Spotted baby and a dog in the car

Day 26

This is one of the pictures posted just at the entrance to Garrett's room at the babyhouse. The caregivers, either optimistic or unconcerned with the sign, continually have the arrow pointing to the happy child. Today, however, we felt pretty safe in turning the arrow down to the sad face. All of the babies in Garrett's ward, my little pie included, have a bad cold. They were all coughing and sniffling. Additionally, all the little ones have spots on their face from a generalized skin infection that is being passed among them. They look pretty pitiful.

So Garrett didn't really feel like playing again today.

So we just sort of cuddled until our time was up. When we got back to the car, we had a surprise in store. Nursultan, our crafty driver, had once again used Makhabbat's absence to transport a passenger home with us. This time, however, instead of loud women, he had a dog in the backseat! It was in a crate in the backseat and everytime we landed in a particularily big pothole, the poor creature howled miserably. I think that it was as confused about its presence in the car as we were. Never a dull moment.
In other news, last night's snow storm has dried into a cold fierce wind. Even though branches are cracking and adults are rushing to their homes, Calvin is still playing cars in the front yard with Ali and his sister. Yesterday we bought Ali a small toy car as a present and today Calvin ran out to see Ali shouting, "Ali! Ali! Padarak for you!" It was so cute.
Paka,
Becca