Good morning everybody. The past couple of days have been pretty busy. Tuesday morning we took full custody of Joy (YAY!). Later that afternoon we had her visa appointment at the US Embassy. That went well and she is officially an Ethiopian/American! Well, a resident immigrant of America from Ethiopia. We will pick up her passport and paperwork this afternoon and then it's off to the airport this evening to catch an 11:30pm flight to Amsterdam. We are there for three hours then we are on a direct flight from Amsterdam to Portland. We will arrive in Portland, OR on Friday at 1:30pm local time there. That's about 22 hours of flying (Our Father, Which Art In Heaven...).
Like I mentioned, Joy has been with us since Tuesday and everything is great... when she's sleeping. When she's awake she wants everything but what she has and fusses consistently. We can't blame her though. Although the nannies at the orphanage loved her so much, they gave her everything she wanted whenever she wanted it (a cultural thing too). She is not taking to not getting what she wants on demand and she LOVES to let us know. She has been sleeping a lot though, I think she enjoys the quietness without being surrounded by other crying children. She is definitely catching up on her sleep.
Shawna and I are doing great. Although our child is definitely the most fussy of the group, we are blessed to have her and are proud she is ours. She is so beautiful (koncho) and takes our breath away every time we look at her. We are doing fine with the fact that she doesn't care for us too much and are encouraged to see her starting to trust us more.
We had the official send-off ceremony at the orphanage yesterday which consisted of some Kaldi's Cafe cake (best cake I ever had!) and a coffee ceremony. We were then able to go downtown and do a little shopping for some trinkets. I stocked up on Ethiopian coffee and Shawna got some cute Ethiopian made stuff. The hotel staff will give us a coffee ceremony (another one!) and we will head to the airport early evening.
We will let everyone know of our travel safety when we can (hopefully from Amsterdam). Thank you so much for joining us and please pray for Joy that she takes to the flight well. I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of ticked off people on the plane by the time we land. We love you all so much and will talk to you soon!
Like I mentioned, Joy has been with us since Tuesday and everything is great... when she's sleeping. When she's awake she wants everything but what she has and fusses consistently. We can't blame her though. Although the nannies at the orphanage loved her so much, they gave her everything she wanted whenever she wanted it (a cultural thing too). She is not taking to not getting what she wants on demand and she LOVES to let us know. She has been sleeping a lot though, I think she enjoys the quietness without being surrounded by other crying children. She is definitely catching up on her sleep.
Shawna and I are doing great. Although our child is definitely the most fussy of the group, we are blessed to have her and are proud she is ours. She is so beautiful (koncho) and takes our breath away every time we look at her. We are doing fine with the fact that she doesn't care for us too much and are encouraged to see her starting to trust us more.
We had the official send-off ceremony at the orphanage yesterday which consisted of some Kaldi's Cafe cake (best cake I ever had!) and a coffee ceremony. We were then able to go downtown and do a little shopping for some trinkets. I stocked up on Ethiopian coffee and Shawna got some cute Ethiopian made stuff. The hotel staff will give us a coffee ceremony (another one!) and we will head to the airport early evening.
We will let everyone know of our travel safety when we can (hopefully from Amsterdam). Thank you so much for joining us and please pray for Joy that she takes to the flight well. I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of ticked off people on the plane by the time we land. We love you all so much and will talk to you soon!
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