Moving.....

As some of you may know, we have made the decision to move from our present location. I've been looking all over the city for a new flat for our family. We have chosen a new area called Helliopolis for our family. The past couple of weeks I've been looking for flats in this area. We will keep everyone up to date on our new home and location.

Alia walks

This is an older video shot but I thought it was cute and I wanted to try out video on our blog.

First sighting of Baby Inman

Hello, here is a first sighting of baby Inman number three! Let us know what you think.....I mean is it a boy or a girl???????

What do you think????

We are expecting our third child!!! We are so excited of this wonderful blessing! Jill is due the first of April. We thought it would be fun for everyone to get involved the next few months by voting for what you think it is; boy or girl?? We have chosen not to find out until the little one is born. To the right, you'll find a poll to vote. So everyone, tell us what you think??? Who know maybe there will be a reward for those who answer correctly......don't get your hopes up.

First Week of School

As most of you know, we decided to home school Lydia. This week completed the first three days for her. We were able to rent a small flat and we spent a couple of days setting it up. Lydia started school on Tuesday. Our schedule for her is about two hours per day, five days a week. Three days out of the week we have an Egyptian friend who is coming to teach her Arabic for a half an hour. After the first day, she came home pretty tired and while she was watching cartoons she just started crying and told me she can't write her name very well. Poor thing. I think we have a little perfectionist on our hands. The second day, Jill said they were coming home and Lydia said, "Mommy my head hurts!" Jill is doing a great job and after three days Lydia is enjoying it.



Setting up the classroom


Lydia's first day


Jill and Lydia walk about 10 minutes every morning to school. Lydia was a little nervous the first day. :)


Mommy and Lydia at school!

What's the weather like there?????

One of the most asked questions while we were in the states was "what's the weather like?" Well, now you can keep up to date with the weather for Cairo. However, please be aware that in the hot summer the temperature is actually hotter than what is shown on the internet. I don't know the answer to why this is so. Maybe some of you do! Anyway, if you look in our links to the right I've added a link to a great website that shows the weather for Cairo.

MEET SCOOTER

......or is it snowball or just plain "kitty" (Lydia can't make up her mind). When we got back to Egypt Lydia kept asking for a kitty and we finally caved. So far she seems to be a very good kitten. We've had her for two days now and every night she's slept with Lydia and she sits right beside Lydia while watching cartoons. The good thing for us is that she knows how to use the litter box well!

102 degrees here...how 'bout you?

Hi everyone!! Lydia and Alia here. We usually don't write but Mama and Daddy are unpacking all our clothes while we play in the pool. It's hot here....but it's a dry heat...ha ha! The weather here is quite a bit different than at Grandma and Grandpa's house in America. I hope you're keeping cool too.

Benadryl is our friend

After a week long packing frenzy, sad good byes to family, and a gruelling 29 hours of travel we have made it to our home in Egypt. We left from Jill's parents house around 1:30 pm Saturday and arrived in Egypt at 2:30 am Monday morning. Egypt is eight hours ahead of Central time U.S. The girls did pretty good. We gave them both a little Benadryl and they were out most of the way on both flights. Lydia was a little upset because she was so excited that they were going to show "Over the Hedge" on the plane and then she missed it because she was sleeping. Oh well!!! Anyway, we are all doing well....just getting back on schedule through some jet lag. It feels good to be back. We are just shocked our time in the states went so fast!!

We have a 5 year old???!!!???

It's hard to believe that five years ago we gave birth to our first child. I look at our little girl and can't imagine that she was a little baby. She's so grown up! She can even write her name now. Jill and I used to say things like, "I can see us having a baby or toddler but not a school aged child". Well, now Lydia will be starting kindergarten and she'll soon be learning to read. How exciting! We decided to celebrate her birthday early so that most of the family could wish her happy birthday. We actually had two parties. One in Sedalia with my family and one in St. Louis with Jill's family.

We had a wonderful time at Partitown in Sedalia a couple of week ago.

Lydia got to go to Chuck E. Cheeze's in St. Louis for the first time.