Well we are sitting in Tampa International Airport waiting to catch our flight to Miami which we will then be off to Guatemala to visit our pumpkin again. We got a new medical which is on my computer at home, but she now weights 15 pounds and is 24.8 inches long. We have missed her SOOOOOO much and we are truely blessed that we can afford to visit, let alone visit twice. We have decided to go to Guatemala when Kirsten gets out of PGN and wait out the last few weeks down there with our little girl.

Now onto this plane we are about to board....AAAAHHHHHHH it's SOOO small!!!!!!!!!!! It sits 27 people TOTAL! Thats it....not my kind of plane. I freak out on a 757 let alone a plane the size of one my little brother played with as a kid! (ok not that small but close) Why'd I have to leave the vallum at home :-( j/k

Well we are waiting on getting into pgn and our agency said we should be in next week, so hopefully no kick-outs and we can leave in 6-8 weeks to go get our baby girl!!!!!!

-Diana

OK so it looks like I need to updated this :-) Sorry it has been a crazy couple of weeks! So we got out of Family Court on 2/6 and now we are waiting to get into PGN!!!!!

WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let us IN because we want OUT NOW!!!!!!! The average wait right now in PGN is 6-8 weeks either for a kick out (ppw error, we would have to fix and resubmit and wait another 6-8 weeks) or to get OUT aka the adoption would be finialized and we would travel within a few weeks to get our princess! We are hopefully in the home stretch :-)

We are hoping for the best and trying to prepare for the worst (actually we arn't even talking about the worst but it sounded good LOL)

My mom bought my baby shower invites today and they are TOO CUTE! As soon as they are done I will post one. I finished my baby registries too today... oh and I am SO in love with the new rainforest highchair, jumparoo, etc target has come out with how much cuter could they makes these things geeezzz LOL I thought it was a very neutral set so if we are blessed with a little boy *hint hint Mr. Stork!!! or great big money man in the sky (adoptions expensive!)* we could use the same set. Ok I'm done rambling for the night!

-Diana

We got PA!!!!!! WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never expected it on a Saturday and not for at least another week or 2! Yippeeee!!!! Now once we get out of FC we are onto PGN! and we are 1 step closer to our little princess coming home!

So we got back from our visit trip on Monday. It was fantastic. We had a few communication problems through the trip, but nothing to major. Kirsten was perfect!!!! Here's the run down of our trip.

Wednesday we got there and the fm (foster mom) never showed between 4:30-5pm with Kirsten. I called DeColores around 6:30 and let them know. They finally got ahold of the fm and they said she would be there within an hour to an hour and a half. I was CLIMBING THE WALLS!!!!! She finally showed up and spoke no english so the girl @ the front desk translated for us. Kirsten cried and cried when the foster mom gave her to us and she continued to cry till about 9:30 and FINALLY fell alseep. The first night she woke up every 3-4 hours and would only take half of her formula. But by the second full day she was with us she was sleeping through the night and taking 6oz every 3 hours (and we mean EVERY 3 hours on the dot!) She loved to laugh and giggle. She would laugh so loud if you did airplane with her. Her bright pink bouncer was her favorite and when she was cranky sometimes it was the only thing she would fall asleep in. She is the definition of Prissy! If she spit up while you were feeding her she would stop eating and cry until you wiped her face. She wanted her diaper changed the minute it was dirty and she is definatly going to be a daddys girl! Tommy ended up getting sick on Friday and I ended up sick on Sunday so it made it a little hard on each of us. Tommy's dad came with us and just thought the world of her. The San Carlos is very nice, the food was good, and the staff was fantastic! Monday we gave her back and the fm was fantastic. Kirsten cried when we gave her back which was the best feeling in the world (weird but true!) We asked her to call her Kirsten and she said no problem :-) She seemed very caring and loving towards Kirsten and we are so blessed that she is well taken care of. It was really hard to leave her and I held up pretty good until they went to walk out the door and then I starting crying :-( The trip was definatly priceless and irreplaceable, but also bittersweet in itself because it was so hard to leave her, but so nice to be going home.

We are planning to go back as soon as we get out of PGN and foster the last few weeks if DeColores will allow us. We are just counting our blessings and hoping that we will have PA next week/the week after and we will have a quick trip in pgn!

Here is a link to some of the pictures http://www.kirstendietzel.com/visit/

Diana

It's that time of the month...Medical update time :-) LOL
Here it is:

I saw Cristel Gutierrez 4 month old girl with normal physical exam, she has a nice social smile and say aju, aju, already, she follows everithing with his eyes, she start to roll over, 2nd dose dpt, polio, hep. B. H. influ type B.
Mynor Vivas MD.
W:13p., L:60cms (23.5 inches), HC:40cms (15.7 inches) from Cristel Gutierrez
Mynor Vivas MD.