The pictures I promised

Edited to add: Why oh why can I not get this to format correctly? I hates you Blogger, you booger!

Ahren is getting so big. He is very large for a Guatemalan child. In fact, he is just plain large for his age no matter what. I think he weighs only a couple of pounds less than Levi, who is 4 years old. He's not fat, just solid. His hands are huge!

PBJ has a ton of hair. Very thick but fine. Soft and shiny. She has her crazy hair moments too!

We had a crib at the hotel, but as you can see, Ahren didn't exactly fit safely in it. We had him sleep in bed between us (think of sleeping with a 30 pound squid that wriggled all night)

The night we got PBJ she was a screaming mess. It wasn't us necessarily she was having trouble with. The FM said she had been crying for an hour before they came. She was sick with a cold, teething, it was her bedtime, and she was dressed in so many clothes she was burning up (onsie, velour shirt, flannel lined overalls and a denim jacket). Here is a picture of the baby they handed us, and then a picture of what she looked like by the next morning. Not once while we had her did she scream like this again. Oh, she cried now and then, like a normal baby, but not this terrible screaming.

I had always wondered why Ahren's foster mother had never cut his hair. I mean, the poor kid was sporting a giant fuzzy fro! So I asked her. She said she was afraid I would not like it. So I asked her if she minded if I got his hair cut and she thought that would be wonderful. Katie and I took him to the place in the mall and he got to sit in a little car while they cut his hair. I only got him a trim, not a buzz. They love his curls and I just couldn't cut them off. So here are the before and after pix. We are definitly going to have to keep his hair short when he is older!