You know how I’ve mentioned that communication hasn’t been an issue? Well, we had our first major problem: slug bugs. VW Beetles. PunchBuggies. A favorite game from my childhood.
Lily loves to play slug bugs. The car game that involves yelling SLUG BUG ________!! and filling in [...]
Archive for June, 2006
A breakdown in communication
Posted in Adoption on June 30, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Four month update
Posted in Adoption on June 26, 2006 | 3 Comments »
The three-year-old stuff he does:
climb EVERYTHING
talk non-stop
tell silly, silly jokes (Mommy’s a lemon!)
refuse all food other than bananas and Healthy Choice chix & rice soup
keep score: everything from kisses to shoes. Has to do/have more than Lil.
Amazing adjustment:
had an alone playdate at a friend’s house
speaks only in understandable English
tells details of his life in Ethiopia [...]
The Underground Children of Addis Ababa
Posted in Adoption on June 12, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Photos of the children who live underground in Ethiopia's capital.
There are about 5 million true orphans in Ethiopia, and up to 150,000 kids living on the streets. We saw many shelters like the ones in the photos during our travels in Addis.
Camp
Posted in Adoption on June 12, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Dawit and Lily are at preschool camp today. I have 4 hours alone, and of course I find myself in front of the computer instead of crossing things off the list.
When we told Dawit last night that he'd be going to school, he started yelling "lunchbox! lunchbox!" Of course he was right, he didn't have [...]
Zinger
Posted in Adoption on June 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Some of John's family came to meet Dawit for the first time today. Among them was a 94-year old great-granny, whom I adore. She is, as you can imagine, set in her ways. She had many questions about Dawit, and she slipped this one in:
Tell me, did you know he was black before you adopted [...]
Big Changes
Posted in Adoption on June 1, 2006 | 2 Comments »
The kidlets at the impressive Preschool Games. There was an egg race, sack race, hat race, tug-o-war) Lily won a gold medal. (do I have to mention that all the kids got gold medals?) She will be starting kindergarten, so she takes every opportunity to inform Dawit of what life is like at her school [...]
