Tessa turned 3 on March 18th. On Good Friday, we celebrated her birthday with our neighbor Micaiah who also turned 3 that day. We had 21 kids and 21 adults here at our house for the swimming party and NO WATER! That's right folks; the water was off till Tuesday night. That's 5 dry days with guests for dinner on Easter. Fortunately we have external tanks we used for the baby pools and filled buckets of rain water for bathing, toilets, and dishes. Whew! In addition to water issues, the kumbi-kumbi hit the night before the party. These are bugs attracted to light who shed their wings and crawl under the door leaving behind them masses of wings. The kids were in and out of the pools and every foot dragged wings back into the pool with them, so it was quite a mess, but they didn't care and the adults pretended they didn't either.
Here's the classic screaming kid photo - Josiah was then replaced by his baby brother who also cried for later photos. We're so blessed to have so many missionary kids in our community - it's amazing really. All are 7 and under, but most are younger than 4. Anybody out there want to come over and help us teach them? Please, please?! Seriously, we would love to know if God puts it on your heart to share this opportunity with someone who loves kids and wants to come to Africa for a while. Please pray for a short or long-term teacher for our kids. We want to start a co-op school soon, and just look at all these precious faces waiting to learn fractions!!
Tessa turned 3 on March 18th. On Good Friday, we celebrated her birthday with our neighbor Micaiah who also turned 3 that day. We had 21 kids and 21 adults here at our house for the swimming party and NO WATER! That's right folks; the water was off till Tuesday night. That's 5 dry days with guests for dinner on Easter. Fortunately we have external tanks we used for the baby pools and filled buckets of rain water for bathing, toilets, and dishes. Whew! In addition to water issues, the kumbi-kumbi hit the night before the party. These are bugs attracted to light who shed their wings and crawl under the door leaving behind them masses of wings. The kids were in and out of the pools and every foot dragged wings back into the pool with them, so it was quite a mess, but they didn't care and the adults pretended they didn't either. 
Here's the classic screaming kid photo - Josiah was then replaced by his baby brother who also cried for later photos. We're so blessed to have so many missionary kids in our community - it's amazing really. All are 7 and under, but most are younger than 4. Anybody out there want to come over and help us teach them? Please, please?! Seriously, we would love to know if God puts it on your heart to share this opportunity with someone who loves kids and wants to come to Africa for a while. Please pray for a short or long-term teacher for our kids. We want to start a co-op school soon, and just look at all these precious faces waiting to learn fractions!!
2 comments:
Happy Birthday, Tessa!
I can't believe Tessa is 3! Wow, that is a lot of kids to teach fractions to.... I'll ask J if he's up to the challenge ;)
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