I am typing this directly into the blog since I have a few free moments....our first trip with Erto to Jo'burg to see the doctor was a success - he came back with two fully casted legs and appointments for the next 6 weeks. At the doctor's office, we met a woman who was kind enough to offer  housing for Erto and Cathrine over the next two months - they just have to buy their own food and diapers for him, since he can't get the cast wet.  She will make sure they get to their appointments. So now, we are just having to pay for bus fares back and forth from here, but she won't be going every week, taxi fares from bus station to this lovely woman's house, food and diaper money.  There will be a small surgery later on and I am still hoping there is enough money for that. So now, if you have wanted to donate but just didn't do it yet, or you want to donate again, this would be the time. click on the photo of erto and his mom on my blog and it will take you to the web site.

We had a lovely trip to Joburg by the way. much better than one would expect with a 2 year old on a 6 hour bus ride. He got cranky on the way back (so did I, actually because the bus would start beeping every time it slowed down and that with his crying and the bumpy road..) but I realised after a while that he was just bored (just like the rest of us) and I handed him my cheap 10 pula bracelet and it kept him serenely quiet from there on out. wish i had done it 2 hours earlier. told his mom he is bored and needs entertainment, just like the rest of us. only difference is he will scream bloody murder when he is tired and we adults don't get to.  More to follow. but  got to run.  Thanks for listening.