(Amharic for "family")

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

The Windy (& Snowy) City

This past weekend Mehandis had his first taste, touch and eyelashes full of snow! Michael, Mehandis and I took the train down to Chicago to visit my parents' new home. During our visit it snowed several inches, but that didn't keep us from going out on at least one outing. We walked to an Italian restaurant in the wintery weather. Mehandis was so quiet and observant when out in the falling snow. Please no comments from random readers about how we could take a child under the age of one into the blustery weather, note how he is wearing his mittens in the picture above (inside joke from the day before).
Here is the "First Family", as my parents describe it, in front of their new home. It is a beautiful condo downtown perfectly situated by a lovely park and close to the fabulous Michigan Avenue shopping. Next time we will venture further out to appreciate these things!
Here are my parents with their "favorite" grandson. Did I mention to you before that I am an only child?
Mehandis loved all of the mirrors that were around their home. The kitchen and dining room especially are suited for self-gazing :)

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