say AHHHHH

JoJo had his first dentist appt. this weekend. Yes I know I left it a bit late...I guess I was just scared...but I wasn't doing him any favors so I quit being scared and took him. I didn't prep him much, just talked a little bit about it the fews days before. I even had a couple of bribes for him, which I knew I would have to use.

Our appt. was at 1130 the the New York Dental Clinic (no, it's not in New York, it's in Naha!!) lol
Place was quite nice, very new and very clean.....but.....we had to wait......and wait......and wait.....

 more waiting....

anyway, it's eventually our turn, we get halfway down the hall and JoJo stops and decides....UHHHHH no....I am NOT going down there....so we had to coax him a little....ok a lot......








here he is holding one of his bribes...he must be thinking OMG what am I doing here???

then he looks at me and is probably thinking...how COULD you? You're MY MOMMY!!! You're supposed to be nice and sweet and protect me and give me hugs and kisses and candy......









 I guess it wouldn't have been so bad if they didn't leave us in the room sooo long waiting for the dentist...but they did....which gave him more time to freak out of course....








you know he's thinking..WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?













OPEN WIDE!! Actually he was a good boy, but the lady couldn't get him to lay back in the chair, it freaked him OUT...we tried several times but no go.

I can't remember at what point I had to give him the second bribe, but they worked!  And here he is, one happy little boy with NO CAVITIES!! yaay.

 I have no idea how I am going to get him to go AGAIN, but I'll guess we'll cross that bridge......

i heart faces - photojournalism

Check out all the awesome entries at:

Elephants & Dinosaurs

homework - tracing his name

Elephants! The only time we let him shout when we

are playing - helps to get it out of his system

more elephants...

T-REX!!!

needless to say, Elephants and Dinosaurs are two of his most fav animals...then its probably, um, le me see, Lions, Rhinos, Cheetah, Birdies, Ironman (I know, not an animal, but on the list anyway) and most recently he has become more interested in playing with his cars, which I like because he has a million of them.

Happy Famiversary!

It's been exactly 2 years since Yohannes officially became our son. We watched the video again of our last day in Ethiopia, when he was in the arms of his birth mom. I am not sure what was going through his mind, and he looked at me as if he had lots of questions, but in his silence, his eyes said "I Love you Mommy" and that's all, and that was enough. I love showing him pictures of his birth mom, I never want him to forget who she is, or what she looks like, it's important to us. One day, we are going to see her again.


Oh and welcome to my new blog! hope you like it. It was time for a change. Out of Africa is still there and I will put a tab up for it soon, but in the meantime, this is the new blog! It's called JoJo Junkie, because that's me!!

I'm a JoJo Junkie!

August 2008

(16mths old)

August 2010

(3yrs 4mths old)