Mariana!

Here she is!! What a cutie huh?

Swirling, swirling, my head is swirling. I'm so excited I could burst. I'm actually having trouble even formulating sentences. My mind is racing through thoughts. -Holy crap, still so much to do. What do I do if she won't eat/sleep? We have to update our health insurance. Did i ever update our life insurance? I wonder how warm/cold it is in Bogota this time of year. How do I change a diaper? etc. To quote my Aunt Anna and Jane "she looks so precious hon". I don't think we could have been given a more beautiful little girl. I find myself wondering about the birth parents. We did get some information about them. It must be incredibly hard for them right now. We'll do our best to take care of this little girl when they could not. I hope we don't mess it up. deep breath... breathe... one thing at a time...

Hopefully we can leave in about 3 weeks. We have some paperwork to do and then we have to book flights, hotel etc. We might try to sublet our apt for the 4-6 weeks that we need to be in Colombia. Any takers? We also need to get our travel visas. I hope that all of this will occupy my brain enough that I can not freak out about the task that lay before me. Not only Fatherhood but adoptive Fatherhood and all the challenges that lay there. It's ben a long time coming and it's finally here. Whoa.