Anyone want some injera?

All the paperwork is done. We are just waiting for our social worker to finish writing the homestudy and than we get to send everything away, finally.

Now the fun part begins as we learn how to make some Ethiopian dishes and learn some of Ethiopia's national language, Amharic, which our girl probably doesn't speak seeing as though she is in an orphanage in a region of the country where Amharic isn't spoken much. But she will start learning it once she gets moved to a care center in the city while she waits for the court date (this won't happen for a while).

Ethiopian recipes are easy to find on the internet, and there are Ethiopian restaurants in Milwaukee and the Twin Cities. As for the language, there is a webboard where others who are adopting through Christian World Adoption agency gather and discuss whats going on in their adoption, and a parent there offered a DVD on learning Amharic to anyone who wanted it since she was done with it. Well, I asked for and just got it in the mail the other day. We are exited to start using it, and at least hear what the language sounds like. Here it is:

Since we are done gathering paperwork and have finished most of our education requirements we had time for a little movie night. So Father Martin came up and we watched Apocalypto, one of Adam's favorite movies.

Here are Father Martin and I before the movie:

And here is the movie, itself:

And, two of Francesca's eggs hatched...the other one didn't make it.

Here they are shortly after birth, about a week ago:

And here they are today:

They sure are ugly!

(oh and be sure to check out the video Adam posted below)