Happy birthday Ben!

We love you

Good news - Coffy found his parents!

i just got a confirmation from Yakini this morning, that Coffy found his parents and they are OK!
i don't have many details right now, i will know more later when she sends me his notes etc.

she said that Coffy's mom and dad were waiting in their back yard, living on a pack of crackers. they thought they were left there to die. they only survived because their roof wasn't concrete. when Coffy showed up his mom thought she was dreaming, and asked to smell him so she knows he was real... she couldn't believe that he came for them.

Please Help Coffy

there's still no word from Coffy's family in Haiti, but we hope that "no news is good news".

we set up a website and blog to help Coffy and Yakini raise funds. In the short term, the money will go to helping Coffy locate and transition his family. In the long term, they hope to start a non-profit organization to help Haiti.

if you're looking for places to put your money, please help Coffy. You will know that your money is going directly to helping a family in need.

Follow this link to the website,
or this link to donate (credit card - through PayPal)


...and you'll helping our family too -- Ella misses her teacher and so do all the other kids at daycare, and we want him to come back soon with good news.

Haiti update

We just got a message from Coffy, Ella's teacher. He left on a flight to Santo Domingo (in the Dominican Republic, on the same island as Haiti) and he's trying to reach Port au Prince by buss. We all keep our fingers crossed that he finds his parents and five brothers.

They are going to raise funds to help the people with needed supplies etc. -- we'll keep you updated.

links:
an ad that Coffy published in order to find the location of his parents. (No responses yet).

a newspaper article from the tribune. Yakini and Coffy were featured briefly, and the experience that helped him make the decision to go to Haiti. (last 3 paragraphs)

Continued...

I can only attach one pic at a time from ben's phone

Weekend

hanging out at bww after spending the afternoon at the aquarium. It's MLK day, no school. We're getting used to planning around school vacations :)

[sent from ben's phone]

Messy eater

every once in a while we let Ella "help" with the soft food. this is what happens.
(the brown stuff is prunes).
she expanded her menu to overlap with ours, and had some of our beef stew for dinner (i'm so flattered that she liked it!) and i just finished food-processing some of our chicken soup into a chicken puree for tonight.