"Manana"

Monica and our lawyer went to courthouse this morning and unfortunately the judges order isn't complete yet but they asked that we come back tomorrow morning and try again. Monica also followed up on her Cedula which we need in order to finalize some of the other documents for Gabriela here in Colombia. It is still in process as well but they think it will be ready next week. They are trying to get her Cedula investigation complete as quickly as possible when it normally takes much longer. We are hoping that we can receive it next week so we can finalize our other paperwork as well.

Otherwise, I worked today as usual and stayed home with Gabriela who is feeling the pain from those teeth that keep threatening to come in. We later went out for a bit of food at "El Corral" and ran into some of the adopting families that we got to know while staying at the hotel. It was wonderful to see how they are doing, especially the family from Norway who adopted their son at a little over 2 years old. He was having a tough time at first but he looks like he is doing great and is responding to them very well and is even starting to pick up the language at bit too.

I'm working on a couple of new videos but as you know it's hard to capture the best moments on video but we took a couple tonight and hopefully I'll get them ready and posted to youtube.com soon so I can show them to all of you on our blog.

We greatly miss all of you and are increasingly excited about the day when we are able to come home so that all of you can meet our daughter in person and see that we aren't good enough writers or photographers to do her justice. Kids are cute and Gabriela certainly is doing well in the cute department, but it's her personality that has everyone she meets in love with her in seconds. Now I know I had been using the right words when I would say "I can't wait to MEET my child" or "MEET my daughter" because she is already a person with her little personality and it's been amazing to meet her and to love her as we do.

Tonights photos include Gabriela playing with a couple toys before she decided to try to go mobile. She rolled onto the wood floor and then scooted backwards slowly making her way under the chairs before turning over and playing with her pants legs for bit. The other photo was from just a few hours ago, with Gabriela sitting on Papi's chest and smiling and laughing... enjoy and good night.