Merry Christmas

We're writing this from Cleveland, Ohio - at Matt's sister's house. We had a fabulous celebration of the birth of our Savior. We had lots of family, some good food, and the making of many wonderful memories.

Presents? Isaac made out like a bandit. And his parents didn't do too badly, either. It's nice to be in the land of plenty, but a little weird, knowing that so many of our patients and friends have nothing.

Tomorrow morning, we meet Heidi's brother and sister-in-law here in Cleveland (where Erin's family is, too) and caravan to Salisbury, North Carolina for a week with her family there.

Isaac has grown like crazy since we got to the US. Since we came here three weeks ago, he has started to sit up by himself, he can now roll over, has started eating rice cereal, and has grown his little Buddha belly by at least 50%!

His temperament is still day-to-day, though. Today was not his best. He was basically a fuss-butt all day and it only took us about 2-3 hours to get him to go to sleep. Arrrggghhh!!! When we get back home to Guatemala, we'll need to start him on a little schedule - at least for bedtime.

Anyway, here are a couple pics from the week. The first is our new truck we're so excited about. The next few are of Isaac, and the last one is of the Bell family on Christmas day.

Well, gotta run. More later.