More Trip Pics!

Here are some more trip pics - Natalie and Nora had a GREAT time playing with each other!



Happy Valentine's Day!


Happy St. Patrick's Day!




Happy Easter!




Such the Princess!




Amigas!

We got her BIRTH CERTIFICATE!

It's a miracle!  We were told her birth certificate would take anywhere from a month to 4 months. It took about 10 days!!  I flew home from Guat tonight (I'll post more pics tomorrow) totally and completely bummed.  I got through giving her back because I knew it was the last time I would ever have to do it, but the thought it could take until this summer was just a bummer.  You can't imagine my surprise when I got home and checked email and there it was...her birth certificate with our last name on her birth name and naming us as her parents.

She'll now go for her Guatemalan passport.

I can't tell you the relief I feel.....

Pics tomorrow, I promise!

Westin Day 2

Natalie slept for 12 hours and woke up the baby I remembered albeit with a little more ummm should we say "personality"?? She seems to be feeling better and resigned to the fact that I'm taking care of her for now... poor thing, so confusing. Come on you stupid birth certificate! Natalie and Nora have played alot today and hung out with a bunch of - mostly - boys! I'll post a few pics I have so far from today...

Good Morning Happy Baby!


Amigas...












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Westin Day 1

I flew in on Thursday night and got settled (my friend Amy flew in late) and we both decided to get adjoining rooms to help each other out.  On Friday I picked Natalie up at 10am and all was fine.  She is getting 2 teeth in and it soon became clear she was miserable, she wanted comforted and the person to comfort her WAS NOT ME.  Where was my happy laid back baby from all the previous visits?  It was a terrible day and I felt so awful for her...I told David (only half-jokingly) to get his butt on a plane down here.  She pretty much screamed and cried all day with her poor hand shoved in her mouth pushing down on her gums.  I gave her some Orajel and some ibuprofen and she fell asleep at 8:15pm.  Here are pics of Natalie and darling Nora on Day 1.   Natalie is getting BIG.  It's time for her to come home.  Let's just say her legs are big (think tree trunks).  Her legs no longer fit in the Bumbo, so I'm brining it home.  Amy had some Graduate Banana Puffs and this is her first real table food - and thank God she had them because it was one of the few distractions she could stand through her pain...

In the walker I brought her...




Amigas...






Just Perfect That's All...


Tree Trunks...


First Table Food...




Aunt Elaine's Longhorn Lovie...


Legs don't fit in the Bumbo...


Fightin' over the bag of diapers!