Well, our world has been turned upside down by (in our non-biased opinion) the cutest and sweetest baby girl... And moving to the other side of the world. But first, meet our little Joy Mary Kasali.
After Joy was born... Things were a pretty busy as we were getting closer to wrapping up this time at UCBC and heading on to graduate school for Noe...
We left Beni on July 23rd, and spent over 2 weeks in Kinshasa.
We left Kinshasa on August 9th - and arrived in Chicago on the 10th.
We've been in the States for a month now!
We've been in Wheaton for about three weeks.
Noe started classes on August 28th - and it has been nonstop reading!
Joy has adjusted fantastically.
Her parents... Well, we could use a little more sleep but we love all of her little smiles and sounds... She's starting to laugh and she lets us know when she misses us!
We wanted to share some photos of Joy and our journey to get here... It's in no way complete. It'd be better if you let us print them, put them in an album and then come over for some tea and we'll tell you all about it!
But for now:
These had been in order when we uploaded them... Why they aren't now...? Ah.
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| August 7th - Kinshasa, DRC |
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| August 8th - Kinshasa |
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| August 9th - with the family who hosted us in Kinshasa! |
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| August 9th or 10th - Brussels! |
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| Aug 10th - Becky found us in CHICAGO! |
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| August 10th :) |
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| August 10th - Joy's first experience with a car seat... |
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| Aug 10th - not too bad at first... |
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| Aug 10th - we made it! :) |
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| Aug 10th - Not liking the car seat, and she's hated it since we arrived! |
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| Aug 10th - meeting cousin Alexandria |
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| Aug 11th - With her grandparents, yay!! |
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| Aug 11th - family time! |
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| Aug 12th - wearing pink! |
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| August 14th |
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| Aug 14th |
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| May 27th - one day old |
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| June 18th |
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| June 22nd |
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| June 28th |
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| July 7th - trying to take her passport photo... |
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| It was fun... |
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| But not easy! |
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| July 6th - got her official birth certificate! |
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| July 7th |
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| July 7th |
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| July 8th - learning to laugh! |
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| July 10th - more practice |
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| July 11th - round two of passport photo attempts! |
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| Look straight! |
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| And AT the camera, please! :) |
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| July 14th - baby dedication at our church |
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| After the dedication service... |
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| With Daddy! |
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| July 19th - pretty new dress! |
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| July 23rd - leaving Beni |
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| August 6th - Kinshasa, by the Congo River |
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| Aug 6th |
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| Aug 6th |
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| June 10th |
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| June 15th - trying to get her to sleep |
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| June 16th - Father's Day |
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| July 26th - Kinshasa |
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| July 27th - studying with Daddy, Kinshasa |
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| July 28th - breakfast, Kinshasa |
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| July 30th - Making sure her thumb stays in her mouth! |
