Today is crazy hair day at Wilmore Elementary School and the only thing we could think of to do with the boys hair was shave it with some kind of design. Mickey's has a cross in it. Ababa really outdid himself with AJ's. See below.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Chinese Anyone?
The boys helped me make supper tonight because I'm learning that they eat it with less complaining when they help make it. AJ made orange chicken and Mickey made Schechwen (sp?) noodles with shrimp. All out of a bag, of course, but they did it! I also made them serve everyone at the table what they made. So many lessoned learned here and they didn't even realize they were learning. Mickey practiced using fractions and learned new words like "skillet". Also learned lessons on helping others and serving others before yourself.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Dominoes
Somehow the first thought I had when I saw the kids playing dominoes was of all the old men in Jamaica who sit around playing dominoes (eventhough I'm pretty sure they don't play with T*y Story dominoes). The second thought was Is this a preview of my kids in 70 years. I hope they still want to play games together when they are old and grey haired.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Momentous Morning
Today was a momentous day in our house. Mickey tried cereal with milk for the first time and he liked it! He started with about 6 pieces of K*x cereal and maybe a tablespoon a milk, but liked it so much, he tried some more. Then he tried some strawberry milk and drank about 1/4 cup of milk (albeit half of that was syrup). AJ decided to be adventurous himself and drank about 1/4 cup of chocolate milk. This is huge for both boys as most Ethiopian do not drink any milk. The boys are always amazed by my fingernail strength and growth, which I always attribute to the amount of milk and milk products I drink/eat. My parents owned a dairy farm until I was about 18 months old and we have always been a milk drinking family. Mickey has decided he wants his fingernails to grow better so, God love him, he's trying the milk approach. I told the boys this morning the calcium helps their bones be strong and their hair be strong too and AJ said, "oh no" in a somewhat panicked voice. We figured out that he was afraid that his hair getting strong would mean it would be even harder to cut. He has the wonderfully, tight curly Gumuz hair that already gets pulled whenever Matt tries to shave it with the clippers. Poor kid, it really does hurt to get a hair cut. My hope is that if he keeps drinking milk, the hair will relax a bit from the added strength. Not sure there is any proof of this, just a mother's hope.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Bikes, Bikes, and More Bikes
Spring has hit KY, well, until a cold front comes through tomorrow. Today is supposed to be 80 and Thursday is supposed to be 47. Classic Kentucky weather! The kids are thrilled to be able to spend long hours outside, usually on their bikes. Matt & I bought ourselves bikes yesterday since we found them on clearance (thanks to some light damage) and our bikes from high school are broken. The kids have been begging for us to ride with them so now we have no excuses.
I bought a bright, pink "cruiser" bike, which really means "old lady bike". Got the big fat seat and everything. All I need now is a big, flowery basket on the front. But when its $40 off original price, I'm not going to complain. Matt opted for a brown mountain bike, since he likes to go a little more off-roading. The kids were thrilled. Essie took the picture of me below, but sorry, I didn't get one of Matt. Mainly because when I came home from work, he and the girls had been working on a surprise for me (see video below).
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