Not too much has been happening in the past couple of days since some of the bus and taxi drivers are on strike. We have been confined to the hotel and have not been allowed to visit certain places due to the protesters in the south part of Bogota. So we thought that we would take a moment to update all of you readers on the changes that have taken place within the Houseman family. Some of you know a few of the details and others do not.
When we arrived in Bogota Jacob's left central incisor was slightly loose. He had many people offer to pull his tooth out but he declined them all. This is what Jacob looked like the week before we travelled to Colombia. A perfect little smile with a small gap between his central incisors.
By thrusting his tongue forward he caused his left tooth to drift toward his right tooth creating a gap to the left. It remained this way for 20 days!
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On February 26, 2010 we were gently eased out of our slumber by a sweet little girl thumping in her crib at 6 am. Before I was fully conscious there was a tap on my shoulder and Jacob had his tooth in his hand.
There was a competition between Jacob and Camila, whose tooth would fall out first. Jacob emerged the victor. (Camila's left lateral incisor is loose.)
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Jacob's right central incisor was loose but we thought that it had a few weeks before it would join it's comrade in the zip lock bag. We were wrong. February 28, Jacob, Carlos, and Camila were running around after dinner when Jacob's teeth bumped into Camila's head making it dangle by one maybe two threads. The tooth finally gave up it's fight the next day.
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I foresee braces in Jacob's near future.
Some people have asked if the tooth fairy visited or will visit Jacob in Colombia. The answer is no. The tooth fairy has been unable to fly from Michigan to Bogota due to the thick smog and pollution. I believe that there will be no pesos under his pillow in Michigan, only U.S. dollars.
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and the next day her scalp met a one blade. I still have a hard time talking about that so we will move on.
The next change that she endured was more traumatic for her than loosing her hair. There is another tradition in Colombia. How many can guess it before reading on? The tradition is getting the baby's ears pierced. I was indifferent to it but Dave thought that she would look cute. Jacob first said, "Why do we have to do what they do?" Good point. We don't but we did. Anyway, the hotel staff and owner have asked us several times when we were going to get her ears pierced. My comment was "No se" until today. Seeing how we haven't really left the hotel for a few days Dave was eager for an excuse to get out. Katya the owner offered to take us to Unicentro Mall where Gabriela Thompson got her ears pierced.
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I foresee braces in Jacob's near future.
Some people have asked if the tooth fairy visited or will visit Jacob in Colombia. The answer is no. The tooth fairy has been unable to fly from Michigan to Bogota due to the thick smog and pollution. I believe that there will be no pesos under his pillow in Michigan, only U.S. dollars.
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The second person that has undergone changes in the Houseman family is Luciana. The most obvious change is one day she had gorgeous hair...
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and the next day her scalp met a one blade. I still have a hard time talking about that so we will move on.
The next change that she endured was more traumatic for her than loosing her hair. There is another tradition in Colombia. How many can guess it before reading on? The tradition is getting the baby's ears pierced. I was indifferent to it but Dave thought that she would look cute. Jacob first said, "Why do we have to do what they do?" Good point. We don't but we did. Anyway, the hotel staff and owner have asked us several times when we were going to get her ears pierced. My comment was "No se" until today. Seeing how we haven't really left the hotel for a few days Dave was eager for an excuse to get out. Katya the owner offered to take us to Unicentro Mall where Gabriela Thompson got her ears pierced.
This cute little girl once again had no idea of what was to come.
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I told Dave that if Luciana was going to get her ears pierced I was NOT going to hold her. She was cooperative with getting her ears marked.
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Luciana's right ear was pierced first and it was all downhill from there. We were told that the baby's ears would be numbed and she wouldn't be in much pain.....well that was not the case. She cried and cried and cried and was showing us just how angry she was with what had just taken place. This did not make the left ear any easier, in fact it was brutal. But one ear was finished and we now had to finish the torture (I mean beautification).
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As soon as she was back in our arms and we were walking out of the mall she returned to her smiley happy little self. We needed a profile picture so you could see her little earrings.
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I told Dave that if Luciana was going to get her ears pierced I was NOT going to hold her. She was cooperative with getting her ears marked.
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Luciana's right ear was pierced first and it was all downhill from there. We were told that the baby's ears would be numbed and she wouldn't be in much pain.....well that was not the case. She cried and cried and cried and was showing us just how angry she was with what had just taken place. This did not make the left ear any easier, in fact it was brutal. But one ear was finished and we now had to finish the torture (I mean beautification).
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As soon as she was back in our arms and we were walking out of the mall she returned to her smiley happy little self. We needed a profile picture so you could see her little earrings.
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We did not post any pictures of Dave or myself but I will note a few changes that I have observed in Dave. Some physical and others not. The first is that he is a little browner. Secondly, he is a little lighter. Finally, I think that he has softened to the Colombian way.
As for me, I don't believe that I have changed....I am who I am.
And that is the way I (Dave) love her!
