Tuesday and no new news

Hi faithful readers,
I'm sorry I didn't post yesterday but I couldn't make the keyboard type the @ sign so I couldn't sign in. Actually we've been having lots of problems with the comunity computer havin kernal panicks and shutting down here at the residencia, and internet connection is a bit spotty during the business day. The person who usually kept it at least running left for home a few days ago. I've been trying but all the screens are in spanish and it's a pc not a Mac so I often just guess. So far it's worked.
Yesterday was a trying day with Jonathan Felipe. I think the honeymoon is starting to wear off and he is testing to see where the limits are. He has found out that he can't grab other childrens stuff, kick when he is angry, grab food off from other people plates and poke people with a fork. Time outs are loud affairs but we have so far agreed that he will be good and that we still love each other. I can say that in spanish but I can't spell it because my spanish is phonetic and I can't even spell in english. Today Jon F. was very well behaved, at least so far. I hope that yesterdays unpleasentness as payed off. We walked to the big park and he spent a long time playing in the sandbox and on the jungle gym. If you are wondering what it's like to adopt, one thing you do is spend a lot of time waiting for other people to do thing like make rulings and sign papers. The adoptions workers try to keep you as informed as they can but they don't have crystal balls either. Isabele our worker is a a conference this week so I probably won't know any thing new until Monday which is discouraging, but I am not the only one in this boat so at least I have someone to comiserate with. Two families left today for home, one to Arizona and one to Paris, another is leaving tomorrow morning and others are making thier final preparations. So I will be saying good by to people whos have become friends and probably welcoming some new into this community. One thing that is great is to see the joy that new parents get interacting with thier new children. The majority of couples here are adopting because of infertility [and they are not afraid to share their stories ] and most are younger than I. In fact i'm the only one here with a child old enough to be in college by a long shot probably a good 16 or 17 years. It reminds me of a day 19 years ago when we brought Colin home from the hospital. Of course I don't miss diapers and spitup getting up with a crying baby in the night. I'll gladly leave that to younger folks. Tomorrow I will post more pictures of something. I haven't done anything new since Saturday.
Love Dwight and the Boys from Colombia