Day 2: Pre Encuentro Visit

Today we  (Mark and I) woke up at 8:00 and Alejandra slept in until 10:00!  She was SO exhausted from the flight yesterday and she needed to catch up on her beauty sleep.  We met our housekeeper Milena today and she is so sweet. She made us breakfast and then we all headed over to the small grocery store across the street to buy food for lunch.  We then went to a fruit market and stocked up on a lot of the wonderful fruit they have in Colombia.  We ate the most delicious little banana, it was super sweet.  We've missed all the food here so much!

We got back to our apartment at 1:30 and quickly got ready to head over to ICBF Cundinamarca office.  We met up with Lucia in the taxi and saw our attorney Oscar there.  It was a beautiful, very modern office building.  We were greeted by the psychologist and 2 social workers.  One of the social workers has known Amaya Fernanda since she was a newborn so she had a lot to share with us.  We know she is meeting all of her developmental milestones and that she has been very well taken care of by her foster family.  She has a healthy attachment with her foster family and for that we are SO excited!  The ladies wanted to know what we had in mind for the encuentro and we told them we were going to let Amaya Fernanda take the lead and we would go along with what she wanted.  They wanted us to treat the day like a celebration so they recommended that we arrive 30 minutes early on Thursday and decorate the room with balloons and decorations.  They also wanted us to bring cake to celebrate.  The feeling of this office was SO different then the other regional office we went to with Alejandra.  We were asked to keep the encuentro very low key when we went there.  We are excited for this little party we're throwing for our sweet little girl.....it so closely matches what we feel in our hearts!  We also received 2 updated pictures of Amaya Fernanda and two sheets of pink construction paper she had  colored for us.  It was SO sweet.

We then came home and were welcomed with arroz con pollo and fresh mango juice!  We watched Tangled here at home and then headed off to the park and a little exploration walk.  Tomorrow we are going to notarize a couple of legal documents and spend some time in Unicentro.  We need to order a cake and get some party supplies as well!