We checked Lilia into the hospital yesterday and discovered that she has a urinary tract infection. She woke up yesterday morning with a “light” fever and stomach pains and we took to her 2 month checkup around noon. By then her temperature had risen to 102, she had diarrhea several times while the doctor attempted to obtain a urine sample from her, and then she vomited 3 or 4 times in a row onto. She has since been on an antibiotic drip and we can hopefully take her home tomorrow. We have never had a more heartbreaking moment than when trying to calm Lilia as she screamed at the top of her tiny little lungs while three nurses tried to find a vein to put her IV into. After finally getting her calmed back down and fed Elise discovered a little wet spot on her clothes where Lilia’s foot had been. The needle had moved enough to be spilling out and we had to go through the whole painful process again. 
Since Lilia was born here in Peru, she was first a Peruvian citizen before anything. The hospital where she was born is two blocks from the embassy, so we could say that she was relatively close to American soil.
In the last two months we have had the joy of trying to complete all the necessary documents to insure her Peruvian and American citizenship. I must admit that we felt like Dorothy and the Tin Man on our way Oz as we went to the Embassy. It is a large, forboding building with quite the rigmarole to enter. As we walked up the lawn to the huge building, it seemed like it would be abuzz as soon as we got in. We walked in the doors, and it was eerily desolate. After several trips to the embassy, a flurry of paperwork, proof of parent’s citizenship and an interview, Lilia is officially American and has a passport. Yay!
On Friday we go to Peruvian offices to get her Peruvian passport, identification card and also our visas. Fun stuff.
Welcome To Our Warehouse!
In an effort to cut down on grocery costs and reduce cart size on daily grocery store runs I decided to stock up on some of the supplies for work teams. Leo (our work team driver) and I drove to a part of town where things can be purchased in bulk for a lower price.