Christmas Pictures

Well I have GREAT news!! I just received a phone call saying that our bag with our clothes should be here in about 1 hour, yahoo!!! The bad side is that our stroller is still MIA. It might be gone for good? Hopefully everything is in our bag when we get it? Nothing to exciting today. Brody slept better last night. He was only up once and went back to sleep. We learned our lesson with the late afternoon nap. He didn't fall to sleep until 10:00pm last night. We are trying a little earlier nap schedule today. He took a morning nap about 8-9am and is sleeping again know, probably 12-1 or 2? We are kinda just hanging out in the hotel today. We got another 3-4 inches of snow last night. It is pretty cold out today (single digits). We are going to the US Embassy tomorrow to get his travel papers and have a little interview, supposidely not a big deal. This will be the last hurdle before leaving for the US. Oh, I guess there is that little detail about the 23 hour plane ride...

Today I am going to put the pictures from Christmas yesterday. The two other babies are Kyle and Nicholas in their outfits.

Merry Christmas!!

Well we made it through our first night. Brody got pretty cranky last night. Lisa ended up putting him to bed about 7:15 and he slept until 7:45 this morning. I guess he really didn't sleep on the train. He we back down for a nap at 11:00 today. I think he is just really tired from everything. He was up every 2-3 hours last night. We would just put his bink back in his mouth and he would go back to sleep. Finally at 4a.m he decided he needed to eat again. We fed him and he went back to sleep. He had his first bath today. I think he really liked it. He didn't cry once, even when we were washing his hair. We want to do a nice Christmas type picture, but we haven't got it accomplished yet.

Anyway, I am glad my poor underwear story is getting so much play around the world. They have become so famous that I decided to they needed to be posted on the blog. It was a little hard to pry them off of my body for the picture, but I did. We put them on the wall for the picture and they stuck on their own...

The next couple pictures are from the first bath!!

Possession is 90% of the law...

Well we got Brody this morning. He was definately a little worn out from the trip. He looks great, maybe a little smelly?? They even gave him a little hair cut before they came!! We tried feeding him yogurt off of the buffet this morning and also some warm cereal type stuff. He wasn't really that interested in either. We tried the formula this morning, no go.. We then tried it again this afternoon and warmed it under the faucet, then he liked it. We took him to the S.O.S. ( I don't know what it stands for) this morning. Everything went fine. He has a little bronchitis which they gave us antibiotics and nose drops for. He also had a little rash on his back?? We didn't see it this morning when we were washing him off. It might have just been a little heat rash. When we got back to the hotel to give him the antibiotics you needed to add water. The only problem is that we had no clue how much to add. Luckily the hotel has a doctor on staff who mixed it and told us it needs to be refrigerated, so I guess we will only use it while we are here. Other than that he seems to be doing great. We are know going to the clinic tomorrow to get the result of his tests. We drop them off to the US embassy Wednesday and return to meet with them on Thursday. Good thing we added an extra day in because we wouldn't have been able to leave on Thursday. Brody has progressed since we left. He pulls up to a stand now and can also kneel on both legs and hold the position. He has two new teeth on the bottow and two coming in on the top. He is knapping know. None of the babies really wanted to knap today. They are all excited to be out of the orphanage and getting so much attention. Lisa was finally able to get him to sleep, so I left the room to do the blog. Still no sign of our bags. I guess the facilitator is working on it... Luckily Andy and Sarah gave us both new shirt that say "coolkazdad" and "coolkazmom" so we can wear them around. You know how Lisa likes to match her clothes to mine when we are out??? Anyway, we washed the stuff we had last night, so it was dry this morning. Here are a few pictures of Brody.

We're in Kazakhstan our bags aren't.....

Well we made it to Kazakhstan this morning. The only problem is that our bag with all of Lisa and my clothes is MIA!!! Also our stroller is gone. So yes I am still wearing the same underwear and socks that I started this journey in. I've always heard that you can turn them inside out and get another days use out of them... We filed a missing bag report, hopefully we get the bags in the couple days. We are going to talk to the local KLM airline rep on Monday, so maybe they'll give us some money to buy a few things? It better be a lot, Lisa just looked at underwear at the store and they were $10 a pair. The good news is that the bag with all of Brody's stuff in it made it. We just spoke to another mother who lost her bag. She eventually got the bag back, but they had stollen all of the new clothes she had brought for the baby. So I guess things could be worse. It has been snowing here since we got here. There is probably 4-5 inches of new snow on the ground. We are suppose to get the babies tomorrow morning at 9am. After that we have our doctor appointment at 11am and then will go to the airline agent. I think tomorrow is going to be a busy day. We just got back from the grocery store buying diapers, wipes and food. All VERY expensive. Mom your little crock pot is in the bag that is lost. Hopefully it shows up, everyone wants to use it for hot water for cereal and formula. Well hopefully I'll have pictures tomorrow, and underwear would also be a plus!!!