Ok, I am not going to promise that photo friday will happen every week even though I wish I could, but it will happen when I can get my butt in gear and take picture of my children:) So here you go, our first photo friday pics.
Archive for the ‘Family’ Category
6 Nov
Photo Friday
4 Nov
I must be crazy
Three kids in a thrid floor, two bedroom condo with no backyard. Life in our little nest above the trees is quickly going from cozy to cramped. As we have nt put our place on the market yet I feel like my life is being lived in a limbo of sorts. Our place is not [...]
29 Oct
Nursing update
So it has been a few weeks since I posted about my adventure in nursing my son Esuyawkal, here is what has been happening.
I tried the SNS and It is was a disaster:( I felt like an octopus with milk spraying everywhere from the teeny tiny tubes. The nipple shield would not stay on and [...]
28 Oct
Giardia meds
So as I have mentioned before Esu came home with giardia which is very common all around the world. He is currently on antibiotics for this and is showing improvement. The medication that Esu is on for his giardia is called, Metronidazole, and it is nasty. The taste is horrid even though it has been [...]
28 Oct
And so it begins, “The sick season”
“The sick season” is what I affectionately call fall and winter, it did not used to be that way but since having had kids that pretty much is the way it is. Last year I don’t think we went more than 2 weeks without someone getting sick, last year was a nightmare that at times [...]
26 Oct
Christmas in October???
I am one of those people who pretty much loathes seeing Christmas stuff next to the Halloween stuff. So the thought of Christmas shopping this early does not appeal to me all that much, BUT supporting a worthy cause does appeal to me. Helping make a difference in a child’s life appeals to me and [...]
22 Oct
DIY homeschool materials
Several posts back I mentioned that our school time each day was a challenge because Anwen needed more to do. A fellow homeschooler recommended putting together some preschool bags for her to use during school time. She recommended things like stencils, lacing cards, lacing beads, alphabet cards that match up, etc. I really thought that [...]
22 Oct
The Ethiopian pout???
Our darling son Esuyawkal has this face he makes and it is pretty hysterical, we affectionately call it “the stink eye”. I recently read that this might be a very common face amongst young Ethiopian children. So I am posting some pictures of “the stink eye” and hopefully we will gain some conformation as to [...]
21 Oct
The next big challenge
Just as our lives are starting to normalize we have decided to move on to our next big challenge, and that challenge is- selling our condo. We have wanted to sell since just before we started our adoption but decided to put it off until the adoption was complete. Now we are out of [...]
18 Oct
First photo
This is our first family photo, I love this picture!!
This photo was taken the day after we got home at the memorial service for my grandmother who died the day before we left for Ethiopia. It the midst of the sadness there was some joy. About two hours after this photo was taken I was [...]
