Our Growing Family: Happy 4th of July!!!

We had a fun, busy, crazy weekend. Eyob celebrated his first Independence Day. He also got to meet his paternal grandparents for the first time. He bonded instantly with Poppy. In fact the day before when I was telling him about Nanny and Poppy coming to visit, he said "Poppy, Daddy." Then he went to get a picture off the endtable and pointed to Poppy. So he was very happy to finally meet him. On the 4th of July we went to the local park where we met upwith some friends. The kids played on the bouncy rides and playground toys, ate popcorn, ice cream and corndogs. They had a great time. We ended the evening with an awesome firework display. The kids did well even though the fireworks didn't start until 10:15. On Saturday we all slept in and then went to the Science Center to see the Titantic Display and then we took the kids to have a portrait done with Nanny and Poppy. It was certainly a challenge getting all 5 kids to sit still and smile on cue, especially since Ilana sits still for exactly 3/10 of a second and is scared to death around strangers, i.e. the photographer. Of course when we finally had Ilana placed the other kids where getting restless. We were actually able to get two fairly good pictures but apparently "smile" is one English word Eyob does not understand. On Sunday we had Nanny and Poppy take some family shots for the post placement reports which of course went equally well. Overall it was a wonderful Independence Day weekend.