This last week was pretty busy. We are officially on Summer Break. Yahooooo!!!! That means that I get to spend all my time with the boys. I love it. No more leaving them to go to work. Dawit is starting to realize that I will be here in the mornings. He comes running in, anywhere between 3:30 and 7:00 saying "Mommy no work? Daddy go work?" Even though we are loosing sleep; life couldn't be better. And the improvement in behavior and attitudes has been huge. They still get mad; but who doesn't? Consistency is definitely a big deal in their behavior.
We celebrated 3 months home last week. The boys have officially been in our care longer than in CHI's. But unfortunately not their orphanage. (we have 16 more months before that is true) We are getting ready for Dawit's birthday party. He talks about it often. He picked a curious George theme.
My Little Monkey is turning 5
He even prays for a happy George party. It's very cute when he inserts it in the middle of his Amharic prayer. I love it. He usually gets a goofy grin on his face after he changes the prayer. And then will say, "pray like mommy daddy".
HUGE progress with Sintayehu this week. He officially stopped saying he doesn't like America. Again, just jinxed myself but what a great thing. He even said America was on his top 5 list of great things. Below Praying to God, Learning, and family; but it ranked above eating :) Talk about priorities. He has his figured out better than most adults. He is anxiously waiting to do some traveling this summer. Our vacations have to be short/cheap this year due to the traveling to Ethiopia, but we can do some great California trips.
We made our first Ethiopian meal and I got two thumbs up from the boys. Sintayehu wanted to share his food with the families in our Bible study. So we made Kulet (usually beef but we did turkey stew), miser wat (without much pepper), and Amharic. The Miser wat was "perfect" according to Sintayehu, and the others got a "thanks for trying" but in the end they liked them more than the ones they had at the local Ethiopian Restaurants. Sintayehu wants to start taping our meal attempts and put them on You Tube for other adoptive families. So that is our next adventure :)
Father's day went really well. We celebrated with Nick on Saturday. We went to Big Bear to a deserted mining town. Sintayehu was in 7th heaven. With all of the history and explanations of the years and events, he couldn't stop smiling. And Dawit liked climbing on the rocks. On Sunday, we hung out at my parent's house with my family and Bar-b-qued and swam, according to Sintayehu, it was the best day because it was church and family (there are those priorities again). We took some cute pics for presents for father's day
Old Mine in Holcomb Valley
Climbing on Rocks in Holcomb Valley
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