An Easy Day

Today was sort of uneventful. After breakfast I had Maria do the homework I had written out for her the day before. I want her to review it every day. She has lesson again tomorrow at 10:00AM. (I want to thank everyone who has been praying for the practice. Steve told me this morning that we got 3 new patients in the office today. Very important for us. I thought it would be good to share as God is answering, prayers are working so please keep praying.) After homework we headed down to the mall so see about hunting for a stroller for J.P. I can't believe how expensive they are here! You have to get one with "huffy" wheels or the sidewalks and walkways here eat them for lunch. It was challenging looking for one without someone with me who speaks Spanish as I could ask how much but, not: do you have one in a box, do I have to take the floor model. do I have to put it together?? I thought I would have someone come back with me to get it. On the way home the crazy weather started blowing in- sprinkles then cool breeze then sprinkles again. We managed to make it home pretty dry. After returning the kids played for a little bit and then Ms. Betty told me of another place near by that I could look for a stroller. They did have some but, I wasn't sure how much I wanted to spend on one here they range from about $60 - $260. Isn't that a little expensive?? I don't know I've never had to buy a stroller before. I didn't want to do anything without talking with Steve first so I didn't get one yet. In the morning one of the locals is gonna be here to take the other family out and he knows where all the cheaper stores are so he is gonna give me some ideas as to where else to look first. Just thought it would be easier to get one here rather than have Steve try to drag one on the plane. (Besides there are luggage restrictions. ) We stopped at a little restraunt next door and got some empenadas to bring home for lunch. I also introduced the kids to apples and peanut butter (hey sis, they like it too! Teaching them the same crazy thing I taught Blake! :)) While they were eating Silvia and Jamier our agency people here in Bogata stopped in for a second. They brought me some forms that I needed for us to sign when Steve comes for the Embassy. They didn't stay long. Afterwards it reminded me that I still needed to check on the kids shot records to make sure that they had everything that they were required to have to "check out" of the embassy. As it turns out it looks like J.P. has had everything required but, Maria needs a lot of stuff I think. The Dr. provided to us by our agency is going to stop by on Thursday at 3:00PM to take a look at the records, give me her address, schedule the appointment for the visit and let me know how much everything is going to be. I plan to make the appointment for the office visit for one day that Steve is here in case one of them have a reaction to the shots. I received an email from Luci today that said that she will email me when she speaks to Dollys our attorney this afternoon. I have not received the email as of yet. I may try to call Luci tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last official day of phase 3. Then it is suppose to go to phase 4 where the judge gives his final approval called sentencia. He has up to 10 days to do so. I understand that the average timeframe for this part of the process is 3 to 4 days. Please pray for 1 or 2 days. Steve will be here the day after tomorrow and it would be neat if we can get it quick. It's about an hour or so before dinner and the kids were getting wild so I decided to take them to the indoor McDonalds "playground" as it was still raining on and off to let them play out some of this energy they had bottled up inside them. Dinner consisted of J.P.s favorite, soup (I think it was celery), CARNE, rice, potato/onion/cheese caserole and brochlii/cheese caserole. It was delious as usual. After dinner we came back to the room and it was our usual routine. Jammies, a little TV, we have implimented prayers then bed. I usually get my emailing and catching up with family done about this time as well. My mom and dad got to talk to the kids a little tonight. They stayed still for a couple of minutes in order to do so. Very unusual. Tomorrow, Maria has her lesson so I think we will skip the the mountain tour we were invited to go with the other family here. Will probably wait for Steve to do something if we decide we are gonna do any tours at all while we are here. While Maria has lesson maybe J.P. and I will go get his stroller. He absolutely loves it!! Maybe it is because he has never had one? He thinks it is a car or something! I think most children his age don't want to be in them about now but, luckely he does. If we get the stroller I may try to take them either to the other parks again or if it is raining maybe just to movies. I guess we will wait to see what tomorrow brings. By the way go to 6/21's date (I think there are 2 posts) as I have just added a video clip of J.P. and Maria dancing one of the last nights we were with Luci and Manuel. It's awesome. Good night all. Lots of Luv. W