Daddy stays home, part 2

I awoke this morning to my poor husband saying, "Boy, am I hot." And sure enough he was. I got out the Cameron thermometer and he had a 101.1 fever! No baby house for you! He said he was up around 1 or 2 a.m. and was freezing to death, so I'm guessing the fever must have come down by the time I woke up this morning since he was no longer shivering. He took ibuprofen and a Cipro right away and he also drank a glass of orange juice. He reports this afternoon, that he feels much improved, though his glands are still swollen.

So, we did a mommy solo act. Cam didn't seem to mind too much, though I think he would agree that it's more fun with Daddy around. He ate well and quickly and we did some laps outside and played on the floor some more.

At lunch, Nastia and I went to try to fax the docs that the county needs for our grant. We went to an internet cafe that she thought would work. Turns out their phone line went down this morning. She asked if there were any alternatives and then we walked down the street to an office building. When we went inside, she asked the guard if he knew of any offices with a fax machine. He directed us to one on the second floor. So, we went up there and she asked one of the men there if we could use the fax machine. It sounded like he was thinking about it at first and then she mentioned that we were going to fax the US. This was followed by a big fat NYET! Fortunately, there was a man of reason to the right of the guy who said NYET and Nastia was able to convince him that it wouldn't cost anything since we'd use my Nursat card (a Kaz calling card basically). He thought about it for a minute (and she smiled at him, which helped, I'm sure) and he said okay. We did our fax and I gave the man 200 tenge for his trouble. How about that for an adventure? Go Nastia!!

The Canadian woman was successful at court yesterday so she and Stephen came and picked up his little brother this morning. Things are a lot quieter now and the only foreigners at the Baby House are our travel partners and us.

Here's to a quick recovery for Daddy!!