Little Chicken Man

Poor baby, our little guy has developed the Chicken Pox. We had been told that there was an outbreak at the baby-house but had not seen any children with the Chicken Pox. We did get very lucky to get him out of the baby-house before he developed a rash or we would not have been aloud to take him. I guess they put the children in a 21-day quarantine, could you imagine, Jeff and I being pronounced his parents and then not being able to take him for 3 more weeks. I think we would have died, we would have had to leave Russia and come back for a 3rd trip, YIKES!

We are heading back to Moscow on Sunday and are supposed to do our medical exams on Monday. I think we may have to wait until Weds because they are not going to allow us to take him out of the country with the poxs. My Mom called us and she looked them up on the Internet, she said they are actually only contagious for the 2 days before the rash and only if you touch an oozing blister after that, I never knew that it was an air-born illness. Thank God I packed the Caladryl, I am not sure why but I am sure glad I did. I am bummed because we have to keep him inside and away from Jackson, we really wanted to let them play together but we do not want to get him sick.

Well, I got thrown into motherhood with a sick baby and I think Jeff and I are doing OK. Despite him not feeling very well and being taken away from everything he knows he did give us some smiles and laughs. He ate well, but don’t let anyone tell you an orphan will eat anything he tried everything but he did not care for the Apple Cinnamon oatmeal I brought but ate up the meat and potatoes baby food I bought here. He is still on pretty much all pureed food so we will stick with that until we get home. He did not gorge and stopped eating once he was full, good thing because I have no idea how much to feed him. J

He played with some toys and of course got a little over-stimulated so Mommy (that would be me J) picked him up and took the toys away and we just talked well, I talked and he listened, he is not very vocal but I am sure having a mommy that talks as much as I do will change that. I rocked him to sleep and he took a nap for about 2 hours. Now bedtime was a little different. He of course was scared and really did not want to go in the playpen to sleep, he wanted to just lay on me or sleep in the bed next to me, I let him fall a sleep on me then I tried to move him and he woke up, he did finally fall to sleep hard enough that I got him in the playpen and that is were he still is. I put him down about 9:30 and it is 7:15 so he is doing pretty well. He sleeps like a Tornado, he moves around so much, just like his Daddy.

I still cannot believe we have our baby, someone pinch me, I think I may be dreaming!