Anna's Anatomy Lesson

Starting to fugure out the differences between boys and girls...

According to Anna:
Daddy have a peanut
Ernie have a peanut
Anna have a bubeyena
Mommy have...a privacy

Kids are hilarious.

Anna in the Paper

Noelle and Anna headed to the Sundiata Festival at the Seattle Center last weekend. The festival is a huge annual celebration of African and African-American culture. While they were there, they met a 105-year-old man named Otis Clark. A reporter for the Seattle Times happened to be nearby, and Anna ended up with her picture in the paper...

Here's a link to the picture on the Times website (if you want to see the caption), as well as the article about the festival in general.

Anna in Action

Here's some video we shot of Anna while we were in Ethiopia (warning - if you do not like cute babies, don't click play!)

Home!

Hello friends,

36 hours of travel and 2 lost bags later (thanks United), we made it home! Due to some schedule changes, we got back a couple of days early, so we get to spend Christmas morning at home instead of on an airplane. It was an amazing trip - more details in the days to come. Time to rest...

Brian, Noelle, Ernie, and Anna

Ethiopia Update

Hello friends,

 

We just wanted to drop a quick line to tell you all we made it here safely, and that Anna is as wonderful and perfect as we expected.  We have mostly been taking it easy so far, hanging out at the House of Hope and getting to know our new daughter.  Anna does everything you would expect a 4-month-old to do.  She enjoys watching everything going on around her, likes her tummy time, wakes up Mom and Dad in the middle of the night, spits up quite frequently.  Everyone here says she is very serious, but we've gotten a lot of smiles out of her in the last day.  I guess she was just waiting for her mom and dad to get here from America...

 

Brian

Leaving Tomorrow

Hi all,

Tomorrow is the day! We leave at 7:30 AM (thanks for the ride, Dad), and arrive in Addis Ababa Monday night. We will be back in the evening on Christmas day.

I'm not sure if we will be able to post while we are over there, but we will do our best. Thanks for all your support in this journey - next time you hear from us, we'll have met Anna!

It's a Girl!

Great news! Our court date in Ethiopia was this morning and everything went smoothly, so we are officially (finally) Anna Etagegnehu's parents. Which means we can post pictures! So here she is:

We're not exactly sure yet when we will be traveling, but it looks like it might be the week before Christmas, arriving home on Christmas day. More info as we get it...