July 2009

On cloth diapering

Submitted by admin on Thu, 07/30/2009 - 2:15pm

So, I know some of you are interested in how the hemp baby diapers are working out. In my measly two months of experience, I've learned a few things, so here you go.

As soon as I started looking in to cloth diapering I found a whole world of variety and options I didn't know existed. After looking at All-in-Ones, pre-folds, fitteds, and pocket diapers I decided to make fitted diapers to use with Thirsties covers.

9 months old in June

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/29/2009 - 2:36am

Glory Ethiopia

Submitted by admin on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 1:49am

Now that I've finally finished blogging about our trip, I'll post some more recent updates, but before I do, I wanted to highly recommend our guide to anyone and everyone who has the opportunity to travel to Ethiopia. Our guide, Daniel was amazing. He is very knowledgeable about his country, reads a lot, is open to talking about most anything, and is all around very good at what he does. We paid up front and from then on, we didn't have to worry about where to eat, where to stay, what to do.

Gotcha Day (& Week) Video

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 12:37pm
Here is a video that we put together that shares some of the special moments we captured in the first week that we had Tate. It includes a video of us meeting Tate for the first time, as well as some pictures from while we were still in Ethiopia with him. We hope you like it.

Back to Addis

Submitted by admin on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 2:38am

Sunday we said farewell to beautiful Lalibela and the mountains and flew back to Addis. It was quite exciting to know that we wouldn't leave the city again until we had our son in our arms. Being back in the city didn't fail to provide lack of adventures and we spent our final day as a family of two exploring the city.

We walked out our hotel in the late morning, intending to just go on a short stroll. (Thus the absence of pictures). About two minutes after we left the hotel, an Ethiopian man, headed our same direction, greeted us.

Children's Village

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 3:11pm
Back to blogging about our trip and only have a couple of posts left! I took a brief break while my mom was visiting. We were busy playing with Tate and going on walks.
To pick up on our trip, we spent the last afternoon in Lalibela with our guide Yosef. Yosef grew up in the town of Lalibela, in a well-respected family.