Chineese New Year... uhhh I mean Tet

So to celebrate Tet we need to celebrate with the Chinese in the Cleveland area. The Vietnameese really do not have too much available for the public. SO we went out to a great Chinese Rest. and had an awesome time with great food and fun dragons, and even some firecrackers.

Frozen

So we have been comming up with creative wys to stay entertained when it is soooo cold out, Lake Erie has officially frozen over, so if we were inclined we could walk to Cananda, Trust me we are not that inclined. Today no school since we got alot of snow dumped on us last night and the plows just can't keep up. They are expecting another 4-8 inches today. So cabin fever has officially arrived. I did take the little ones to Lake Erie which is normally a 3 minute walk. We bundled in our snow gear , thought we would sled but the winds off the Lake were too much to bear even our poodle would not come out of my coat so we turned around and went home for warm refreshment. I took all the kids to a bowling alley on Monday when there was no sshool
to help out with boredom. What to do today????

pics or readoption

Officially on his way to US citizenship

So a busy household here the last 2 weeks. We first went to the zoo on New Years eve Day for their celebration of Noon Years Eve and the ball drop at 12 noon. It was very cold actually -3 degrees without windchill. The kids danced around to Radio Disney's DJ and we won some prizes, watched the ball drop and we went to the Rain Forest for lunch and some tropical 83 degree fun. I don't think Abel could understand why we were hanging outside in our ski gear just to watch a ball fall out of the sky and when I tried to explain it to him he just seemed confused. actually since my tears were freezing to my face I was confused as well:)

On Jan 7th we celebrated Ganna, which is Ethiopian Orthodox Christmas with our small but growing Northeast Ohio Ethiopian adoptees group. We went to the local Ethiopian Rest. and a great time was had by all. We just recieved our 4th new member , a very young 6 month boy. Soooo cute. So now a total of 3 boys and one little girl.

Then today we went to court to readopt Abel. it went very well, and was a very easy process. He is now on his way to becomming a full fledged US citizen. They also changed his age today to the much more acurate 2 and a half and not almost 4 year old. So now I can get busy sending court orders to insurance companies, etc. Adoption process almost complete. Whew. I am going to post lots of pics of the last few weeks.