Home on Monday!!

Yesterday we submitted all of the paperwork for the boys' visas.  We were at the Embassy for a few hours, and it was pretty tough keeping the kids occupied while we were there.  But, we will have the visas today at 3:30...yay! 

I have been working on arranging our travel home, and it has been a little more challenging (and expensive!) than we initially thought.  We could leave as early as Saturday, but many of the flights were full on Saturday and Sunday.  So now it is looking pretty certain that we will leave Monday morning, bright and early, and arrive back in Duluth on the late flight from Chicago at 11:15.  I am pretty sure it is going to be a challenging day for all of us, but then we will be home, and have reinforcements on the ready!!!

After the Embassy, we took the kids on a long walk and went to Mimo's for ice cream.  I'm not sure what mine was called, but it tasted kind of like egg nog with raisins in it.  It was delicious!  Jason gave both Juan Manuel and Santiago a coin to have, and now they can't wait to go to the mall and use it in the gumball machines.

After Mimo's, we came back to the hostel, and all of the kids here ran and played and had a great time.  There is a new family here that arrived yesterday.  They are adopting 2 boys (Cristian and Fabian, ages 10 and 12, I think), and had hosted the boys last summer through the program Kid Save.  Cristian had a birthday this past Monday, so they brought party favors to share with all of the kids, and there was a wonderful birthday cake too.  I will post pictures later (Christian is down for his nap right now, and the cord for the camera is in the drawer right next to his head!)  :)

Yesterday Christian was a pooping machine!!  (Remember the giant lunch he had the day before?)  He dirtied 3 diapers in one hour.  I told Santiago and Juan Manuel that Christian was a "maquina de po-po" and they laughed their heads off.

I will post again later once we have confirmed our flights, and hopefully add pictures from the party too!