Missing you all!

Well, I'm sorry it's taken me awhile to update the blog... we've had a few eventful days around here. On Thursday we went with a few other families to the Botero Museum in Downtown Bogota. It was very beautiful. For those of you who are not familiar with Fernando Botero's work, he's the guy who paints the pictures of fat people. They also had many other original works of well-known artists like Monet and Picasso. We were so excited to get in for free and then we walked to a very nice restaurant called, La Tipografia. We all had something we've been missing... chicken! The hotel serves "carne" all the time! It was delicious!
Yesterday was a great day. Our friend Gloria has been raving about this famous restaurant called Andres Carne de Res in Chia, which is about 40 minutes outside of Bogota. It's only open on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. So, we all hopped into a taxi and went. The restaurant is amazing! When you first pull up, it looks like a junkyard... it's a long wooden structure with metal "art" all around it. When we went inside, the artistic quality is so cool. Apparently Andres is an artist and he used all sorts of stuff to decorate the restaurant. There were mannequin legs hanging from the ceiling, small lights decorating all light fixtures, and there was artwork everywhere! The menus were arranged in metal tins that you had to scroll through. We basically ordered appetizers, a few different types of meats, grilled veggies and also a few different beverages (their sangria was amazing!) and of course, delicious desserts all for $55 US (per couple). They even had baskets brought to our table so that the babies could sleep if they needed to. We thought it would be really cute to sit all of the babies in one basket and take a picture. That's the picture you see up top. From back to front the babies are Aly (Becky and Scott's baby girl who we kid around and say is Josh's girlfriend. She's so cute, she's quite the flirt!) Megan (Pat and Elena's baby who is 3 months old. She's is so sweet!) Zach (Gloria and Doug's baby, who was born the same day as Josh. He is so much fun!) and of course you know who! We sat near a craft table for the kids so they could go and paint pictures and create small keepsake boxes. The babies all behaved so well! They name all of the tables... ours was Mia, and they brought the receipt in a small metal tube that's a piece of art too. We posed for a quick family picture at the table as you can see!
It was a great day and we stayed there for about 4 hours... we got back just in time for dinner, which of course, we only ate a little. Here if you don't eat, Juanita, the hotel cook will come up to you and drill you as to why you didn't like the food. It can be pretty intimidating so, I always try to eat at least an acceptable amount. That's pretty much a Hispanic thing, I guess!
Today we are just hanging out. Josh has been a real trooper. He's now still waking up at least once each night to take a bottle. We're not complaining though because since he's a fussy eater, it gives him extra nutrients. He's also eating more solid food. We're still feeding him the butternut squash and bananas and soon we're going to try avocado. He's growing by the minute! Some couples who have left on side trips for a week and come back have said that he's longer... and we've compared him to the other babies his age and he does seem to be at least a "head" taller.
He's more active too. When we do playtime on the bed, he'll be laying on his stomach and turn himself over without our help. He smiles super big for Daddy, like every time he sees him! I'm also very excited to say that he's smiling at others more too.
We adults are finding ways to keep ourselves entertained after the babies go to bed. On Thursday night we watched American Idol, Survivor, CSI and Without a Trace... we were so excited that they were in English. Our friend Gloria and I practically ate in front of the TV to see the latest American Idol to be voted off. Last night was card night. I learned to play a game called Polish Hearts and then we played Uno Attack (just like Uno only faster and a few different rules). Overall, it's been a nice couple of days here. We've had two families get sentencia this week. One left today (after being here 6 weeks) and another will leave next week (7 week stay total for them).
We've also had quite a few families come in too, which has been nice. There's a couple here now also from Wisconsin who adopted a daughter 4 years ago from CRAN (Sarasol is her name) and now adopted another daugher, Isabel (3 months). The new family who accompanied us to Andres Carne de Res yesterday is from Chicago. She is Mexican and he's Irish (looks like Irial, but bigger). Their names are Elena and Pat. They adoped Aaron a few years ago and now adopted Megan. It's great to meet so many new families and get to share with them. After spending so much time with them, you feel like you truly know them!
Well, not much else to tell... we're still waiting for an update on our process. We're hoping that things will develop in God's timing... hopefully soon! Besides Gloria (who's been here 9 weeks) we are the next family up. But then again, we've learned enough to know that it doesn't work that way around here. Lots of love to you all! xoxo