stares

at the beginning i noticed the stares that i get on a regular basis....then as time went by i kind of got used to them, not really noticing kind of forgetting that i am often one of the only white people in sight..

until i went to the public hospital with annabelle and solomon today to get immunizations and then i realized:

yes i really was the ONLY white person in the entire hospital.

and yes i was a mzungu holding a kenyan baby.

hence the BLATANT stares. like mouths hanging open, staring over their shoulders type of stares. auntie jully and i had quite a lot of fun with it :)

meanwhile: my baby is turning dark! and i love it!

when she was first born she was light and had REALLY dark ears. (note ears/face differences)

everyone said that means that she will change and become much darker...and indeed it's true. behold my black beautiful baby. (this pic is at 6:30am after a long night...both of us clearly WIDE awake. aka: she was. i was not)