North Park

Today we packed up and headed to North Park in Pittsburgh. North Park has a lake in the middle of it with a walking/bike/motor trail that goes five miles around it. It also has picnic areas and playgrounds off to the sides of the motor trail. When Greg and I lived in Pittsburgh we spent loads of time at North Park with our dog Sadie. And since we have absolutely no parks in steubenville (sad but true), we took Toby up there for the afternoon. I have a ton of cute pics but here are just a few.

Look Mom it spins!

I can do it all by myself.

Wheeeee!!!

Munchin' on some bread

Me and my Dada, don't we make a great team?

Look Mama, a stick

A Mama and Toby shot

Toby enjoying the swing

Ooo, a different jungle gym

Peek - a - boo

I LOVE this tunnel!

Daddy seeking out the slightest bit a shade.

I know that juice is in here somewhere.

Riding back to the car.

Now let me tell you something...

Flirting with the girl in the car next to us.

So many more pictures and so little blog space. Maybe next time. Love to all!

Liliana's Two month update

We just received this months pictures of our beautiful baby girl!!! Yippee!! She is so damn cute. According to our agency director (who met with our foster mom)... "She has marks on her face - foster mom says she has sensitive skin and Dr Ranero gave her a cream to treat it. Foster mother only dresses her in cotton, no synthetics so as not to irritate the skin. She takes 5-6 oz per bottle and sleeps through the night. "talks" a lot, very responsive to her foster mother who says she is a very good girl, only cries for a bottle or diaper change, not a fussy baby at all." So all in all she is doing great and I need to plan a visit trip. I'm dying to meet this beautiful little girl. So without further ado here's the pics....

Fun in the yard

Who me? I didn't do it!

Picking apples with Dada

Do I play with the apples or the ball?

Pleeeease throw the ball Toby, Please!

What about now?

Tormenting Sadie by hiding the balls. Toby can you please throw them now?!?!

I know they're in there. You can't fool me.

99.99%

The DNA results are in and Lili matches her birth mother 99.99%. Yippee!!!! Now we wait for Preapproval. The wait has been around the 60 day mark so that would put us entering PGN (as long as family court goes smoothly) around the week of Oct 15. So far so good. On monday all the paperwork will be sent to the Secretary of State of Ohio so that it can be authenicated(this checks the notories and the clerk of courts) and makes them official documents. From there they go to the Guatemalan Consulate in Chicago to be legalized (recognized as official by the Guatemalan government). When this step is done it's off to Guatemala and off to Family court. Hopefully the documents will be in Guatemala in two weeks. So there's this week's update. Stay turned in for new pictures which we hope are arriving next week. Love to all!!!