November Update!

This morning after eating Shreddies I said to Jrock - “let’s call Imagine and see if they have an update!”

He told me I should just chill - but I needed to check in.  Plus our case worker had said we should be getting an update at the end of the month. 

So I called her despite his advice, and she said “I have an update right here on my desktop!” with a laugh. “I will email it right to you!”

So Jrock was late to work while we printed off the pictures.  I can’t share the pics, since we haven’t been through court - but I can describe!

There were a couple of  pictures of the girls each - all in WAY TOO BIG agency soccer jerseys and shorts! Actually, their shirts and short were so big that the shorts go right down to their ankles.  They are smiling, have beautiful eyes - and are TOTALLY bald!  I guess the folks at the agency wanted to shave their heads because their hair was brittle (from being undernourished) and shaving gives their healthy new hair a good start.  Also one of the girls has a scalp rash (maybe the beginnings of the dreaded fungus?!?) so it makes it easier to treat.

The hilarious thing is that they have a “team picture” with the other kids (not babies) in the transition home.  Our girls are like, 1/2 the size!  of most of the other kids! And I mean 1/2 the size of a five year old!  They are so very tiny, swimming in their soccer uniforms and grinning from ear to ear.  So very cute.

We also got a great list of developmental milestones.  We found out that the girls can run and not fall over :-), and one can jump with two feet but the other can only try! We also found that they are trying to dress themselves (but can’t quite manage - cute!) And they are toilet trained (hope that sticks!) and that they have teeth coming in.

Anyway, I printed a million copies, and pasted them all around the house.  Daddy ran off with his pics to work to show them off too.  We are the proudest parent, I tell ya.

I especially can’t get over how small they actually are.  They are not quite kids - not babies… but definitly tiny and cute… or, as we are learning to say in Amharic: precious.