Random moments

Dessi found these goggles in the house and spent a solid two hours swimming around the living room. It's cuter on video, but it won't upload.



Here's Adai taking a break from banging her ketchup bottle against the cabinet.



And this is Dessi, drawing . . . ME!

Sisterhood

The girls really love each other. Like, sooooo much. Dessi particularly loves to match her PJs to Adai's.



I had been having some trouble showering because every time I took even the fastest of hosedowns I would emerge with Adai crying. On this particular occasion, I heard laughing! Tons of giggles!! I smiled and poked my head out of the bedroom only to see Dessi standing at her new easel with a painbrush in hand, painting her sister. And I don't mean painting her portrait.

I feigned horror, Dessi took a time out, and then I sneaked over to Adai and took her picture.

Doesn't she look like she thinks she's in trouble?

Finger food

Two quick pictures of our little wiglet eating herself some cheerios. I do love this stage, she'll spend 30 minutes happily gumming a few cheerios, and I can dress Dessi for school.

But anyway, the food's not the thing. I ask you -- how cute is this kid? Her face always looks like this -- big smile, kind eyes, such a sweetness. We love her completely.

Snow and sleds

These are some random snowy moments from eric's trip home to montana. He's been gone three weeks now. We miss him.

These were some sunny fun days. Now the snow's dripping away day by day and that which remains is grey and molding. Alas, alack. IT's still spring, and it's nice to see it.

Allergy

I just wanted to quickly write and say that Adai had diarrhea for the first six weeks she was with us. I suspect she has had it since birth. I guess most of the orphanage kids do, but hers did not resolve first with just good clean water and then with a round of metronidazole (flagyl). After six weeks, I on a whim switched to a soy formula and within a few days, it was gone. We went to an allergist last week, and voila. Positive for milk allergy. I also had an O&P and a giardia check done, but both those were negative.

I don't know if this is common with Ethiopioan kids, but if anyone else's new adoptee has a similar issue, it might be worth looking into. The allergist said that if I keep her completely away from any dairy for six months, the allergy might disappear; we plan to retest her in six months.

On a separate note, Eric is en route to DC as I write this. Thrilling! I didn't really believe it would happen until his plane left the ground, but now it has and he'll be two days in DC before coming to Whitefish for two weeks. I told dessi about it this morning, but she didn't seem to get it. Maybe she was just stunned.

iphone pics

A few pics

All is great in our little world, our little town, our happy life. Eric is probably coming home this week for a visit (!!!!!) and today is a bluebird sky and 20 degrees (warm, for a bluebird-sky day -- those tend to be cold).

Here are some pics that I scrounged up, stuff that the grandmas have taken and emailed me. I don't have my thing to download them from my own camera -- that was left behind in Cote d'Ivoire. Not that I've taken many pictures myself, anyway. I know I will regret that some day very soon. . . Adai already has changed so much!!