e learned how to tickle….first he would squeeze his own legs and say tickle tickle tickle, and now he will tickle other people…it’s adorable!  and he also says “poda” and pinches his fingers together (the itsy bitsy spider…)
he is totally weened off of the bottle now, and the dr said to get him to drink [...]

We have been weening E off of the bottle….we weened the daytime ones first, which were very easy, then the bedtime one, also easy, then the 5:00 am one!  This one was harder, and he fought us a couple of nights, but last night he slept all night (from 8:30 to 8:30)!!!  Now we are [...]

Ender went to the dr a couple weeks ago, and they said he is doing well!  He is 23 lbs 3 oz (between the 50th and 75th percentile) and is 32.25 inches tall (above the 95th percentile).  We now have to ween him off of bottles…so far we have him off of his daytime bottles, [...]

Ok, we have decided to officially begin the adoption process!  We are planning to begin our homestudy sometime in the next month, and we are getting our application to the agency ready to send off. 
Ethiopia has a “rainy season” from mid-June to mid-September, and their courts are closed during this time (so we won’t be able to [...]