Cold and Windy... I Need A Jacket!

Okay you all know I had to at least give myslf a shout out!! Another birthday overseas, and K will be on the road again, so another birthday that I will be spending alone, with the children. Yeah!! WewhHewh!!! I dont know if anyone knows of SpryoGyra they will actually be in town the night of my birthday but we wont be going because it is a late show.. I did comtiplate going, because the ad does say all ages, imagine all of us at that concert. It is the final day of a 3-day jazz series that is going on in Kiev. http://www.jazzinkiev.com/

I know my mom hated that color of font, so changing it for her. We managed to get up and out today by 1145am, to go and visit the British school here, so far they are the top pick, and are the only school that has offered a discount for multi-children attendance. Inayah decided to stay in the classroom with the teacher while the rest of us went through the remainder of the school, so like her to want to be alone and in a classroom. The class sizes are small in all the grades and nice mixture of boys and girls as well. After that we went to T.G.I.Friday's, I had a chicken salad... not what I wanted but trying to eat healthier. The children were behaved and we all managed to squeze into a booth with Isa sitting at the end in a highchair.

Idreis is at the dentist still, it is 630pm now and his appointment was at 4pm, hoping they are just in traffic. Oh!!, the traffic... now I have driven in plenty of rush hours, Istanbul, New York City with Charles & Arlene, and Los Angeles, but the traffic here is ridiculous and not just at a particiular time of day but all day, and seems to be in all areas. So glad to have a driver and be able to take a quick power nap in the van. Today we actually traveled in two taxis, and they drove us to all of our appointments. Not sure what is going on for dinner, but Isa is begging me to make oatmeal... Not gonna happen.

Still have not made it back to the zoo, but did find a dolphin show that is daily. Also found a great website http://www.inyourpocket.com/ and it has all the restaurants you would ever want to know about. I even was able to find Indian, a New York Steakhouse and Turkish.. We went to Tike when Rosa was here, and this is Turkish as well, we knew of it from Istanbul. I miss Turkish food, it was so nice to have that meal together.

Inara is teething, one of the bottom teeth has cut through and the gums for the second one are just very swollen, she is still in good spirits and smiled at me this morning when she first woke up. Frozen washcloth in apple juice and also just me massaging her gums seems to work well. Still no crawling, but getting a lot of stomach time as needed for her age.
Back from the dentist and has to gargle and brush 6 times a day.. dont know how that is gonna happen as we barely can get him to brush twice a day..

Looks like dessert is happening before dinner tonight since K just brought home popsicles.
Still dont know about dinner plans..

Glad to have my sweater on, going to make some tea and relax.

Embarrassed to say thatwe found out that Fridays delivers and so we had that for dinner as well, on my defense I did try and search the internet for about an hour for a Chinese place that delivers but was unsuccessful. We need to go grocery shopping because it is getting bare inside of the fridge. Oatmeal is running out and the Nutrigrain bars are gone..

The Six ended up watching Finding Nemo on Ishamel's laptop because for some reason it does not work on the dvd player that we bought over here. It is funny when I took this picture I did not even ask them to pose and how ironic they are all propped up the same staring into movie land. Idreis and Ishmael had a sit-up contest, Idreis won with 55, it was too funny, I will have to video tape the next round.