First Week With Marissa!!!!

Happy Anniversary to the Most Wonderful Husband and Father in the World!

Marissa found papa's glasses! She is such a hoot!

I can not believe we have already been here a whole week. It seems like forever to get here and now a whole week has gone by! Marissa had a fabulous day today after one major meltdown over food. We napped her and she woke up a new little girl. She actually played at the park, played non-stop with Lauren and get this didn't want to come inside when it was time for dinner!!!!! Wow! You can just see her trusting us so much more, but not other people. She completely relies on us and makes sure that we are within sight at all times. Today we were running downstairs to go potty. I was holding her. She was very happy and almost kissed me! She caught herself just in time and then flatten her lips, but hey I knew she wanted to if her guard wasn't there!!! It will come down in time. She can be such a cuddlebug!

Had another teary eyed moment today when I went to put her new sandals on. It was the first time that I really looked at her little toes. Her toenails were literally grown over the top of her toes and into the skin on the bottom of her toes. I do not know how she could walk and wear shoes the way they were.

A good friend in Roseville has contacted Lauren's pediatric dentist to see if they are willing to help out with the 30% that our dental insurance will not cover for Marissa's teeth. She clearly is going to have to have several thousands dollars with of work done. I hope they will agree to it.

Obviously Marissa has not ever been to a park. She has no idea how to play on playground equipment. She can not climb up the stairs to go down slides. Today we saw much progress, she actually wanted to try and climb up the steps with me holding on tightly. She just doesn't have the concept or strength.

Lauren has many mosquito bites including one on her eye. We tease her about getting in a fight with a cute Guatemalan boy.

Hoping and praying for our PINK which means our embassy appt time tomorrow. We will find out at 3:30. If not, then we will not find out until Monday. Once you get your time they are running about two weeks from the day you receive PINK. Of course, we will beg and plead for a sooner appt, but may not be able to do anything about it. Robert is insistant that he will not leave me here alone. So he and Lauren are going to have to stick it out if we need to stay longer. Please everyone pray for pink tonight. I just wanna go home. Besides my sweet peaches, Kevin misses his momma and wants to be able to spend time wiht Mairssa before he leaves for college. Kevie, you are going to be head over heels in love with her!