Sunday, May 10 Mother's Day

The girls (with some help from daddy) brought me breakfast in bed and delivered all their "mom" projects from school. It was so early though I wasn't really ready to wake up! I went back to sleep for a while and then got up to enjoy my family. And how beautiful and fun they truly are. I feel so lucky to have them and to have had all this extra time with them this year.

Aeden needed a haircut again, so we headed down to the salon (the one for boys though, not the one I went to yesterday). He didn't want to sit down in the chair, but the barber sat with him on his lap and calmed him down, gave him a lollipop, and just sat with him for a while and watched cartoons (Star Wars in Turkish, Maren observed). It was really nice. Aeden was so good, he got all the treatments this time and a very nice trim; I'm surprised he didn't get an ear and nose wax like the other man that was there! This time he got green and blue sprayed in his hair and it was pretty racy.

We had lunch today with Daniel and met some other Fulbrighters (who we'll be seeing again in Antalya in just a few short days!): Zoe (living in Trabzon this year), Jana (living in a rural town outside Ankara), and Sarah (not a Fulbrighter, but living here in Ankara this year--but from Hendersonville, North Carolina!! For those not familiar with NC geography, that is literally just down the road from our college, Warren Wilson, and she went to Univeristy of North Carolina at Asheville). We ate in the atrium at Karum and it was very nice. Aeden and Maren spent most of the time watching the fish and turtles in the fountain.







The turtles made Lacey pretty sad...Yertle died a few days ago. He never did eat very well, and I don't think he ever adjusted to living with us.

We ran into friends of Daniel's on the walk to the restaurant, and afterward when we were walking Tunali we ran into a group of Brian's students. You wouldn't think there were 5 million people in Ankara the way we always run into people we know when we go out.

Grandma Teri chatted with us online, too, so we could wish her a happy mother's day and get some updates on life in Washington. We hear that the beach cabin has hot water and we're so ready to try it out this summer!