VIDEO!!!

We just got back in town (worst experience ever, and we are never flying Delta again--I'll post about our flight back later, we are way to tired and way to irritated for me to write anything about that now)...

I was disappointed b/c our I-171H wasn't in our stack of mail...but...we did get a video of B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The first time we have seen him in video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is amazing, he is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He looks so sad and so serious and so skinny, it breaks our hearts, but makes us even more want to be his parents!  He doesn't speak at all in the video and he doesn't smile, he just keeps looking at the camera like he's trying to figure it out and plays with a partially deflated soccer ball.

We cannot wait to be his parents and hope that the final leg of this paperchase is done soon and that we will legally be B's parents and have home with us soon (we are still praying--fervently, but somewhat optimistically at this point--that we'll pass court before the rainy season closure in Augustish....)

We learned a few important facts:

1. He does NOT speak Amharic
2. We have now heard Ethiopians pronouncing his Ethiopian first name (so we can practice before we go and he'll actually know that we are talking to him:-)
3. He loves balls--the video opens with him clutching a frisbee which he promptly chucks when a soccer ball enters the picture (the whole rest of the video is him toddling around the nursery room tossing the ball to himself, digging it back out from under the crib, and in general amusing himself:-))
4. He is very sad and serious, but his little intent face just melts our hearts
5. He definitely still sleeps in a crib and (although his paperwork says he's pottytrained) he is definitely wearing a diaper in this video

We are praying that our I-171H gets here Monday and we can get our dossier authenticated and sent to Ethiopia by the end of the month...since I have a business trip in there and the end of the month is fast approaching, that may be ambitious, but we are working towards it anyway!

B-we are coming to meet you as fast as we can and we can't wait to be your Mama and Ababa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!