This is our reflection in the brook after a successful find of the A Forest By Any Name series.
We spent the day letterboxing. We had some great finds! Letterboxing is a quiet hobby–print clues from an intriguing online description and set out to find a box planted by another letterboxer. The boxes [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Letterboxing
Posted in Family Life on September 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Homework
Posted in Dawitish on September 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am lucky to volunteer a lot this year at the kids’ school. I’m in Dawit’s art class every week, and for the past two weeks they have focused on Piet Mondrian, enforcing the concepts of horizontal/vertical, and the primary colors.
This evening we were working on his Word Book. He has to think of several [...]
Thanks, Granny!
Posted in Family Life on September 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We loved everything! We are going to make this a whole week of celebrating. We still have a family party, and cupcakes at kindergarten.
Here is a photo from last year’s party. He’s grown so much!
Bowling party!
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Dawit is employing the “lean technique” to guide his ball.
We had a great party–filled with stuff little kids like: bowling (duck pin with bumpers), arcade games, pizza, ice cream cake, and presents. It was a great group of kids, too:
At this moment, Lily and Dawit are setting up an elephant tent in her room to [...]
Happy New Year
Posted in Ethiopia, Family Life on September 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ethiopia celebrates the new millennium with festivities in the capital city Addis Ababa.
Tickets for a concert featuring US hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas cost $170, two months’ salary for an average Ethiopian.
Full BBC article here.
Ethiopia 2000 with details of many celebrations.
Photos of the celebration in Ethiopia.
We went to our local Ethiopian/Eritrean [...]
5 More Days
Posted in Family Life on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One thing leads to another…
Posted in Family Life on September 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So, someone in our neighborhood wanted to get rid of their backyard playscape. It was free, and John spent a couple of hours disassembling it and bringing it home Friday night. He sketched out a design to combine it with the playhouse he built a couple of years ago, and got up early [...]
Finally…the Anti-Racist Parent meme
Posted in Adoption, Race on September 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was tagged by Erin for the Anti-Racist parent meme. Here goes:
1. I am:
Irish, German, Austrian
2. My kid(s) are:
Lily- Irish, German, Austrian, Scottish
Dawit-Ethiopian
3. I first started thinking more about race, culture and identity when:
I’m unsure of my age, but I was just tall enough to be rummaging through the “junk drawer” in [...]
Kindergarten
Posted in Family Life on September 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Dawit is at his first full day of school. Snack and lunch, even. The school is a magnet elementary school, focusing on a “classical” education. The arts, language, and manners are encouraged. Each day they start by greeting their teacher with a handshake and making eye contact. Looks like he’s got it down already. Look [...]
First Day!
Posted in Family Life on September 4, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We left the big first grader at school this morning:
But Kindergarten meets only for one hour the first day, so it will be a long couple of hours until school starts for Dawit:
