LILY IS COMING HOME

Our last Visit Trip

It was great to see our Lily Bug and to know it was our last visit. Next time we see her, we will not ever give her back. We look forward to returning very soon and bringing her home!

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Hello from Antigua

Hello Everyone,
Sorry I have not been able to post. My mother posted for me on Aaron's blog on Thanksgiving Day. I have since been able to post there once myself.

We were lucky enough to get Lily on her 7 month birthday! She is teething! And, a bit cranky from it. She is now almost 16lbs. She is now eating Gerber baby food at lunch and some rice cereal at breakfast. I tried to give her eggs but she didn't like it. She is no longer waking up for feedings and sleeps great through the night.

We got some good news!!! Our agency emailed us on Tuesday evening to let us know that Lily's birth certificate is in hand! We now just have to wait for Aaron's and as I posted on his blog it should be ready on the 27th. It will take about 1 to 2 weeks for the DNA process and then another 1 to 2 weeks for the U.S Embassy to issue us an appointment. We should be returning very soon! And, we are very happy about that!

We got a nice surprise this morning over breakfast. One of the volcanos outside our hotel room erupted! Whew, that was neat. Unfortunately, for us, it was only smoke. But still was something we never expected to see. Dale got plenty of pictures of that.

We will have to post pictures next week. We forgot to pack the cable to transfer the pitures to our computer. And, our computer cannot directly read our new cameras memory card. Sorry about that but everyone is doing great and I can't wait to share the pictures from this beautiful week.

Love,
Dawn

Video: Meeting Lily

Returning to Guatemala!

Lily, I'm coming back! I can't stand it without you and Aaron. I can't wait for you to get home and for our family to be complete here. But for now, our family is only complete when we are in Guatemala and I have to get back. We have been home only 4 days and already we have planned our return trip. We leave on November 20th for 7 days. Lily will turn 6 months old while we are with her on Nov 21st. How great is that! I won't miss it. And, Kya will turn 4 years old while we are there. It will be a special trip. I look forward to getting my babies back in my arms.

More Lily Pictures

We are home and it's terrible being away from the babies. I don't want to post much about it but I did want to give you some more pictures of our precious babies. Here are some of my favorite of Lily.

First Full Day With Lily

We cannot leave the hotel since we do not have custody of the babies. We were able to get a family of 6 (showers, bottles, etc) all ready though in 1 hour to go to breakfast. I thought that was pretty good. They have a nice breakfast buffet here. We hung out there until it closed down. We met and talked to several people down there to pass the time. Then we hung out in the hotel room for about 4hrs for naps and lunch. Dinner was again at the buffet restaurant but we didn’t really know what any of it was (Friday fish dishes) so we ordered club sandwiches off the menu.



Lily was great all day. She whines just a tiny bit when she needs something but that’s about it. We had her giggling out loud. She has such a cute laugh and she smiles back at you whenever you smile at her. She loves to dance and is just content as could be just about wherever you place her.

Here are a few pictures from our first full day with Lily, Friday – October 12, 2007.