Earthquake Zone

I leave next week to pick up my son. My Son. Wow. That term, that context, it still doesn't seem real. I haven't been able to shake the "surrealness"of this process yet. When I'm in Kaz, it is a different world. What is happening there is not in any way connected to life back in Colorado. You know, sort of like what happens in Kaz, stays in Kaz? And while I am home between trips, it feels like Kaz, well it just happened in Kaz, but is not real here. My two worlds will collide very shortly. I'm expecting a magnitude 9 on the Richter scale, with severe aftershocks for weeks and months to come. But the house won't come tumbling down, just the intangible, and maybe partly tangible, world as I know it. The expectations, the emotions, the exhaustion, the elation. I'm ready. Rock my world, Brady boy!

So while I still have time to sit at the computer and play in the virtual world, here are some pics and (finally!) a video or two from the bonding days.

This is Kara and her daughter Sophia, along with Claudine and her son, Eliya, who celebrated their Gotcha Days last week. The mosquitoes had attacked them both the previous night. Poor babies! Both kids are also from Brady's baby room.




The woman in this video is Kara's Mom. Brady LOVED her! She could make him giggle and squirm all over. If you listen carefully you can hear him giggling as he is crawling. This is from the last (court) trip.





Here is Brady thoroughly enjoying chatting with the sofa throw during our bonding period in early August. He would usually start bouncing, but I was never able to catch it on video, which is kinda sad, because it was very cute.