Four Weeks

I wanted to post briefly before we left for our trip to Barranquilla tomorrow.

It's been four weeks since we arrived here, and time has certainly flown by. This last week in particular went by really really fast. We had a very quiet thursday, and spent some time with our friends at Hotel Paris on Friday. I had the chance to go out for dinner with one of my best friends from medical school on Friday night (Miguel Diago) and his wife. It was a strange night to go out in Bogota because it was "dry" night secondary to the congressional elections today. The city was therefore kinda empty and subdued. Nonetheless we had a great time talking about everything under the sun and laughing very very hard, just like we used to when we were medical students. Thank you Migue and Carmen for a wonderful evening.

My cousin Sergio and his wife invited all of us for an asado (bbq) on saturday. They live in La Calera and the view from their house was just amazing. We had great food and Santi had a good time with cousins Sofia and Juliana.

Congressional elections were held today in Colombia. Because of this my parents and I decided to stay in and not venture out for anything other than voting. I am still registered to vote here so I went ahead and voted by Unicentro. I had a 45 minute wait in line before I entered the polling place which was huge with 185 voting stations. For those of you curious about whom I voted for, I will divulge that I voted for the green party candidates for both Senate and Congress.

Our kids are doing great. Sebastian is really thriving every single day: he is sitting without support with more and more stability, he is rolling some, is more social, smiles a lot and is eating real well. I started to introduce some baby food and plain vegetable soup and he loves both. He continues to sleep well through the night, goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:00 pm and wakes up at 6:00 am. I give him a bottle at 10:00 pm or so for which he barely wakes up.

He is just such a sweet little baby..... and he loves his brother, laughs very hard whenever Santi talks to him.

Santi is doing better in terms of meltdowns and acting out. The last week was good and he has "grown" a bit with more mature behavior, almost like catching himself before he is about to do something "bad". I am very proud of him.

On thing I've discovered about Santi during this trip is that he loves to dress up. This week he had a whole thing about dressing up as a waiter

as a naval officer with Abuelito's old navy hat

and as God knows what in here......

He told me he wants to dress up as a whale for Halloween this year. I have my work cut out with that costume.......(suggestions are welcome)

I'll have no internet access during my trip. I will return to Bogota on the 23rd of Mach and update again then.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself~ Ralph Waldo Emerson