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The Other Side Part 3: Warming Up

Thanks for visiting our blog about our journey to adopt our son from Ethiopia!  It's been a long process and we are finally blessed to share the stories from the other side of the earth, in beautiful Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Catch up on previous post to this series by clicking Part 1 and Part 2  Meeting Our Son. Saturday, August 8, 2015   Visit Day 2 We woke from a restful and much needed sleep. I woke up thinking "thank God this is really happening and not another dream!" We unpacked our bags and settled more into the room at the Guest House. 10:00 a.m. is the first visiting hours for the day so the agency driver arrived to the Guest House to drive us to the Foster Home.  The nanny brought Tarik out to us and we went to the visitation room to spend time getting to know each other.  Tarik cried at first, but did settle down while I held him.  We were sure to bring a small bag of toys including bringing back the toy car "beep beep" and the blue b...