Coming Home Slideshow

We have family friends who are photographers. Well, Frank is the photographer and Peggy, his wife, generally makes us look good. Peggy and Frank were at our wedding, they came to the hospital and took the first photos of Moo, they took toddler photos of Doodle and Moo, they take our family photos, etc. So it was only natural to have Frank come to the airport when we came home with the Newbie. We wanted someone to capture the moment of our girls meeting each other for the first time without us worrying about missing the moment or being self conscious. We took some posed shots, but most were in a photo-journalistic style, which is a part of Frank's background. Peggy put some of those photos to music for us. Go ahead and take a look. Seeing us become a family at last makes me tear up. It starts with our girls waiting and waiting.......

ETA: I removed the slideshow since everything got a bit wonky. Here's a link to it. It works better than putting it directly into the blog.

She's Mobile

The Newbie started crawling on August 31st, but things have been busy here. I'll post more later, but this is a short video of her in action.

Happy New Year! Melkam Addis Amet!

Friday, September 11th was the Ethiopian New Year, but we celebrated today (Sunday). I made Alicha Sega Wot (mild beef stew), Misir Wot (yellow lentil stew), Kikel Gommen (cabbage, carrots and potatoes) and Chicken Tibs (fried chicken without breading, except I made it without the onion and peppers for the kids). We used Injera that we brought back from our trip to Minnesota and kept in the freezer.

A quick note, my Kikel Gommen looks purple because we had red cabbage from our farm share. And, yes, I know the beef stew looks like a pile of poop, but I tried and it tastes delicious even though it looks like crap. Ditto for the lentils, except think breastfed baby poop. Hey, I know you are all thinking it, so why not put it out there? Despite the fact that I desperately need a food stylist, I'm proud of the meal. It tasted pretty good and reasonably authentic. My kids and Dan loved it.

If you want to learn more about Ethiopian New Year, click here. Chatty Cathy also has a good link on her blog. I tried to use Cathy's link to no avail.

Oh, and we usually don't have such a loud tablecloth on the table. Nama was here and told the girls it is never too early for Halloween (her favorite holiday). We had to start decorating today because the girl were sooo excited. Thanks, Nama!

In other news, the Newbie started crawling. I also have lots of photos to post-- Uncle A came to visit and we had a great visit with the cousins (until we had to kick them out to go to Disney on Ice, that is a story for another day--Sorry guys, blame Nama!).

Go Irish!

The Newbie's first ND Game (on TV, because taking three kids to the ND game would be a disaster).