12.7.2011 Went to the Care Center early today. Wondimagegn came strolling up to us. The Care Center only let the adopted children out in the court yard today so the parents could have more one-on-one time with their children. We have a blast playing with all the children, but it IS chaos...so it was very special to have these two hours just together. Wondi's imagination is captured by airplanes. The Addis airport is near the flight path and he gazes up in the sky as they fly by. Sometimes he'll softly say, "Aroh-plain". As I held him, the Care Center Director encouraged Wondi to give me a kiss on the cheek. He smiled and leaned over and planted one on me. Jenae kissed him. There were kisses all around. I leaned him back and held him in my arms not like a baby but similar. He broke into a huge smile. It was like a secret spice had just been discovered. So sweet. We parade around the court yard with him riding on my shoulders. As we pass under the clothes line, Wondi snaged off a clothes pin. He gets down and starts to remove the two wooden pieces from the metal spring. Before I realized it, he crossed the wooden pin pieces and began to fly them around like an aroh-plain. Pipe cleaners were the treat of the day. You guessed it, there were pipe cleaner aroh-plaines too. We played soccer together - passing the ball back and forth. The highlight of the day was around the large metal slide. He climbed up only so far and stopped. He had no intention of sliding down...way too high. But we gave him a ball and he was encouraged to get to the height that he could roll the ball down to Jenae at the bottom. Jenae would skee-ball roll it back up to him. Grand fun! Wondi would put up his fingers and say one-two-three with Jenae as she prepared to roll the ball up the slide. I suppose it was two hours we were able to spend with him, but it went quite fast. 
Tomorrow is our last day to see him until our embassy visit when he can be brought home. Goodness, it was tough to leave him today...can't imagine what tomorrow will be like. We will leave for the airport around 7:00 PM (10 AM Thursday morning Oklahoma time). The flight is scheduled to leave Ethiopia at 11:15PM. We are currently scheduled to arrive in OKC at 9:08 PM Friday evening. If we can, we may attempt to catch an earlier flight into OKC, but must wait and see.
Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. Please pray for these children and the people of Ethiopia. God Bless
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