Mid-Day Update

Instead of my typical eyes half shut blogging about our time here in Bogota and our wonderful experiences with Gabriela when I should probably be asleep, I thought I'd throw in a middle of the day post for everyone. Monica and Gabriela are out with our lawyer at the Registration office (birth certificates) because we realized last night that there was an error in Monica's information on the one that they issued last Friday. It shouldn't be a big problem to fix but it's certainly better that we do that now than later. We did a lot of paper chasing yesterday and had hoped for some news on Monica's Cedula, but the only news we received there was that it wasn't quite ready yet and that it would be ready very soon. Let's all hope that the nice people who are working to get Monica's cedula complete quickly will be successul very soon.

Once we do receive the Cedula, we'll make a quick trip to the Colombian passport office for passports for both Monica & Gabriela. Once we have Gabriela's passport, we can schedule our doctor's appointment with the US Embassy doctor who has to give Gabriela a quick physical & then on to the US Embassy for her Visa. This may or maynot sound like much but we are in the final stages really so as soon as we have the cedula we can really start working again and get home to all of our wonderful family & friends.

In other news, on Saturday a wonderful couple from Colorado who are part of our Colombian Adoption group for Colombian families will be arriving here in Bogota and will be receiving their son on Monday afternoon. We are very excited to meet with them in person finally and very happy for them as well for their new addition to their family. See you soon Melinda & Moises!

I've included a nice picture that Amy took while she was here of Gabriela Sophia in her Papi's big arms as well as a lovely photo of Mami y su hija.