Our Paperwork Is Officially Moving Forward Here!!!!

Well, our 9 a.m. meeting at the ICBF office here in Pereira went well...it was about a half hour of speaking with the psychologist then social worker. Actually, our discussion surrounded Jonatan's adjustment so far...is he eating? how is he sleeping? does he favor one of us over the other? how is his health? do we have any questions? how do we feel about the process so far? do we want to proceed with the legal process? I think our eyes about bulged out of our heads when we were asked this last question, because the psychologist started to laugh at the odd and commical way we were charading our answer to her! The translater, Mauricio, seemed to find this pretty funny too!

Hector, our lawyer, is now off to his office and then the judge's office with our paperwork. He said that he expects the judge to take about a week to complete his part of the paperwork. The other two major pieces of paperwork that we need take care of here is Jonatan's Colombian passport and his birth certificate. In the meantime, we are also working with Lucia, the CHI in-country program director, in order to get several more copies of David's birth certificate.

Here is a fun picture we took when we got back from our integration meeting...we were trying to get Jonatan to smile for the camera, although he still does not seem to get that idea when both of us are sitting next to him...soooooooooo, the next best thing was to make faces and sounds with our tongue...he loves that...although it doesn't make for the best picture! Enjoy anyway! As a side note...Debi, I am posting a few pictures for you to see the shoes that you got Jonatan! They are absolutely perfect! He loves them and will often point to them and say "vroom, vroom".