This is the video of Chaltu we received last summer.  It was taken in April, 2009 - she was 8 months old at the time.  Taken in Adama (Nazaret), Ethiopia at Joseph’s Children’s Home, the orphanage where Chaltu lived from her earliest days until being adopted at 18 months old.

In the video is Joy Casey, the director of YWAM’s Ethiopian adoption program.  She has been my lifeline through this whole process.  The gentleman in the video is Abebe, our representative in Ethiopia.

They were trying to get her birth certificate picture, and they wanted one of her not smiling... she didn’t cooperate.  She definitely has spunk!