Busy Day!

Tuesday in Ethiopia was wonderful for us!  We were still adjusting to the time change.  We all woke up in the middle of the night here and were wide awake.  Endale slept like a champ!  The guest house has a sweet cook named Hewitt who makes breakfast for everyone in the house.  Yesterday, we had something that would be similar to spring rolls (yes! with veggies) for breakfast.  She hand rolled them the day before.  They were yummy!

After breakfast, we were excited to get out and see what we could in Ethiopia.  We joined our new friends, also from our agency, and went out to the market place to shop.  As we drove through the city, I just took everything in.  We also visited a scarf making factory.  This organization provided a place where men and women could make scarves to earn money for their families.  The women would have to walk up a mountain to gather wood and carry it back down on their shoulders.  Now, at the factory, each scarf that is sold has name attached to it and whoever made the scarf receives the money.

Outside of the scarf factory, there were lots of kids playing and Camden went right over and started playing with them.  They loved playing with him.  Here are some pictures from our day.  Endale was right there with us, but we can't show you his face yet.....stay tuned!

We also took care of some things that needed to be checked off our adoption list.  The other couple also had to do the same things, so we joined them.  We had to get small passport photos of the babies and copies made of some of our paperwork.  Since there isn't a Walgreen's on every corner, we were taken to a professional photo shop to get the pictures.  We all laughed and smiled at all the props as we were there just to get a 2x2 head shot of our kiddos.  We weren't exactly sure what we were going to get, but it turned out perfect!

At the end of the day, Matt and I were blessed to meet up with a Southern Baptist missionary that is here in Ethiopia with his family.  We had brought some medicine and supplies for his family.  He came and picked us up and we spent the evening having dinner and sweet fellowship with them.

We are so in love with our little guy.  He is as mellow as can be.  He will be 20 months at the end of this month, but he is tiny!  He is wearing size 2 diapers and 6 month old clothes.  I will also add that he as cute as cute can be!  (Yes, that is a teaser....as soon as we pass court, we can show him to the world!)