Big Sister Party

In anticipation of our travel call to go pick up B we threw Ella a Big Sister party. She is so very excited about her new role!


We planned food and games, but the tea party was impromptu.

My favorite quote of the day was when I overheard Ella say "this tea is delicious with 5 scoops of sugar in it!"  Can you tell how tiny those tea cups are? The most popular game was the diaper toss, runing through an obstacle course to toss a dirty diaper into a pail- I'm trying to convince Ella that this is an important big sister job- she's not buying it.  
Emma wrote the kids advise about babies into a book for Ella, too cute. 
and Ella's favorite game was the bottle drinking contest which she won.  After the games the kids went up to Ella's room and played detectives (I eased dropped) and the mothers got to talk, it really was a lovely party! We were hoping to travel July 12th, but B still needs to get a passport and TB test so now we're praying that everything will be ready for us to pick him up the 1st week of Aug.  This is by far the hardest wait for us! (only made easier this weekend by Greg breaking his collarbone and needing the time to recover before traveling) 
We have a friend who picked up her daughter in Ethiopia a few weeks ago, she held B and took pictures of him for us.  She said he's so so sweet and looks good and healthy as well as having glowing reports on our agencies transitional house where he is now living. It makes it easier know he is well, but oh how we want to hold and cuddle him ourselves!