Gotcha! A Year of James
February 13, 2013---Gotcha, Melaku! Gotcha for good! Melaku at nine months. Melaku at eleven months. Melaku at thirteen months and now staying with us in the guest house waiting on the US Embassy. Melaku getting ready to say good-bye to Ethiopia and hello to America. No one rocks a Hawaiian shirt like James Thurman (seventeen months). James has spent a lot of this year sleeping at the most random times. Hanging out with mama and brother---A LOT. He knows how to cheese and how to rock a bear mask! Brothers and friends. Never long without a smile and a ball. First haircut at a barbershop. Two years old. Today is James' "Gotcha Day". A year ago today we picked him up from the orphanage and took him back to the guest house. We waited a few days for clearance from the Embassy to travel and then made the arduous trip back to Kentucky and to John Owen. It has been one of the most difficult years of our lives for many rea...