Rainy Season

The weather now is so different from our first trip. It's rainy season now, and they can be torrential! Though this is "summer" the weather is surprisingly cool. I guess the rains bring relief from the heat, but it wasn't even ever that super hot when we were here in April. I guess it's the elevation? With the rains came blackouts. we had power outages for a few hours in the late evening. good thing we brought headlamps! but being in the dark made us tired and everyone went to bed early.

I forgot to mention that Bedilu has a chest cold. You can actually feel some knocking around in his lungs. Apparently it is not uncommon this time of year, as several other of the babies also have the chest cold. Poor baby B! But he's still a happy fellow. We got to hang with him at the guest house for a an hour and half yesterday afternoon. He was awesome for the first 40 mins. super vocal and active. Then he started getting fussy. feed time! we got to try spoon feeding him again, this time with a little less success than earlier in the day. But we managed, and made a little bit of a mess. After taking him back to the care center, Bek and I were exhausted! And we know this is only a taste of what is to come. So with the black out, we went to bed early.

Today we are going to do a little morning excursion by hired car to Putajira, the halfway point between Addis and Hosanna, the town where Bedilu is from. It'll give us a chance to show Bruce some of the countryside. We'll have lunch and turn around. then this afternoon we are meeting up with our local friend Liwam. He is the best friend of our across-the-street-neighbor's brother. (yes they are Ethiopian). We hope he'll be able to show us this hospital that bekah wants to see. She can chime in on that in a later post. We'll probably grab coffee, too. maybe dinner.

then tonight we are going to get ourselves ready for the big day tomorrow!! We'll take Bedilu into care and custody. Embassy and goodbye ceremonies.

love from Ethiopia ~ chaatie & bek