Day 17 - December 23

Today was Eva's 8 month birthday. We started the day by going to a wonderful puppet show put on my many of the doctors/caretakers at the baby house. There were alot of kids there and everyone had a ball. Eva loved the music and performance. After the puppet show we went to the playroom. Very quiet day in the playroom. Eva did alot of chewing on her teething ring today. We played with her favorite music toy and played w/Kia for a little bit. We were given a bottle of tea for Eva (she had hickups). Well, they went away before we were able to give her bottle to her. Well, Momma knocked it over, the nipple fell off and Momma sat in it. Wasn't too pleasant! LOL

We had to go through all of our "items" for escorting with Natasha. She had some giggles after seeing how much clothes we actually brought and were planning on putting in the bag for escort. She weeded all the stuff down quite a bit but end result is we still need to go out and buy a bigger bag for all of Eva's items to be put in.

After we left the baby house we took a journey downtown. Carl and Gretchen had to return a winter hat they bought for Kia - it was too small. We went there and then to the mall to browse around. We stopped at a Pub Johnnie Walkers for some lunch. The food was OK, we like the hotel food better lol but it was a nice change. Then back to the hotel to meet up w/the driver.

The afternoon visit to the baby house was another great visit. Momma gave Eva the bottle and she finished it right up. Playroom was pretty quiet again. Eva again was chewing on her teething ring and just relaxing with us. We did some playing and she played with Kia for a little bit again. Kia ended up going back to her room - she was a little under the weather so she rested with her Mamma and Pappa there. We got nice visits from 2 of the Spanish families that originally started in the playroom with us. It is always so nice to see them. Such nice people!!!

Tomorrow morning is our court appointment. Sad that we are missing our morning visit but glad to get some official items that we need to get done, done.

Attached are pix of Pappa and Eva playing piano, Mamma and Eva, a couple from California that used CAH Angela and Bill w/their son, and the 2 Spanish families which their names are very hard to remember (except for Elizabeth which is the mom with dark hair and glasses) and Muriaha (sp??) her daughter and Lordes (the mom with the lighter hair with glasses) with her son Denyal (sp??).