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Alright we'll say a little more.

I felt remarkably better this morning, not normal, but not cold/flu like as I did yesterday. We began the day by shopping for a new cell phone as we lost ours the other day. KJ contends it was stolen while I cling to lost, either way it is seemingly forever gone and now has been replaced by a red and white version of its former self.

It is a simple Nokia and cost us right around US$65 by the time we got a SIM card(service carrier and phone #). I purchased the original phone (same model) in Uganda a year ago for roughly the same price.

A cell phone is a wonderful thing to have here especially since our apartment phone has no answering machine. Incoming calls are free and so anytime our coordinator, translator, driver, or friends call us it costs us nothing. Folks back home could also call us on our cell phone but as iChat is free, simple, and allows us to see each other as well as talk in real time, paying for a call seems outdated.

The Baby House Playroom was a desolate place today, as we were the only three there. One of the groups of children at the Baby House is experiencing a wave of Chicken Pox and so all the children in that group are quarantined in their suite of rooms and not allowed to mingle with other groups. Fortunately the family was able to visit with their child still, though I would assume that they will not be back in the playroom any time soon.

The Belgian family was also not here today and I assume it is because either they or their daughter were sick. As you might imagine things cycle around from child to family and back again quite frequently, and I think only leaving the Baby House altogether fixes any of that.

Aitugan is still growling through congested lungs, but seems otherwise healthy. She was very giggly and silly today, and I think that to some extend it was because, as we were the only ones in the playroom, her mom and I were a bit more animated and goofy as well.

Aitugan reeled in delight upon discovering that her whole hand could disappear inside dad's mouth.

Mom, Dad, Daughter - it is surprisingly easy to transition to using these terms, though I still can't use them unintentionally. That will come in time. Tomorrow marks the completion of our first month together, as we began our visits on 01 Nov.

Barring Aitugan's coming down with the chicken pox and being unable to fly because of it, we should be past the halfway point of our in country adoption process. That is exciting. Take Care.