Prenatal Yoga Part One

Not successful...
I dusted off an old DVD from my first pregnancy: Prenatal Yoga. I think my first indication should have been that the woman hosting it spoke far too calmly. I know, Sara...that's Yoga!! My sister is a Yoga expert (seriously, I'm not being fecicious). I applaud her efforts now.
So...the kids are all three excited! "Yoga! Yoga! We going to do yoga!" We all sat on the floor in our sunroom, wonderfully bright on a gorgeous fall morning--67 degrees outside. Perfect yoga weather, right?
No sooner does it start, then George revs up his new garbage truck (loud).
Natan climbs into my lap where I am trying to do a "calming sitting thing" and focus on my breathing and pelvis (yes, I am aware of my pelvis because he is jumping on it!).
Mimi is doing all the moves, but is right in front of me, so I have to pretzel myself to get around her. Then, she runs to the bathroom in a rush to wee-wee, holding her own pelvis which she has now too become aware of.
Then, I hear, "Mama...I sorry..." from the bathroom. I pause the yoga DVD, disentangle myself from Natan, and step over the loud garbage truck.
I find Mimi standing IN FRONT of the potty, with a puddle of wee-wee under her. When I take off her BRAND NEW running shoes, another gallon of wee-wee spills out. She is sorry, and I am not feeling very zen, or namaste, or whatever you are supposed o feel.
Granted, I only made it through the first 2 minutes, and one downward dog.
Perhaps one should attempt any kind of calming, pelvis-y type event when the kids are in bed!
I went for a run on the treadmill while they napped instead!

what a week!

To recap: last Saturday morning, we went to see "Sesame Street Live, Elmo makes Music!" It was fabulous--I want that woman's job! I didn't realize when I bought the seats that we would be on the floor, so when the characters stepped out, they walked right past us! Our three just stared the whole time with looks of utter awe on their faces! Then, on the way home, all we heard from the back seat (Nati was sound asleep by now!), "I wanna see Big Bird! Where's Elmo?" etc. We had a BLAST!
Saturday night was spent at the annual "Meadows' Music Party" which is always tremendous fun!
On Sunday, we gathered together some folks (the usual suspects), for George's third birthday. The theme was "construction/building/tractor/gaggo." It was all pretty good!
Spent Sunday evening at the Knoll's for our weekly Sunday night dinner.
So, this week will be a quiet one--zoo with Aunt Sally and not much more!
Note: I would like to say that Dudley responded to the offensive email and I am more grateful than anyone could imagine. I do not know many ministers who would reach their necks out like that and ripple the waters by acknowledging stupidity head on. Thanks, Dudley...and thanks to those who felt the same anger I did.

Enkutatash!

Happy Ethiopian New Year! (on September 12). We are doing an assortment of things to celebrate Natan's first NY with us. We headed to the Atlanta millenium Festoval on the weekend and saw some traditional dancing and heard some fabulous music. The food, of course, was delish!!! Natan was practically drooling! We took Mary Liz, Mary K-K, and Sally along to help us celebrate!
This Friday, we'll head to our fave place, Queen of Sheba for some Ethiopian food and hang with the folks who work there.
Here is a blurb from the agency website about the Millenium:

This month, Ethiopia celebrates its Millennium. Ethiopia uses the Coptic, or Julian, calendar, which is seven years behind the Gregorian calendar used in the Western world. The new year begins on Meskerem 1 -- or September 11 on our calendar. This year Meskerem 1 will mark the start of the year 2000.

The Ethiopian Millennium

Enkutatash, as the new year holiday is called, is traditionally celebrated by giving bouquets of flowers, or more recently, greeting cards. This year, Ethiopians count down the days to the new year as they converge on Addis Ababa for massive celebrations. Ethiopians in the diaspora who can't make it to their homeland will celebrate in their new homes , in the United States and around the world.
The coming of the millennium is a time for Ethiopains to reflect on their nation's history, as well as its future. Because of the unusual timing of the millennium, shortly after the Gregorian millennium and on a date significant in recent history, the rest of the world is paying attention. Coverage in Time Magazine and England's Independant are highlighting this exciting event.

You must read this all the way through!!!!!

I got this from a fellow blogger on an Ethiopian adoption website. It is hilarious, especially to those of you with kids...and those of you who, like me, hear this question constantly: "Are they all yours? Don't you have your hand full!"
Click the link below and read. It's an expired Ebay sale item ad.
http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-POKEMON-CARDS-THAT-MY-KIDS-TRIED-TO-SNEAK-BY-ME_W0QQitemZ130144061675QQihZ003QQcategoryZ60238QQ

Nothing much else happening here. Just a lot of pooping and wee-weeing...life in the fast lane, baby!