Passport Services and Old Friends

This morning we woke up extra early as we were meeting with our Thai social worker, Nuanthip, to apply for Wi's passport.  Miss Oh's driver called the front desk to confirm that he would pick us up at 8:30am to get us across town in time for our meeting.  So after breakfast we got Wi cleaned up - quick tip for first time parents, while this may seem quite logical, sometimes in early mornings with not a whole lot of sleep it does not come to mind, dress the child in their nice clothes AFTER breakfast of yogurt and waffles with honey, just a tip - and down to the lobby we waited...and waited...and waited...finally gave up at 10 minutes before 9am and grabbed a cab ourselves.  The "meeting" itself was quite quick and painless, verified that we did have the paperwork that Nuanthip sent us and then we waited for her to work with a family from Sweden.  Once they were settled, we hopped into another cab and went to the other side of the city to the passport building.  Again, quick and painless, snapped a quick photo, took a few fingerprints of Wi and off to the waiting room we went.  While there though, and this is hands down the best part of the day, I looked over and recognized a little boy sitting with his new parents.  It was one of Wi's friends from the orphanage that lived in his building!  After pulling myself together (yes more tears of joy) we went over and intorduced ourselves.  The family is from the Netherlands and once the two little boys saw each other, they started talking and laughing with each other.  Even John and the other parents were choked up watching this.  Their process is vastly different from ours and they are staying with someone provided by their agency as a tour guide\social worker\interpreter, so he came over and helped us with a few things that Wi has been saying over and over again, getting more frustrated by the day that we have no idea what he is saying.  Once all of that became crystal clear and Wi was a bit more relaxed that his non-Thai parents can respond properly to a little more and he saw his friend again, everyone relaxed considerably.  We hung around with the other families for a bit, received our receipt and back to the hotel we went.  Unfortunately, we will not be receiving his passport until the board meeting on Wednesday so we are unable to get his medical check up done tomorrow as we had hoped. 
Wi's cold is back in full force and now John is starting to feel a bit more uncomfortable himself, so we let Wi sleep a bit longer than usual for his nap...actually he had no desire to wake up at all, so we bundled everyone in comfy clothes and just hung out together again, watching Disney movies and counting to 3 with everything that we could find.  All in all a good day, here is hoping that some good rest, extra vitamins and full belly's will help everyone feel better in the morning.  One quick ridiculously cute thing...so after Wi gets a shower we wrap him up in towel and bring him out to the bed to dry off, put lotion on him (the poor kid has the dryest skin) and get him dressed for bed.  Well, our hotel has bath sheets and he is so tiny that the towel wraps around him about four times.  The first night we did this, he thought it was hysterical and I laughingly said he looked like a little Thai buritto, tucked the bottom of the towel into iteself and carried him out of the bathroom.  Now every night, he runs out of the shower and holds his arms straight down at his sides waiting to be wrapped up, giggling uncontrollably - here are photos to show you what I mean...the child is such a ham for the camera!  Talk to you tomorrow!
Love,
Nancy, John and Wi