. The unit of currency is the Tenge. We get 120 tenge for 1 US dollar. Average dinner is about $30 dollars. Baby clothes are very expensive, aprox $10 for a onesie?