Rosie sees her first commercial!

Rosie saw her first commercial, well the first one that she has understood. It was for some girlie toy, not sure which one, but there were little girls playing with girlie things. Rosie was so excited she got right up to the t.v. and started flapping her arms around and pointing at the t.v. and making her little monkey noises. It was so cute.

She also saw her first black people last night; the first ones I've noticed her noticing anyway. We were eating dinner but she was turned around in her high chair just staring at a black family a few tables away. It was kind of embarrasing, but I don't think they noticed. Brother, you just don't consider all the things she has never been exposed to.

We got our first full night of sleep last night and boy do we all feel much better. Also, we spent most of yesterday at the urgent care center and were all prescribed antibiotics, so I'm sure that is helping too. We have basically been in quarantine here in our dumpy little hotel room for the last 4 days; pretty unbearable for the boys - even if they don't feel so great. Anyway, we are thrilled to be on the road to recovery.

We have some wonderful news from our friends whom I've been posting about. I mentioned earlier that they decided to take a leap of faith and go home with their potentially seriously ill baby. Well, they got to LAX and got the miraculous news that she is not Hep C positive as had been marked in her medical records. We are so, so happy for them; it is another confirmation of Heavenly Father's love and grace and we are so grateful to have been a small part of their trial and subsequent miracle.

A bit of good news for us too; we were expecting a snafu with the paperwork this morning, but Robert was able to reach one of the ladies at work in Frankfurt and she went to great lengths to fax us the stuff we needed and we were able to turn in all our paperwork to the German Consulate this morning. What a relief. So far, so good. They say that it usually takes 5 days to process the visas but they noted that our travel date is on Saturday and said they would do their best to have it done by then. Oh, I do really hope so, I so much want to get home. We are praying that this part of the process goes smoothly.