Day 3 in Ethiopia

Today, Friday, we woke up and ate breakfast at the Guesthouse.  We were then taken to the Holt offices for an orientation and then headed to the care center to see Bejigo.  One other adoptive family went with us that day.

The outside of the care center

We entered the care center and had a seat on a couch and waited for the nannies to bring Bejigo to us.  They brought him in and he immediately came right to me.

This is generally not a good sign for attachment, although it was nice that he liked us from the start.  We talked with the nurse about his schedule, eating, personality, etc. and then played for several hours.  I was already in love with him!!!  What a sweetie!!!

At one point we saw little fingers and eyes underneath a door and little voices saying "Bejigo, Bejigo!"  These were his little friends, some of the older kids who were kept in the other room.  Eventually the nannies let the other kids out to play with us too.  There was one little girl, unfortunately I did not catch her name, but she was 2 years old and I absolutely fell in love with her.  She was chubby with a runny nose and loved being tickled and loved on.  Bejigo was doing great.  Healthy as can be and very happy.  When we first saw him he mostly sat.  I tried to get him to crawl and he would go just a little ways and then lay back down on his belly.  He was so loved by the nannies and I could just tell how well taken  care of and loved that he was.  The nannies all would pick him up and kiss him and make him laugh. They call him "Konjo", meaning cute!

I couldn't have asked for better care for him.
He was wearing a long sleeve onesie underneath his orange short sleeve shirt and mis-matched socks.  (even though it was 80 degrees outside.)

His hair was shorter than I expected.  The nannie had told me that they had to cut his hair to put in an IV in his head.  He smiled alot and would put up his hands and then throw his whole body forward with his head on the floor.  We fed him his bottle.  It was then time for the babies to take their nap, so we carried him upstairs and layed him in his bed.  Very cute little beds all hooked together.

The nannies just lay them on their belly and rub their backs to get them to go to sleep.  I honestly don't know how they do that and also keep the kids from crawling into each others beds.  We went to the Golf Course for lunch.

A very beautiful place that you would not expect in the middle of the city with beautiful flowers and landscaping.  After lunch, we went back to the care center and played some more.  It was time to go and then we went back to the hotel and learned hoe to make injera from the lovely women who cook at the Guesthouse.  They thought it was so funny to see the men try to make injera and would just laugh!!!