Granny, Auntie Heidi and friends made this banner. Lily also painted a picture for Dawit’s room.
Lily and Dawit spent a good amount of time building today. In many ways, it feels like he’s always been here.
I have a couple of hundred photos to sort through, but they are stuck on my iPod now. Can’t find the darn [...]
Archive for February, 2006
Settling in
Posted in Adoption on February 28, 2006 | 5 Comments »
The giggling begins
Posted in Adoption on February 28, 2006 | 4 Comments »
If only you all could hear the squealing giggles from downstairs!
We are home after 5 hours in the Addis airport, 20 hours on the same plane, then 7.5 hour drive home from D.C. yesterday. Dawit doesn’t seem jet-lagged at all, but us adults are delirious.
Lily is proud to be the boss of Dawit, and it [...]
Leaving today….
Posted in Adoption on February 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »
the next post will be from my computer! Many more thoughts and photos from our trip, I’ll put them all here.
See you soon!!
dawn, john and dawit
One more day in Ethiopia
Posted in Adoption on February 25, 2006 | 1 Comment »
We’re having a relaxing day, lunch at the Hilton—American food! I’m not feeling great. Not much sleep and I have the typical traveler’s curse.
Dawit has had several 3-year old temper tantrums today. Even in Ethiopia, he knows the limp-body-fall-on-the-floor trick when he doesn’t want to be moved.
He also is a comedian. He has emerged from [...]
Iced Tea Withdrawal
Posted in Adoption on February 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I would do almost anything for a big iced tea right now. Haven’t even had a drink with ice in a week.
We’re having a great morning. Plan on doing some shopping today.
Mom, please try and call us today between 12 and 2 this afternoon. (your time) We are in room 104R. (Having trouble getting the basics [...]
A long day
Posted in Adoption on February 24, 2006 | 5 Comments »
We started out today to Beta Seida, the orphanage where Dawit lived for 6 months before we signed the paperwork. In January, he moved to Horizon House. We hired a taxi through our agency to take us the 20 minute drive through town. The poverty is difficult to see.
As soon as we arrived at the [...]
It’s Official!
Posted in Adoption on February 23, 2006 | 15 Comments »
Today we had our final interview at the Amercian Embassy, and Dawit is officially part of our faimily. It was a hot and crowded room, filled with families adopting. We had a five minute interview with an official at a window with glass between us, John had to raise his right hand and swear that [...]
More surprises
Posted in Adoption on February 22, 2006 | 6 Comments »
All the good kind, fortunately.
We went to the orphanage yesterday to visit Dawit, and played with the kids for about an hour. There are some real characters there, it’s hard to only bring one home. We decided to ask Dawit if he’d like to come to the hotel to play. On a whim, I asked [...]
What a day
Posted in Adoption on February 20, 2006 | 6 Comments »
We went to Horizon House this morning to meet Dawit for the first time. He was in a classroom with 16 other children, all of them coloring quietly at their desks. He was coloring a picture of hockey player. (of course, no one here knows much about hockey or that John plays)
He was shy, but [...]
We made it!
Posted in Adoption on February 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Our intitial flight out of Bradley was cancelled, we couldn’t get another, so we rented a car and drove very fast to Dulles in D.C. to catch our flight to Ethiopia. We spent 17 hours on the plane, and got in last night.
We had an amazing Ethiopian meal at the hotel where we are staying, [...]
