We have THREE boys!!!

We found out this morning that our case was approved in court yesterday, so our little guy is legally our son now!!!  We’re officially a family of FIVE!  We had a good visit with him this morning.  He was playing inside because it had rained, and he ran up to greet us when he realized we were in the room.  We stayed for about 2.5 hours, and tears were streaming down his cheeks when we left – broke my heart.  We’ll see him one last time tomorrow before we fly out later tomorrow evening.  I can’t believe our time in Ethiopia is coming to a close already.  The week has flown by, and tomorrow will be a hard day for sure.  The group that was here last week before us already has travel dates for their second trip/Embassy appointment.  They will be coming back in about TWO WEEKS!  We don’t know yet if our second trip will happen as quickly, but we’re ready for our little man to be HOME and for our family to be under ONE roof!

Tonight we went to dinner with Wass at a traditional Ethiopian restaurant.  It was a cultural experience for sure!  There was a live band, and traditional dances were performed for entertainment.  I’ll post a video from tonight here on the blog once we get home.  We got to Skype with the big boys back home today, and it made me miss them!  As incredibly hard as leaving will be, I’m really ready to see Riley and Cole!  They’ve been such troopers throughout this whole process and especially during our time apart.

I’ll leave you with a few pictures from today.  This is our hotel . . .

Wass & Brad . . .

There’s a lot of new construction going on in this part of town (and all over Addis Ababa really).  The scaffolding is made out of wood . . .

There are goats, sheep, cows, donkeys & horses all over the place here!  They just hang out beside or IN the roads and even nap while cars and people steadily pass by!  At night they all leave the streets and go home!

This is Hannah’s Hope – such a wonderful place!  I took a lot of pictures inside of the buildings today and will do a separate post on them sometime soon . . .

This is the van we’ve been riding around in all week.  Wass has been a great chauffeur!

Please pray for us as we say goodbye to our little boy tomorrow.  I’m going to try REALLY, REALLY hard to not cry in front of him.  I want his memories of our last day together to be happy ones.  Pray that God fills his heart with peace and that we’re able to bring him home soon.  We’ll fly out tomorrow evening and arrive back in Nashville Saturday afternoon.  Thanks for following our journey as we’ve been in Ethiopia!