Kazakhstan Adoption

Monday, October 25, 2004

Back home and adjusting

Krysta is slowly adjusting to her new schedule here. There is a 9 hour time difference from where she has lived her first 10 months. It’s coming along - she sleeps through the night at least. It appears her feeding schedule will take the longest for us and her to get to a good point. She has times she seems so hungry for food and is impatient for it. Her naps are the other item to get adjusted. She fights taking her nap, which she didn’t really do for us in Almaty. Yesterday, Oct 24, went well with her schedules, so we will work on it.
She likes her big brother, and he likes her. He likes to help feed her and entertain her. If Logan hears Krysta cry, he tells us and feels he needs to help her to stop. He goofs around with her during car rides to help keep her happy. The only problem is that he also likes to play with her toys. Guess he is going through his 2nd childhood already. Krysta was a little nervous at first with the dogs, but now enjoys them. The Jack Russell had her laughing yesterday when he was playing around her. This morning, she actually was following him around. No problem with the cat, just that the cat better watch his tail or else Krysta will grab a hold of it sometime.
We did have 1 instance of jealousy from Logan. First, I took him to his school PTA function on Friday night. Then on Saturday I took him to Busch Gardens for some alone father and son time to make sure he understands he will still get quality time with his parents. But after we got home, he got jealous when I spent time with Krysta. He said that maybe we don’t want him anymore since we have her. We explained that we give both of them our time. He got over it pretty quickly when we played with both of them together.
We had over 400 emails in our mailbox - mostly JUNK. We could not access our home email address while in Kaz, just our Yahoo one. And we had a bin full of mail, which I did finally go through and sort out the important stuff. We are trying to find a way to organize the house to make it easy to get anything we need for Krysta or Logan when needed. Good thing Logan is 6 years old, he now likes to get some stuff by himself.
Krysta gets her portrait taken this Wednesday for the announcements. Those should come out good now that she is growing some hair and getting to a good weight. She weighed 15.4 pounds at her Dr app’t in Almaty. And the best part, she has not been sick since we got home. We knew the Florida weather would be good for her.
It is good to be back in Florida. It has been in the 80’s and mostly sunny everyday since we got back. A big change from the cold, changing weather in Kaz. The weather in Kaz reminded me of Buffalo - with it changing a lot in temperature and even snow. It’s good to have regular TV again. And burgers and Dairy Queen and Dunkin Donuts and Dr Pepper and watching a little football.
There won’t be many updates now that we are at home with her. We will post her portrait photo when we receive it and give any major updates. For any future travelers to Kaz or info specific to Uralsk, feel free to email us at Loganbear22@yahoo.com

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