The wait is over

We had our first spill of blood today. We have been placing chairs on their sides to block Cameron into the living room. Well, he thinks it’s great fun to pull up on them and stand there. He’s able to sit himself back down 90% of the time, but today, he decided to do a face plant on the chair on his way down and split open his lower lip and he may have injured one of the new upper teeth, but he wouldn’t let us look at it. Buffy tried to put ice on the lip and he freaked out. In fact, once Brent was out of the shower and able to come to the rescue, he looked at Cam and said to Buffy, “Does he want to come to me?” and at that same moment, Cam reached for him to get away from the crazy woman with the cold stuff. We did manage to get some Orajel on his upper gums and that seemed to quiet him down fairly quickly. Once the bleeding stopped, he was fine. In fact, he was back to putting blocks in his mouth, etc. Hopefully, we can get a look at the tooth tomorrow (certainly, that will traumatize him), it too was bleeding – though we’re not sure if it was his tooth or the gum nearby.

The other event of the day was a trip to the notary to sign a Power of Attorney so that the paperwork we need can be completed and we can get the heck out of Dodge! Still no word on whether we’ll leave Karaganda on Saturday or Sunday, but we’re giving our coordinator the cash for the plane tickets tomorrow, so a decision must be imminent. The next stop after this is Almaty.

Oh, and as of midnight tonight, we’re officially a family of three! Aleksandr Mikhailovich Danilov (a.k.a. Cameron Aleksandr DeWitt “Cam” “Cam-man” “Camster” “Cameroni” “Sasha” and “Sashka”) is recognized as our son by Kazakh law. Though we’ve thought of him that way since May…