I'm getting a bike!

I feel giddy like a little kid at Christmas getting a new toy.  A good friend of ours "knows a family who knows a guy" who can hook me up with a cheap, used mountain bike.  Thursday morning Erick and I are meeting them to jump on a chicken bus and go to some little nearby town to get it.  For those of you who haven't seen or read about them, the chicken buses are the main form of local transportation here.  They're brightly painted school buses that carry the Guatemalans, their chickens, I guess, and whatever else they need to transport.  I've been wanting to ride on one.  Anyway, it'll be so freeing to be able to zip up to the store to get milk or just zip across town! 

Last week Emily and I spent a day "behind the scenes" in Guatemala City with a team from Texas, Oklahoma, and California.  It was a group of people from different churches, all connected in some way to our friend, Melissa Scott, also an adopting mom here.  The purpose was to bring awareness to different areas of need in Guatemala, with the hope that people would return home and possibly connect with these needs in some way.  I just started to write about our experience, but decided to give you the link to Emily's blog :) She has some great statistics, pictures, and descriptions of our day.  Really, I'm not trying to get out of sharing the story, she just already has a good account of the trip! www.armstrongfamilyadventure.blogspot.com  Click on it! 

Erick is great.  He was obviously ready for his nighttime bottle the other night and brought me his can of formula.  Such a smart kid.  :)  He's getting more into playing with cars and trucks--getting down and crawling around on the floor with them.  He has a pretty good throwing arm, too...ugh, makes me selfishly fast-forward to sitting at 82,000 blistering hot summer baseball games.  Ha!  No offense, nephews.