Its a boy

Well, Jessica wants to name him John Daniel. I was expecting a girl so I told her I wanted to pray about it tonight and I would decide in the morning. He weighs 3050 grams (sounds humongous), when I figure out what that means, I will let you know J. Jessica’s Labor was very short and she said it was the easiest one so far. She is doing well, everyone at the clinic said that she could not be doing better. The baby is strong and in good health although very purple J. I took our camera to the clinic but I forgot about it until I got back home with the children so you all are going to have to wait until later for some pictures (sorry), besides they are always a little strange looking at first. Jessica is at the hospital with Natalia (an English speaking woman who has been helping us). I am at the house with the children now. Oh yeah, he was born about 12:05 on February 14^th.

I have our phone hooked up to the local phone line (until we get another phone, we can only use either the internet phone or the local phone line) in case Jessica calls from the hospital. They said that she will probably be able to come home tomorrow afternoon.

It really is funny to me how people interact with you when you don’t speak their language. When we were at the clinic, I went into the bathroom of Jessica’s room and tried to turn on the light. There were 2 identically shaped buttons next to each other and I (in the dark) pressed the one closest to the door and nothing happened so I pressed the other one and this alarm started to sound. So I tried to tell the doctor what I had done (it was a simple mistake) so she proceeded to take me around to all 3 of the nurse call buttons in the room and explain to me (in a kind way) that “this button is a light switch and that button is an alarm for the nurse, see the little picture of a nurse on the button” all of this in Spanish of course. I perhaps before I might have been offended because she was in a way insulting my intelligence however at the same time how intelligent could I be for moving my family to a country without speaking the languageJ. Anyways, I was not offended, in fact I really didn’t think anything of it at the time I listened and tried to understand what she was saying. It wasn’t until I was thinking about it later that I laughed to myself because it was such a simple thing. This is a very humbling experience and I am enjoying that part if things. The Lord has certainly prepared a path for us here in many ways that we can see much less the things we cannot see, but this experience of having to deal with life from a position of almost total ignorance should, I pray, teach us something and humble us because we are, in reality, far more ignorant than even this language issue helps me to realize. I pray that the Lord continue to shape me and my family into mature Christians and of course according to His will.

I am tired; it is 2:42 in the morning here now.

Dane