Firsts!

Our children are experiencing many firsts...

• Escalators at the airport... "Daddy, how you do this?"
• The airplane... big excitement... yet... "Mommy... I like car... Airplane too long" (not fans of the long trip)
• Non-Ethiopian Food - that's a post all in itself. 
• At the pool... the lifeguard blew the whistle and yelled, "Break!" - so all the kids got out of the pool and the adults continued to enjoy the water.  Our son looked at us, "Mommy... what broke?  We have to go home?"
• Car Seats - they don't wear seat belts in Ethiopia... let alone strapped with a five point harness in a car seat... you can imagine, our youngest was not a fan.  Ruth is perfectly content in her booster seat after seeing the contraption her sister has to sit in.
• In the TH, they received 2 Showers a week - Sundays and Wednesdays.  And not a Shower like we know in America.  My son described it more like a hose with a spray handle. So, needless to say... bath time is a HUGE hit around our home... .sometimes multiple times a day.  Our water bill is going to be an interesting one this month.  No worries... after reading some adoption blogs, I'm seeing this is normal in the first few weeks of arrival.
• Chuck E. Cheese - you know the show they have in the back where people eat?  Our kids were trying to figure out if they were giant adults dressed up.  Ed had to take them up and explain they were mechanical.  My thought - I would NOT want to run into that sized person inside that Chuck E. Cheese Costume!
• We took the kids into the District one day for a picnic on the lawn and to look around the Air and Space Museum.  As we were driving around... we saw all of the monuments... the kids wanted to know if they were Palaces and who lived inside each one.

There are many others... this is just a taste... I'll share more later.

Hope you are having a good evening!