On this day (Monday, April 5th) we had the life-changing experience of meeting T and M face-to-face! We originally thought we would be traveling to meet our kids birth mother this day, but for some reason communication got confused and it did not work out...we would have to meet her later in the week. The joy of seeing our Ethiopian beauties was truly incredible...it is impossible to really capture the experience in words. Through pictures, videos, and updates we had grown to love T and M so much...it was almost overwhelming to see them in person.
They loved the fact that we wore shirts that had their picture on it! M would point at him and his sister on each of our shirts and say their names. We spent about 2 hours together the first day and spent a lot of our time together playing with rocket balloons and playing on the swing set equipment they had at the transition house.
When it was time to leave, it was extremely difficult to leave T and M. M tried to climb into the car with us and T*n***e just stood off to the side on the curb and got watery-eyed. As we pulled away, I asked our guide, T, if that was the most difficult thing he was going to make me do that week...he said "yes". The only comfort was that the next day would allow us to be joined together as a family forever. Hurry up Tuesday..............
That evening Robel (an AWAA employee...and super cool guy) took us out to eat for a traditional Ethiopian meal that included some great music and dancing.
