Greetings from Sunny HOT Almaty! It’s been blazing the past few days. Thankfully my apartment is up on the 5th floor and I do tend to get some type of breeze, if you want to call it that, during the day : ) I save the AC for night, it looks old and pretty beat up. I want to keep that champ going for the remainder of the stay.
Yesterday my visit got changed last minute from morning to later in the afternoon, so I didn’t have time to come to the internet café. Today I will play catch up on both days.
Wednesday Lucy was in great spirits, as she usually is in the afternoon. You will see in the pictures, she got a kick out of sitting independently on the bench on the porch to eat her snack. She would throw her arm up on the railing or throw her leg up on the bench and crack up. She is such a little ham! We will surely have our hands full when she is home. She keeps Momma on her feet, chasing after her, and trying to save her from a face plant in the dirt, or worse on the concrete. We can’t wait for parks, and grass, and walks around the lake…all the things I imagined we would do when she got home. We are counting down the days : )
Today she was a little cheery, she was a little “naughty” as Asila my translator called her. She wanted her snack the second I arrived, and of course I couldn’t supply it fast enough so she had a fit. After she ate, she was better, but then about 20 minutes before our visit was over she lost it. Through herself down on the porch and screamed for 10 minutes. I tried to wait it out, but it’s not something you want to do when you have five caregivers staring at you. I picked her up, offered her a pacifier and she was out like a like in five seconds. In the end she isn’t naughty, she just gets very tired in the morning, especially close to lunch time.
I am still surviving, can you believe it’s day 4 already (it feels like day 40…HAHA)? I have challenging moments, but all and all it’s going just fine. I may have already told you, and forgive me if I’m repeating myself, but I camp out in the living room on the air mattress now. It’s my new favorite safe haven for sleep and hanging out. I feel like I’m back at the Cirino’s for one of my thousand sleepovers (well we had a bunk or a trundle, but you get the picture). I have my nightly routine of chatting on IM with whoever is on, usually Amy and Jen, and then I watch an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, read, and go to sleep. Such an exciting life I am living over here! Zhaniya keeps reminding me to not go out late at night, I reassure her that I’m not going any were other then my air matress.
I hope everyone is having a great week, Lucy sends her love and I do too!
Julie and Lucy
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