Update

Josiah, Keren and Keziah have adjusted amazingly well. The boys have decided they are triplets. I asked Jeremiah if Josiah was his twin and he said "Yes!" and looked at me like 'hello?!' and then Jimmy said, "No, we are triplets." They are so funny and so precious!! They really have turned into triplets. We always dress them the same and they are big in to matching now. If one's pajamas match another one's pajamas and one other boy has a different pair, whooh, there will be tears. "We has to match!!!" So they have become a little obsessed with the matching thing but they will outgrow It I'm sure.

Since we have been home Josiah has :

1. Learned English amazingly fast

2. Has eaten gum off the shopping cart

3. Learned all of the songs in the Chicken little movie

4. Learned most of the names of the Characters in the Thomas movies

5. Grown an inch since we got our referral

6. Swigged pepper from the shaker at Chick-fil-a and found out it was spicy " Agua Agua!"

7. Oh! Learned some spanish

8. One night around his third week home he decide he didn't want to go to bed. We older people were downstairs watching a movie. After the twin boys fell asleep, little Mr. Sneaky Sneak decided to go though bedtime routine again, all by himself. He went potty, ( unrolled the rest of the toilet paper on the roll.) He brushed his teeth ( with practically all of the toothpaste in the tube.) He changed his pull-up to the Cars movie one and even had time to write all over my homework that was laying on my bed. He felt very productive no doubt. Until Mom talked to him and sent him back to bed. (Oops! That was the last of that! Thank goodness he didn't get into anything too dangerous upstairs!) He is so funny!

9. Bonded extremely well with his new family

10. And most of all, stolen our hearts! :)

We were eating at Chick-fil-a the other day and while we weren't looking, ( after he 'drank' the pepper) poored some of his water out onto the table and licked it off, sending his brothers into hysterics and sending himslef into a 'Don't Do That There are Germs!!!' speech from mom. He just laughed and said "Wo-kay (ok) mom" He is the family clown. We LOVE baby boy Siah! The girls have quickly become the little spoiled princesses and don't like to be put down anymore and they have their whole family wrapped around their chubby little fingers. I will have to try to post pictures soon but don't have any recent ones on this computer.

Day 5 In Ethiopia

Today is Thursday, November 23rd 2007.... It is official. I LOVE Ethiopia and don't want to leave. (I can't wait to go back to stay longer next time. As in like move there.) Today we got up kind of late and had breakfast downstairs in the Hilton. Josiah had something that he didn't like and made a huge deal out of it, spitting it out all over the floor. He has had some tummy problems all day today poor lil' fella. Papa got some "Anana" yogurt thinking it was 'Banana'. Nope, it was pineapple. It was pretty good, just not banana like he was expecting. :)

"Peekoo!" Ok, this next picture was taken right before he smashed his little finger in this mean ol' highchair. :( ( it latched on the bottom and he kept sneaking his little finger under and unlatching it,laughing and lifting the tray [he knew he wasn't supposed too] and the last tikme he tried it he dropped it. ouch.) From these pictures you can see how the restaraunt us pretty nice and very clean. And Josiah just spit his food out going "Ptuh! Ptuh! Eww!" oops! We took Josiah out to the playground today and he loved it!! Cutie trying not to smile :) There is that gorgeous smile!! You can just read the look on his face "I better hang on tight!" ( yes, i rode on the nauseating merry go round thing, one advantage to being small! :) Ellie and Keziah on the tiny swing... Ellie and Keren on the really tiny swing... After breakfast, we went to buy more water bottles and headed off to eat at 'Top View' The food was VERY good and the waitress gave me and Joanna a talking to about not eating our veggies :) "You don't like??! Why you don't eat?" (pointing to the veggies on our plates) After lunch we went outside and took pictures of the view. It was so amazingly gorgeous and heartbreaking. (Much like Entoto Mt.)

Then we headed off to a little coffee shop where Travis accidentally payed about 25 American dollars for two jump ropes :) It was sooo funny because he didn't even realize it until we were gone. It was a confusion with the birr again. Travis joked later about having looked up the word 'thief' and 'rude' in his Amharic dictionary so he could go back and talk to that guy. He ended up giving him 200 more birr though instead of telling him off when we went back a few days later :)

Then we set off for Kolfe! You will have to go read what my Mom posted about our time at Kolfe if you haven't already. Click here for that post.

Here is where The Cutie, Hilarious, Silly, Goober of a Keren comes in... The ride to Kolfe was long and it was exceptionally hot this day. Well, I had Keren in the snuggly in the car. She was being such a little stinker, first she pinched me with her sharp little nails, then she hit me and Josiah and guess what she did next? She threw up all over me and LAUGHED!! The burp cloth stayed dry miraculously but I didn't. (*I brought a change of clothes with me everywhere after this and let my mom take Keren :) I love her so much and she is soooo sweet most of the time but I was not very happy with her right then. Going to Kolfe was one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced. I am so glad that we went, spit-up covered and all. We went back to he hotel and ate in again. It was an amazing day and I wouldn't take out a single experience. Well, it would have been kind of nice to stay dry...:-)

Heehee :)

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Make sure you watch all the way to the end!! They have never seen the charlie bit me movie either! :)

Josiah Abel

Stinkin' Candida Cleanse...

I don't know if you guys have ever heard of this but it is so not fun. :) Basically, candida is yeast and if you have too much in your body it causes health problems. Such as: Sinus infections, Migraines, Tooth aches(?) recurrent ear infections, fatigue, etc. etc. Basically it causes TONS of problems. I have had a REALLY bad sinus infection since before our trip to Ethiopia and I have been sick constantly. We found out the reason yesterday and I have to go on a candida cleanse diet which should clear up everything I have. So for two weeks I can only eat organic stuff such as: wild rice, beans, some meats, vegetables and some fruits and a few other things along with a yeast cleanse supplement and some other vitamin things. You can not have ANYTHING that has sugar in it (and no milk either). It is supposed to 'starve' the yeast of everything and it will go away taking my painful sinus problems with it. I am very excited about that but not the eating part :) It is worth it though for the end result!! Several people in my family have done this and it REALLY helped. Here is my lunch for today, plain cucumbers. I LOVE cucumbers though so I was so glad when I found out I am allowed to eat these :) (Ok, the bowl was full when I started eating. lol) (I could've had more for lunch just so you know but i just chose to eat this instead. just to clarify that I am not being starved over here. :)

Dancing Twinettes

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And, yes our house is usually this loud even without the music :) Seriously.

My twinettes are 1 year old!!

It is true! They turned a year old yesterday. We had their birthday party Sunday but we are having the family celebration tonight. I will post pictures from the party as soon as we get them back from my sister! It was a lot of fun and it was so neat to get together with other adoptive families.

Charlie bites

Ok, I stole this from Tara's blog but I thought it was sooo funny so I had to post it! :)

Cutie Keren

Day 4

Thursday, November 22nd 2007 It is Thanksgiving Today!!! By far THE coolest Thanksgiving I have ever had. Today we went to the Gladney office again and met their birthmom. It was such a unique experience that it is really hard to explain. She was crying when she came in the room but was sooo happy when she left. Josiah was cranky anyway today because he didn't have his nap but then, when we had to leave, he did not do well at all. He was crying and I hope he never has to go through anything like that again! We spent about three hours with her and my parents got to ask her all sorts of questions. It was such a blessing to have been able to meet her. We then went back to the hilton and to cheer Josiah up, took him to the pool. We bought him some little arm floaties and he loved being able to swim all by him self. He is a little dare-devil. We had to keep a tight grip on him because once he took off running ( laughing hysterically) and just jumped in the water!! Luckily my dad was in the water and pulled him up out of the water just in time. Even with water up his nose and coughing he had a huge precious smile on his face like "That was fun!", crazy child!! He does that alot though. (If he can get his little hand out of yours he will take off running (fast) laughing the whole time. Once in a parking lot and about ten times in the airport on the way home to the US pulling his little rolling backpack behind him.) He LOVES his little rolling backpack and takes it everywhere. He will go get it in the morning and his little 'cars' shoes and stand at the hotel door asking "Ciao?" He is soooo cute!! The girls are beautiful, I just want to eat them up!! We just got back from the Sheraton for Thanksgiving dinner. We got to meet some other Americans and had a great time with all the gladney staff. Here are the McConomys. We traveled with them and they stayed at the same hotel with us. It was so nice to have another family with us especially since there were no other Gladney families traveling at Thanksgiving. The Gorgeous view from the Sheraton: The weather tonight was gorgeous and Josiah had so much fun running around on the balcony area outside our table at the Sheraton with the 'mimi' or Silas, Avery, Marta and Enoch. Apparently 'mimi' means children in amharic. Well yesterday, Silas and Avery went outside while Josiah was still eating and he cryed and cryed "MIMI!!!" That is when they told us that he was crying for the kids. Silas can't really say the letter 'L'...plus he is from Texas so He called Josiah Abel, "Abayo". ( we didn't start calling Abel Josiah until we got to America.) Silas and 'Abayo' are totally BFFs :) P.S. Silas is Hilarious. I am sure everyone that travels to Ethiopia from now on is going to want to eat him up. He got so excited when he saw this. "Look Daddy! A book clock!!!!!" Not quite :)