A new President and new Residence

While I was unable to watch the Inauguration from school today... I did catch some "live feed" of the events in our IMC. Our family is very excited for our new President Obama. Mehandis continues to call out his name when he sees pictures of him on t.v. or in print. He also claps and says "Wow" when watching his speeches. And no... we aren't straight forward teaching this behavior, just lots of modeling I guess!

On a very different note, our adoption agency has recently sent out information regarding an upcoming move for the "children who are waiting for adoption" in Addis Ababa. So our second child will not be in the same building that Mehandis stayed in... but in a building about a half a mile away. The new care center is called "Mussie" and was previously a private residence. I have included some photos of the new residence.

This is the view from a balcony. The yellow building on the right is the previous care center. The same nannies will be in Mussie that worked at the center Mehandis stayed in.

One of many bedrooms is seen here... with an attached bathroom.

One of two kitchens is pictured above. A lot of Bebelec formula to be made here!

I thought it was interesting to see a map of the area we stayed at. When we were Ethiopia we walked from the Guest House to the Care Center and the Former CHSFS Administrative Office. Looks like the walk will be a little longer next time.