It rained for most of the day today. In the morning we were able to get to the park for a little while before the rain started. One of the German families here is adopting a 3 year old little girl, and although our boys love to play with Wendy, I think that her parents are worried that our kids are too rough and tumble. We had to laugh...today the dad said that he is worried because when they had presentation day, Wendy was physically perfect, but now she has two scraped knees and a scraped elbow, and they are worried about that. For our family with 3 rough boys, if we make it through the day without any major medical catastrophe, we thank our lucky stars...funny how different our perspectives are! Wendy just loves to play with our boys though, and is kind of mesmerized by them, but we try to keep them from getting too wild when they play with her.
We took the kids outside to paint today and I think they loved it. They kept asking why we couldn't just paint in our room, and I tried to explain to them that we didn't want paint on the floor, the walls, the bed, etc. They don't seem to realize how messy they can be, and didn't seem to make the connection. We found a nice spot at a table under an umbrella and stayed out there for about an hour.
We had to have some of our laundry sent out. It cost about $30 for a big bag of laundry (probably about 2 loads of laundry). Nice to have clean clothes to wear again. We wash lots of things in the sink, but it just isn't the same.
We tried to keep ourselves occupied in the room, but it was tough not to be able to go to the pool or the park. We watched Shrek, colored, played Memory, and ordered room service. We kind of tricked the kids. I ordered a salad off of the menu, and it comes with french fries...go figure. But we kept the french fries covered and didn't let the kids know that we had them. We made sure that they ate lots of healthy wholesome foods before we revealed the french fries, and then only let each boy have a few. Juan Manuel came up and gave Jason the biggest hug and thanked him for the papitas...I don't think I've ever seen him so grateful for anything else yet!
The weather looks like it will remain rainy for the next couple of days, but we are hoping that there will be enough of a break to get out of our room so that we don't go too stir-crazy. Tomorrow will be a busy day for us anyways though. In the morning, we have to go to the courthouse to sign some documents. In the afternoon we have our Integracion meeting with the Defender of Minors. They will separate us from the kids and ask us all how it's going, make sure that it is in everyone's best interests to move forward with the adoption. Hopefully there won't be any surprises and everything will proceed smoothly.
We showed the kids pictures from some of our previous camping trips, and they were thrilled to see them. Santiaguito always looks at the fish pictures and tells us that he wants to catch a fish much bigger than ours. My dad has a new little fishing partner, I think. I asked Santiago today which name he prefers, Santi, Santiago, or Santiaguito, and he said Santi, so we'll see if he still likes it in a day or two. Things are always changing when you are 4!
Wish us luck tomorrow at our meeting. If all goes well, our case will be submitted to the courts on Friday, and we should know our court assignment by Monday. Then we just wait to get before the judge for Sentencia, and hope for lots of sunny days in the mean time!!!
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