To our surprise we received a video from our agency today from their trip in the beginning of October. There is about a 30 second clip of Kirsten (Cristel Sofia by birthname). In the video they have the wrong sign with a different baby's name, but they figured that out after a few seconds.

The whole clip tommy took from the video is about 4 megs so it may take a second to load.

Here's the link
http://dietzel.com/kirsten.html

Now if only we would hear on DNA and FC I would be estatic!

-Diana

Found this very interesting and sad. It was posted on the adoption form I visit.

(taken from the World Fact Book, the World Bank, and US Dept of State):

Out of 100 children born in Guatemala:

1 will be adopted by a US family
5 will not make it to their 5th birthday
16 will be born with low birth weight
22 will never see the inside of a school
28 will never learn how to read and write
54 will grow up in extreme poverty and malnourishment
74 will never make it to the 7th grade
84 will need to travel over an hour to reach a health care facility.

We got a new picture! Yippee!!!!!!! She is 1 month 3 weeks in this picture :-) We just love her to pieces!

Woo Hoo! We got an updated medical report for Kirsten (I'm not sure when it was done but it was probably in the last week or so) She is now 9lbs 8 oz, 21 inches long and her head is 14 inches round. Someone likes to eat ;-) 3 pounds since birth and she is almost 2 months old! Glad to see she is gaining weight and growing! Below is the report from the doctor:

I saw Cristel Sofia Gutierrez (Kirsten's birthname) with a normal physical exam. She follows everything around her with the eyes, she says aju, aju, and has a nice social smile. W:9p 8oz., L:54cms., HC:37cms.,
Mynor Vivas MD.

I think we have another smarty pants in the family (Nisey you better watch out LOL j/k)

Well that just made my weekend! They sent pictures but they didn't work so hopefully over the weekend or monday we will get the pictures :-)

Well I got word from our agency that our dossier went to Guatemala either yesterday or the day before :-) So thats good news! It will take probably about a week between mailing time and actual translation before it is actually translated and we can be submitted for DNA and family court. If dna, family court and preapproval from the us embassey all take there average amount of time (considering we have no hold ups) then we should be able to visit in January and hopefully we will be in PGN around that time if not right after!!!! Our agency doesn't allow you to visit without DNA being done, and I don't want to wait to book flights/hotel because we may not get one then so I think we will just book everything with the ability to cancel and get refunded.