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Abegail's Golden Birthday

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"Mommy, it's my golden birthday." "It is? What does that mean?" "I'm going to be 10 on the 10th!" "Oh of course." Abegail had a good day. We went to an indoor water park for her party and then back to the house for pizza and cake. Lots of nice friends to help us celebrate (although we were thinking of the nice friends in MN) complete with flip flop cakes. Happy Birthday Abegail! Happy Birthday Nancy!

Guerrilla Parenting

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Wokelle , as cute as can be! He was just two when we saw him at the AFAA house Who would of thought these Liberian boys would one day meet up to play DS games against one another? Adella is cool Mary is tired but still cool Jerome and his mini-me, Braydon Ricky and his awesome Mommy Mary gets her second wind Looks like Junior has some competition. Annie sure likes those Liberian boys or maybe they like her? One of the people I have most wanted to meet since we adopted is Debbie Googeg and her family. They adopted Wokelle and Mary. She has two other adopted children and knew exactly what I was talking about when I talked about my kids. She is someone who kept me from thinking I was crazy. She and Jerome and their six kids (the tribe as she calls them) came to DC this week to see the sights and last night we all got together. She impressed on me that even her parenting changes from day to day. She says she is "consistently inconsistent." "It's guerrilla p...

A Review of 2009

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Here is our annual Family Video; 2009 style You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/8584476 1-9-10 UPDATE: It should work now!! Untitled http://vimeo.com/8584476 Involves Sue Turner .