Ana keeps us laughing!

Although Ana is growing up and is no longer the baby of the house, she still likes to come up with things to make us laugh. She still calls the living room the liling room and other stuff like that.

The other day I bought chips for a friend's party. The kids were disappointed when they found out since they were my chips, they couldn't have any! Ethan saw me eating some one day and he asked for one. I agreed and took one from the bag and gave him one. Ana quickly figured out what had happened and came over to claim a chip as well. After I gave one to her, she turned to Mom and said, "Mom, Emily spoils us!" Too funny since it was only ONE little chip!

Also the other day,  Mom was teasing Ana about how she had climbed in bed with her last night. She was saying how a certain, sick little girl NEEDED to get in bed with Mom because she was so cold and couldn't pull up the covers in her own bed!   Ana explained why  by saying, "Well first I put on the covers, but it was too hot. So then I took off the covers and it was too cold. But your bed was JUST RIGHT!"

She's pretty cute!
Some new news too... Minte is saying more words! He jabbers all the time, but it's always baby language, (or maybe it's baby Amharic! We don't know!) He says ow, daddy, down, out, trees and occasionally will say other words randomly or try to copy us! He also is learning body parts and is very proud of himself whenever he gets it right. He has caught on to English fast and he recognizes phrases like, "Do you want to go outside? or Where is Woody? or Where are your shoes? or Time to go upstairs! It has been so much fun!

Hugs and Kisses

Daddy and Minte. A while ago Minte discovered a new, fun game called "RUN TO MOM AND THEN DAD!" But anyways, the idea of the game was to run across the room to Mom, get picked up and kissed, then squirm to be put down and then go running for Dad and his kisses. He did this forever!!!!! I have a video too, which I will post soon. A couple videos actually...

I want to apologize for not writing sooner. I've been having so much going on lately and have not found any time! Even over the weekend! I can't wait til school is done!

Let's cook!

I've just realized that for some reason a bunch of posts have begun with only two words for my title. I try to think of cool titles to catch your interest, so I guess I'm into two worded titles right now!

But, going to cooking.... Ethan and Ana are cooking in these pictures. Ana was so cute in her cook outfit, I just had to take her picture. The hat is held together by velcroe, (I can't think how to spell it. Augggghhh!), so Ana didn't have so much fun taking it off later, but she still has hair so we're good.

 They were playing cook outside and were very intent on it for a long time.  I believe this was a day when I was watching them while Mom was gone and I was trying to get schoolwork done. I was so thankful that they were so busy playing nicely and quietly!

Ethiopian Clothes

We had so many things to get whenever we were at the Ethiopian market that it was really hard to get EXACTLY what we wanted sometimes, but I think we did pretty well. I'm especially happy with the Ethiopian clothes Ana and I have. Ana wore her Ethiopian dress for the first time last Sunday. There are several ways you can put the scarf. Around your head, around your waist, hanging around your neck, etc. When Ana first tried on her dress, I tied the scarf in her hair and I LOVE it! She looks so pretty in her Ethiopian clothes. (picture below)

We can't forget Ethan. He was looking so handsome Sunday as well! I HAD to take his picture. He's not wearing Ethiopian clothes, but who cares???

Minte Dances!!!!!

Minte loves to dance. He jumps, twirls, and wiggles. We think he's pretty cute! If you hang in there until near the end, he bounces his arm up and down as he mouths words. That's his newest thing.

THE VIDEO!

What's going on? Minte is luring me to his seat by offering kisses. Once I go to kiss him, he grabs my head, slams, (he had a little help!) it to his tray, and cracks up.

May I be weird?

I'm gonna take the chance of seeming weird. This was our bathroom in Ethiopia. We were on the third floor and this was the bathroom the whole third floor shared. Fortunately we took up all the rooms on the third floor!!! ;-)  The bathroom wasn't small, but it wasn't large either. It had a toilet, sink, shower, and a changing table that could also be a bathtub.

May I bring your attention to the shower? As you can see, there was a step to the toilet-shower area and the shower floor barely goes into the floor. There was a blue, "don't slip" mat down on it to help you keep your balance while taking the tight shower. And the bar soap holder was outside the shower. The hot water knob kept coming off! I'm not making fun of it. I'm not. I just thought you might find it interesting. I did.

So I know I'm weird. But here's our bathroom.