Two More Waals

We are going to be traveling back to Ethiopia with all four of our daughters.  This will be our first trip back since we adopted Neti and Me...

These are the adopted kids of the presenters of the orphans workshop at NYC . Neti and Meke Waal Daughers of Tracy and Rhonda Adopted from ...

A shout out to all Naz NYC ers who are passionate about changing the world for orphans... Joel Tooley, James Smith, and I will be presenting...

Ethiopian Orphans from Simon Scionka on Vimeo .

Well, the contest is officially over today. It became so difficult for our family to determine the winners that we finally just put your nam...

As I mentioned in my last post, we've received several copies of "Handbook on Thriving as an Adoptive Family" for submitting t...

You've probably figured out by now that I quit blogging exactly one year after we brought our girls home. Since then life has "nor...

The day we first met... ...and exactly one year later.

It's hard to believe, but a year ago tomorrow we met our little girls for the first time. To celebrate I compiled a list of my 10 favor...

For those of you who loved the T-shirt story , this one's even better. When we were at the orphanage in July, 2007, we snapped a picture...

The preschool Meke attends encourages kids to use their imagination and tell stories. This past week the teachers sat down and recorded the...

Saturday we spent a little bit of time getting to know Fetya and Josiah, the Harbaugh's new kids, at the park. Lots of fun!

Our friends, the Harbaugh's, arrived home from Ethiopia last week with their two little ones. Last Sunday night we took gifts and a spe...

We've experienced nearly every extreme food-wise in the past 9 months - especially with Meke. From the very beginning they could really...

Our friends, the Harbaughs , are in Ethiopia this week. This photo of Seth and their new baby, Josiah, was posted on their blogsite. It'...

Some of our best friends in the world, the Harbaughs, are in Ethiopia as we speak. They'll be meeting their kids face to face for the f...

But certainly not American Idol material!!!

Last week, another mother in Belgium was reading our blog with her daughter, Yeabsera, who was adopted from Ethiopia in August. When they c...

Some of our best friends in the world just officially became parents of two little ones in Ethiopia. You can have a look here . They'l...

Wow! This T-shirt thing has generated more email than any post in recent memory (maybe ever). But there's more... Another adoptive mothe...

There's a missing element to the story of the T-shirts. IF we could only figure out where these shirts originated from it'd be a m...

(Believe it or not, this one's true too!) Yesterday, another mother in Belgium was looking at our blog with her daughter, Mastewal, who...

Today, a mother in Belgium was reading our blog to her daughter, Tsion, who was adopted from Ethiopia a few months ago. When they came acros...

We recently found out that Neti and Meke had never seen a book up close before becoming members of our family. No one had ever read to them...

Another first...

Here's where we were eight months ago... ...and here's where we are now...

Here's Meke's latest interpretation of Daddy and Mommy... ...and Neti's latest version of Daddy...

Tomorrow (the 9th) will be 8 months since we first met Neti and Meke face to face. Tonight I was sifting through the old videos and was amaz...

Rhonda worked again last night. I failed at being Mr. Mom today. I completely forgot about Bethany's basketball game. Didn't get ...

This post is dedicated to all you moms and dads out there who do this everyday... Rhonda works two nights a week at the hospital. On the da...

I'm finding that kids are kids, regardless of background. They need to learn the same lessons. I was hoping that a few of the things R...

This is post #200 to twomorewaals.

I'll probably get in trouble from Rhonda for this post. Oh well. When we came home from Ethiopia we brought home an unwelcome guest. So...