A few things have happened in the last few weeks which are worth noting on the blog, but have not morphed into entries due to time, travels or just plain thoughtlessness on the part of the blogger. 

First was the receipt of Carson’s passport while I was out hauling concrete blocks around Guatemala. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything about the paperwork involved with doing anything official for Carson (OK, I went and looked – summer 2007 was the last paperwork entry, so I guess I shouldn’t complain too much!), but back in mid-February we went and applied for passports for both the boys and it brought the situation to light again. Nolan needed a birth certificate, and his passport arrived in the mail in just over a week. For Carson’s application we had to send his Oregon birth certificate, his Guatemalan passport and his Yamhill County adoption decree. It took a month for anything to come in the mail and then it was a letter requesting his Certificate of Citizenship (which BTW was generated from the visa in his Guatemalan passport, was a requirement before the birth certificate or the adoption decree could be generated and was issued by the Federal government to start with, so you would think they would have access to a database somewhere that would more reliable than a piece of paper. These are the same people that told us our fingerprints would expire every 12 months…. But I digress.) So after nervously parting with basically every official document we possess, his passport finally arrived in the mail! We hear (time will tell if it’s true) that as long as we keep a current passport for him he shouldn’t have to produce all those documents each time he has to prove citizenship in the future. Very cool.

Second, the weather has been fabulous the last few days, sparking mommy's need to create daisy chain necklaces for Carson and show him how to put food coloring in water to make daffodils turn colors - and generating weird looks from Daddy who apparently never did either.

Happy Spring!