our first Gena as a family

Melkam Gena Charlie!

Today is Christmas in Ethiopia, also known as Gena. Last year was a bittersweet Gena for Mama and Dada. We were waiting to hear from the Embassy and were thinking we would hear from them any day. HA! 

Last year on Gena, it had been one month since we had last held you. We needed a little bit of Ethiopia, so we celebrated at Ethiopian Diamond with a picture of you sitting on the table. 

This year was so much better since we got to celebrate it with you. We celebrated early, on Saturday, but it is now a tradition. We drove up to Ethiopian Diamond with you munching on crackers along the way. You have great taste in crackers. . .

 Once we got to Ethiopian Diamond, you were greeted by the staff. Our favorite waiter remembered you. We had the tibs tour (you know your Dada and Mama LOVE zilzil tibs) and shiro. Here you are munching on some sambussa.

So you ate most of your sambussa and some of the the peas, but that was about it. You had eaten A LOT of crackers on the way. . . Because of this, you didn't want to sit. We tried holding you and then were told by our waiter to let you walk around and play. So we did. (You made some friends. . .)

So what did we eat? Well. . . This is a picture of some of the food about 10 minutes into eating. 

 

 Following Ethiopian Diamond, we stopped by Buy Buy Baby. I know you are not a baby, but they do sell toddler baseball jerseys. We might have picked one up. At this point it had started to snow and you were singing, "Snow, snow," over and over. 

 

We found you a Beckham jersey and then drove so you could play with your friend A. I know, you want to know if we stopped at Portillo's. We did. You ate about half of a cheeseburger and then fell asleep in the car.

Melkam Gena!

Love

Mama