Playing Catch-up

Sorry it has been a few days.  I have not been feeling well, but nothing serious.  At first I was worried I had Josie-disease, but I don't think so.  Just fighting a bug off.  So I'll catch everyone up.

Court Update
Here's the word on the strike: they are on strike, but will remain working.  Well that's a strange concept.  I wonder if it would work if I tried it.  I'm on strike, but will continue to provide the same services?  Sounds intriguing.

Given this outcome, our lawyer presented our case on Tuesday.  We should know which court we are assigned to today through a lottery.  This is important since some of the family courts are very pro adoption and moving things along, other are not as expeditious.  We hit the jackpot with Lucy's court and had a wonderful judge.  When we had our Sentencia meeting, we were ordered to bring a cake and beverage to have a party.  It was incredible...  now prayers for Josie's assignment.

A Day We Would Like to Forget
Monday piled up like a car wreck of family insanity.  We were so happy to put the kids down for the end of the day, is that bad?

• My morning started with aforementioned illness.  
• Then Josie locking herself inside the bedroom, a door with no key and no open windows.  After about 20 minutes Elvia, our housekeeper, successfully popped the door open using a credit card.  
• TMI ALERT:  Lucy had an accident and somehow got poop on the floor of the bathroom, this is still a mystery to us.  Then, Josie stepped in it in her footie pjs and ran all over the apartment.  Thankfully we have laminate floor, but still.  
• Josie was acting out a lot with her hitting (of me) and I decided to begin to take a zero tolerance approach to it.  The result was a 1-hour screaming, hitting, crying meltdown that we got to enjoy through our lunch.  Nothing improves a day like appearing to abuse your child in public.  

Our Days in Pictures

Since I'm covering a lot of ground in this update, I'll jump right to the pictures!

We woke up to preparations for the Sunday market inside of La Fontana.  Although less impressive overall than I remember, there is now a bouncy house.  

We still headed up to Usaquen to visit the Sunday market and take advantage of Ciclovia.  This was the first stall that welcomed you to the market.  The fruit is spectacular, but we are pretty conservative on what fruit we'll eat, but boy I want to eat it all!

This is a less congested street in this area.

Not sure what was going on here, but these were on display as we walked up to the market.  There was also music blasting.  Any ideas?

This gentleman was sitting in the square watching the pidgeons.  He just struck me as incredibly Colombian.

We ate our lunch at Bistronomy in Usaquen, a German restaurant by a famous pair of brothers/restauranteurs.  I had the Hungarian Goulash, almost as good as Grandma's!

The fine young men were watching the kids in the bouncy house and got a kick out of Lucy.  They liked trying to figure out if Lucy had a pet - I think the confusion was rooted in her answer of, "I have a Bing"

This was the view from our lunch yesterday at TGI Friday's.   Outside you see two things that tell you you're not in Roseville.  The Horse carts are apparently being eliminated by the end of the month, so I wanted to grab a picture.  You can also see the security tower in the parking lot of the mall.  Please pass the nachos!