And So It Begins

We leave our apartment in Karaganda tomorrow (Tuesday) and fly to Almaty. The end of the beginning starts then. Over a two-day period we transition to the part of the world in which Monika and John are comfortable. And Alexey comes to a world he doesn’t know exists.

Our time in Kazakhstan was one in which we could focus on becoming a family. It was a time without any distractions or external pressures. Local problems and inconveniences simply were a part of our family-building process. Monika and John could focus on learning about Alexey and he could focus on learning about Mama and Dada. Monika and John watched with amazement, amusement, and sometimes disgruntlement as Alexey learned new things every day. Respectively, in the past week Alexey has learned how to pick up food in his hand and eat it with all five teeth, how to throw things backwards over his head, and how to do a raspberry (ptttht!) with food in his mouth.

So in two days we will be back in Canada and continue our lives as a family, charting a new course with a new crew member. Alexey will meet his new relatives for the first time and make a whole lot of new friends, even though they all speak a funny language.

We will try to post to the blog from Almaty and Frankfurt as we travel home.

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