Fatherhood and Fifty (or Big Life Changes Come in Bunches!)
The last few months have been a whirlwind! The trip to Ethiopia in June to meet Mihiret and travel around and have our adoption hearing. The trip to Wyoming a week later for Bighorn and the cathartic effort there. A summer of totaling reorganizing our place, putting up a new wall to create a nursey, throwing away tons of stuff, putting a ton of stuff in storage, and generally trying to get our place ready for the new addition! Then after also squeezing in Escarpment 30K and NYC Tri and mostly tri-oriented training in, we got the call to go back to Ethiopia in mid-August! After 5 days of bonding with her and our embassy appointment to finalize everything and get the US visa, we finally got to bring her home (after a trip of nearly 24 hours) on August 25th! Five years of trying to adopt, 10 years trying to become parents.....Mihiret is WONDERUFL--social, inquisitive, walking, beautiful, into everything, just like a one year old should be (her first was last Friday !). But she als