Busy, busy
Just recently I got my hair chopped off. For some reason I like to do this every few years. Remember last time when I got it cut really short in Moscow? It’s been falling out a lot from breastfeeding, and long hairs everywhere were getting annoying. And the static will be starting soon, and anyone with long hair know that gets annoying too. And even though it looks like I darkened my hair, I did no such thing. Even though you can’t see it all, what do you think?
Happy Keith even with his leg stuck
Future guitar player? I hope so. She loves music just like daddy and sister.
See those marks? Yes, they are teeth marks from the budding guitar player.
She did spit it back out after finding out that it doesn’t taste very good.
This little one likes finding new rocks outside. And I guess she didn’t want this new rock to get away.
This is one of her favorite activities. She always wants to help carry him for me.
She loves her brother!
Our three little cutie pies!
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Besides being busy with these kiddos, taking them outside a couple times a week, keeping the apartment clean and tidy, I am studying at the University two days a week in the afternoons. Micah is busy going 5 days a week in the mornings and doing homework every day. And we are always trying to meet new people here as well. We have introduced ourselves to our neighbors and we are hoping some relationships develop there. Please be thinking of us in this area.
For those interested in the weather here, it has been averaging about -10 degrees Celsius lately. Today we got more snow as well, maybe just half an inch or so. It seems a lot nicer with snow on the ground, keep the dirt on the roads and the on the playgrounds to a minimum.
Four months
Keith is such a good baby boy. He is really happy and content, almost all the time. He is drooling a lot lately. If I don’t put a bib on him, he gets his shirts really wet. He has been getting his legs stuck in the slats of his crib, usually when he is waking up. But it doesn’t seem to bother him too much. He is started to be very vocal, especially when he is tired. The girls love him so much, they love kissing him before he goes down for every nap and between his naps as well. Violet can really get him to laugh and smile, it’s really cute.
Outside of the city
Not too long ago, we went on an outing with some of our friends here. They took us to visit a place called Chochur Muran (Чочур Муран) which is an ethnographic complex. Ethnography is the branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.
Walking down the road toward the complex
View from the road
At the entrance
Entrance into the complex
Dogsled
The girls are ready to go!
A yurt
A Balakhan – traditional dwelling place from long ago
The ducks were walking on the frozen water
They had lots of cages full of Laikas a type of Siberian Husky
Six Sandowiches 