Well, it was incredible! Travis brought her at 1:30 pm our time. She cried when she met us because she had just woken up from being in the car for 2 hours and she was handed over to pure strangers...poor girl. But within minutes she began taking in all of the surroundings. She is more beautiful than her pictures. I'm not posting a picture just yet because we're having computer problems. I'll try later.

She says "ha-ja" over and over, and loves mocking us...sticking out her tongue to spit or wrinkling up her nose and breathing in and out really fast. We got one laugh/smile out of her.

We met her outside then brought her upstairs to our room when Travis left. We were ready for some big fun and she fell asleep within 10 minutes! I guess she feels comfortable. We've taken lots of cute pictures DESPITE the fact that my hairdryer blew up and our converter is smoking. No good hair day for me. Can't wait to post them, though. What a cutie.

We haven't left the guesthouse today. We decided to call our driver (it's 9:30) and ask him to get us something to eat, get Ava some socks, and me some Diet Coke. He's actually just sitting around waiting for us to call. Unfortunately, Ethiopia shuts down at dark. Hmmm. No SuperCenter. Just water. No Diet Dr. Pepper. And I'm still happy as can be. Kind of unfair...Gary has his fill of Ethiopian coffee...pretty stiff he says.

Kids, you are still at school right now, so this will be posted when you get to the Cobbs. Hope everything is going well. Please know we think about you ALL the time. We can't think about Ava without thinking about how much fun she's going to have with her awesome brothers and sister.

I'm pushing it, writing this much without the internet service going out. So I'm going to stop and post again to the kids, if it will let me.

Love you all. Thanks, Kyle, Tanya, Granny, Papa, and Nana for taking care of the kids. We know they're in good hands!

Tammy