Hard choice... would hate to be outside after dark in a foreign country all by myself. On the other hand, its only a couple blocks away and I am a pretty fast walker.
My tummy won and I managed to walk to the store and back in about 30mins.
Actually, I went outside the other day too. The day after my last post I thought I would ask our driver to take me to the store. But while I was in visiting with Veronika he left for a little bit and returned just as I was about to take her back to her groupa. I thought maybe he had gone to get some gas or something like that until I got into the car and he announced his grandma was in the back seat. I thought it was very sweet that he would pick her up and take her someone and I didnt want to ask to stop at the store with his grandma in the car and waiting to be taken where she needed to go, but I knew I needed to go get something. The big grocery store is a bit of a walk and I have only walked there once and that was with Mark who has an amazing sense of direction. Me? I am directionally challenged. But I did know how to get to a nice park with lots of benches and to McDonalds. So I decided to go get something from McDonalds and eat it at the park while reading my book.
I managed to find a nice bench in near the shade and sat down to enjoy my book all the while, eyeing the bench near me that was fully in the shade but was currently taken. After about half a thing of fries and two chapters the lady left the bench and I bolted walked over to enjoy reading within the sun in my eyes. I ended up reading about five chapters before I got up and walked back to the apartment.
One thing I have always disliked is the quiet. My grandpa was 100% Sicilian, quiet just goes against the grain. I love noise. To get to sleep every night I turn on the tablet and play some nature sounds (rain and rolling thunder). It is hard to be here throughout the day and not talk. For those who know me very well, I am quiet around people I do not know very well, but once I get comfortable I tend to talk alot.
But not much longer, then I will be picking up Veronika and Gavyn from their orphanages and not much longer after that heading Home!!!
Mark is amazing, hes back home trying so hard. Keep in mind that until we were married in 2008 he had never had kids before. He gets along great with our 13 (14 in July) and 15 year old, but I know he was a bit nervous about going back home without me. Our 15 year old has been having quite the hard time since her dad walked out on the kids while we were going and she was sure that Mark being home would make everything better. While it is helped and they are so happy Mark is back, I have been told that it won't be better until I get home. That just pulls so much at my heart. To know that my kids back home need me and I am not there. *hugs* Not much longer and I will be home guys!!
The orphanage visits have been yielding a LOT less pictures and videos lately. It is just really hard to take them with it just being me. But I am making the most of the time and loving on Veronika and Gavyn and giving them all the loving I can and they are just soaking it up.
Yesterday and today I went to see Gavyn first. This is working out MUCH better. Once I have him, I can spend about 45mins -1 hour with him and then go see Veronika. Her orphanage is not as strict about naptime and do not mind if I bring her back after 12. (they both have nap at 12), so I have been been able to be with her until about 12:15 or 12:30. Another thing I am finding helpful is I have been requesting upright strollers. This is helping Gavyn to not spit up as much in addition to giving me a chance to talk and play with them. I love to cuddle with them, but I also like to be able to play with them. He seems to enjoy making music, he doesn't really respond to music when it plays, but he loves to bang on the tablet when it is in piano mode and make his own music. Gavyn's feet are really dry so the last few days I have been putting baby lotion all over his feet, he seems to enjoy it. I also took his jacket off. He was already in long sleeves and it is about 72F today so while long sleeves were fine, it seemed a bit much to also have on a thick jacket (plus he has a little heat rash all on his neck so I didnt want that to get worse). I think they got tired of hearing me complain about his cough and I had our facilitator tell them I would buy any meds he needs if they would just help him get better. They ended up writing down 3 different meds he needs. We went to about 5 different pharmacies, we found the first two meds but was told that the last med was no where in our city so tomorrow we will have to ask the doctor if there is a different one that he can take. The visit with Veronika was wonderful, we listed to some music together, we cuddled, I rocked her and sang to her while she was in the baby sling, and of course we had a wonderful time with patty-cake (tried this with Gavyn again today and he opened his hands for it!!! Before now hes been stiff not knowing what to do and had his hands in little fists, but now he was able to clap his hands together with my help and he thought it was so funny) Veronika is so silly, her HANDS are ticklish. I cleaned her hands with a baby wipe and she thought it was the funniest thing in the world. One thing that is obvious with both of them is that they are not use to a lot of stimulation. Poor sweethearts are going to have to get use to having a lot of things going on once we get back home. We certainly will be working hard on a LOT of PT to try to make up for lost time, in addition to tummy time, which neither of the are overly fond of. But they will also get tons of love and cuddles to make up for it all.
(for those who are wondering... the top three pictures are Gavyn, the bottom three are Veronika)
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