Berji's domain: With family

Monday, May 18, 2009

With family

On Saturday Dr. Daddy and I babysat our nephews and niece. We don't have much in the way of pictures because with 5 kids 5 and under, we didn't have a lot of time to whip out the camera. But it was nice to spend the day with them.
Eirena and her cousin Louis have a common interest: trains. Here they are reading Louis' new Thomas the Train book together.

We spent Sunday with Tayta. Eirena loves her Tayta and was excited to take a walk with her.

In adoption news, we heard from our agency that adoptions from Addis Ababa are slowed right now as a judge wants to investigate children being abandoned. It isn't related to our agency, but it has slowed all referrals of children in orphanages in the capital.

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Catherine said...: Thank you so much!! The kids had a blast with you guys.; May 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM

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Adoption Timeline

*arrive home with Adisu 16 Nov 09
*US Embassy appointment 12Nov 09
*meet Adisu 10 Nov 09
*travel to Ethiopia 7 Nov 09
*Embassy appointment date confirmed (for 12 Nov) 29 Oct 09
*passed court 19 Aug 09
*court date set (for 19 Aug) 15 July 09
*child assignment 9 July 09
*Dossier sent to Ethiopia 26 Apr 09
*Mailed in dossier to Adoption Ark 17 Apr 09
*Clearance from USCIS to adopt 2 Apr 09
*New appointment for biometrics from USCIS 21 Feb 09
*Attended adoption education training 7-8 Feb 09
*Received appointment for biometrics from USCIS (but will have reschedule it bc Dr. Daddy isn't home) 28 Jan 09
*Home study completed and notarized 15 January 09
*Second meeting with psychologist 23 Dec 08
*First meeting with psychologist 10 Dec 08
*Second homestudy meeting 6 Dec 08
*First homestudy meeting 26 Nov 08
*Applied for I-600 A 3 Nov 08
*Start homestudy 24 Oct 08
*Sign adoption application 16 Oct 08

Eirena quotes

"I can't, I'm baptizing" (When asked to set the table for dinner.)
"When we burped we keep our mouths closed so we don't puke. That's the greatest idea."
"I can't be funny all the time, its just for one day" (yeah right!)
"Joy to the World, the curse is found"
"the rooster made me talk" (on why she was singing loudly during nap time)
"You don't have a beard!" (um, yeah, thanks for noticing~ she wasn't talking to Dr. Daddy!)
"Look! White broccoli!" (Eirena's first introduction to cauliflower)
"You have to focus on driving; not eat ice cream" (Not that she was worried about my driving, it was the ice cream disappearing before she got any that concerned her)
"You haven't bought me an excavator, can you buy me an excavator please?" (I think she actually meant a real one, not a toy exacavator!)
"I'm ready to swim in the pool with the swim suit you got me with a gun" (a water gun, to clarify)
"Please mommy may I have a treat because you love me?" (working the system, otherwise known as 'toddler manipulation')
"Bring in the Jeeps, bringing in the Jeeps,we will come rejoicing, bringing in the Jeeps"
"Thank you Jesus that Fuzzy Bear and Adisu would grow to love you. Amen"
"when will we go to the doctor's office to explore my knee?" (because she has a little (invisible) ouch there)
"we have to get a pack'n'play for the baby because the uterus will squeeze and squeeze the baby out because that's what babies do"
"he smells funny" (quoting from the Velveteen Rabbit, but leaning over Adisu as she said it)
"can I share this with Fuzzy bear?" (three orange segments, and she did 'share' with Fuzzy Bear)
"Today you will be with me in heaven" (does she know something?)
"O Come o commi manuel" (O Come O Come Emmanuel- we clarified that we weren't singing to communists named Manuel)
Me: shall we comb your hair? E: no, its not fun to comb my hair Me: why isn't it fun? E: because that's just the way that it isn't fun (a favorite explanation for things is "that's just the way that it is")
"No, that's not football, that's socking ball." (soccer- the little American!)
"Uc is a frosterated dog" (frustrated, I think)
"you're not supposed to be taking a nap on my bed"
"that's spaghetti" (looking at my hair)
"aww that looks so pretty in your hair" (to Fuzzy Bear upon having a pink bunny clip in his scruff)
"no, my feet fell off my bed" (when I asked her if she got off her bed during nap time)
"In a couple of days Tayta will come and bring me more jelly beans" (she knows where they come from!)
"want to go hiking again"
"Please mommy may I have some snuggles please"
"When I go outside I'm going to wag my tail"
"Please mommy may I put you to bed, please" (she still gets her you & me pronouns mixed up)
"It is fun to run."
"Jesus I love you for trains; thank you for trains. Amen"
"Look at myself running so fast!"
"It takes forever and forever and forever to go to Tayta's house" (3 hrs)
"In 9065 [think 1965] engineers built tunnels through mountains" (mimicking her train books)
"You are my child, my precious one..." (to Efendim, quoting a book of hers)
"Eirena put the scab in her mouth and ate it all up" (gross,eh?)
"I'm so impressed!" (to Uc, mimicing our encouragement to her)
"When I give it [food] to her, she says I'm a little Berji boo boo"
"yay mommy, you ate your food ALL UP!" (clapping for me)
"Mommy,Daddy,Eirena, Uncle Nathan, Aunty Rachel, 'Bekah, Daniel all go away, way way in nice warm car and go to sleep" (not sure about the logic or context on this one)
"Eirena put pee back in potty" (after finishing peeing)
"When Daddy comes home we go to Jaipur" (which is in Rajasthan, India)
"Eirena want nose ring" (oh yes,she did say that)
"trains, trains, trains, I love trains"
"Right now Eirena naughty; she be good girl soon"
"need to go outside and play with trucks"
"want to go see Jesus' barn" (by which I can only assume she means go see a living nativity again)
"Eirena" when asked what was on the blog header (a monkey really!)
"want helicopter" (to go get the advertising balloons)
"ambulance going shopping"
"want chocolate chips" (for breakfast)
"Fuzzy Bear want go swing-slide"