HEALING HUMP DAY!!!

It's HEALING HUMP DAY (Wednesday) because I AM HEALED! Hurray for the Cipro, pepcid, pepto combo! I was starving at lunch time today and ate a yummy salad, chicken and mashed potatoes, and coffee and some kind of tasty lemon cake. So, I guess we can FORGET about the bonus of weight loss from my stomach issues. HA! I am sitting here in my NEW slipper/socks made of MOUNTAIN GOAT fur that I bought at the market today. They are fuzzy and they feel like an angora cat. I also got Leeza a pair! Her's are really cute and will keep her cute lil feet warm. You can't get THESE at Target!!! They are so soft and so warm. I have to wash them in cold water with shampoo. I was glad I had Tatiana there to translate that, but I do know cold and I do know shampoo (cuz shampoo is the same word) so maybe I would have figured it out. Good thing it's COLD WATER cuz we still don't have hot water. I am so glad we have the boiler because we have hot showers, but no hot water in the kitchen yet. God bless the boiler! I also found Leeza 3 pairs of tights at the market....they are so cute! Only 300 tenge each, that is not a bad deal! I don't see her wearing tights that much at home (maybe when it's cooler out, with a jumper though) but DEFINTELY when she's here in October. My girl needs cute tights!! Sean got a sketchbook, he didn't want any goat fur socks or tights. It is warmer today, but I also wore long pants and the only sweater I brought and I wore slippers at the baby house instead of my bare feet. I was much more comfy today. Sean is still in shorts and his short sleeve shirt, since he is not wimpy like his mommy. :) Tatiana brought me a leather jacket to wear until Joe gets here with mine. She is such a sweetie pie...someone that is a real "chickpea" (a name for a real girlfriend). She is defintely someone that I would love to hang out with and would cherish her friendship. She only had to teach 2 classes today, so she picked us up with Ivan this morning, and then met us for lunch and went to the market with us this afternoon. Leeza was absolutely ADORABLE today! She is changing so much-it's really cool to witness. She was on the potty when we arrived, and got so excited she almost rocked off her potty. I got to dress her and feed her lunch, and off to the vistitation rooom we went. I would have taken her for a walk outside today because it was sunny and not as windy, but they asked us not too. She had a bath this morning so they didn't want her outside (?) She was Leeza, girl of action today. She is really studying us and is into imiating what we do. She does a really cute "peek a boo" too!
It is becoming harder to get good pictures of her because she is moving all over the place. I put her cute lil chepchick on her because we open the window in visitation room (shhh don't tell!) cuz if not, it's very stuffy in there and it smells. However, the breeze is cool so I want her ears covered. She hasn't had a runny nose in a couple weeks and I want it to stay that way. Plus, she looked so adorable in her pink chepchick with her matching pink sweats. Or, she will FINALLY look at the camera,but she seems to be thinking..."ok, FINE, I will look, but I'm not SMILING on command" She is really working on "figuring things out" and it's really amazing to watch her stack the stacking cups and throw the ball with us, etc because I can almost see the "gears" turning in her lil brain.
We had fun rolling the ball to her, and having her try to figure out how to roll it back. I just adore thsi age....so much fun to watch them learn! She enjoyed Sean's puzzle book today, as you can see, it says from ages 9 to 99, but she thought that meant from 9 MONTHS,and she is almost 12 months, don't you know. Plus, her new tooth has popped thru! I knew she was teething because EVERYTHING has been going in her mouth. She now has 7 teeth! Her new one makes 3 on the bottom! I was also noticing today that she never spits up, and never drools. I wonder if she is just over the spit up stage since she is a year old on Friday? I thought all babies drooled though(especially when they are cutting teeth) but maybe between 11:30 and 2:30 is her "drool free zone" and she tries not to drool or anything gross during this time. We have had a couple poopy diapers though, but nothing else gross worthy. There is another couple here, but we haven't seen them yet. In fact, I think there are 2 couples here, and Kelly and Doug from Maine arrive tonight. Tatiana saw the newest couple in the visitation room but they were gone by the time Leeza was done with lunch. I think they try to keep us all seperated...we're all with different agencies. So, I would love to meet these other people, but I haven't seen them yet! I know I will meet Kelly and Doug though because we follow each other's blog's and our on each other's skype's, and they brought me zone bars and coffee! It was a really wonderful day! I'm HEALED, I got soft slipper socks made of mountain goat, and Leeza plays peekaboo AND claps,got a new tooth and I never saw drool........life does not GET much better than this! Although, of course, we wish Daddy was here and we are so excited to introduce Leeza to our family and friends! She is going to be a very popular girl!! And, just so you can see that she does get "crabby", i posted a video of crabby Leeza below....