Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Oh The Weather Outside is ....

WONDERFUL!

My kids are wearing shorts and t-shirts!

Rub It In!

Rub It In!

Rub It In!

(To the tune of Let It Snow)

We are eating our second batch of Christmas Cookies already.
Please feel free to share your Christmas stories with us!
If we get homesick, we will deal with it!
But with Nanna and Papa visiting, Christmas will be fun!



Conference

Over Thanksgiving Weekend, we drove an hour away to Kijabe where RVA is located. We spent from Thursday afternoon to Tuesday morning at our annual AIM Kenya Spiritual Life Conference. It was Great!

We stayed in a dorm and had 3 dorm rooms and a bathroom to ourselves. The dorm parents where wonderful. All the boarding school kids are on Christmas break so the dorm was empty except the family that lives there. An answer to prayer to have Seth in his own room at night.

We ate in the cafeteria 3 times a day. Very good food, no cooking for me or dishes.

We had a speaker from the UK who was very good. The theme for the week was ‘Guarding the Truth’. Very pertinent. I came away refreshed and ready to persevere some more. I managed to make it to every session and Ryan only missed once.

The kids did VBS with a Narnia theme. Caleb loved it! Levi had a class for his age group. Towards the end, he was hesitant to go but his teacher said he was in the 99th percentile of everything. I was very proud. Seth didn’t like his nursery but managed. There was consistently 2 Kikuyu mama’s for every session (morning and evening). And even if he wasn’t crazy about it, they got to know him. He took naps in a separate room full of pack and plays. Took his bottle for them. They got to know when he was tired when he puts his hands behind his head. And they held him most of the time. Occasionally they would join Levi’s classroom and he plaid with duplos. I was thrilled that he was over his stranger anxiety enough to stay in nursery.

I went to conference with low expectations (having preschoolers does that to moms) and was pleasantly surprised and blessed. The kids did great, no one got sick. We were exhausted but had lots of family time every afternoon. Ryan and I got to hear God’s Word.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Cool Caleb

Caleb recently figured out the remote control for the TV. It's tempting to teach him how to work the VCR. Especially when we (the parents) wish to sleep in on Saturdays. He could start a movie and get cereal for him and Levi. Maybe Seth could talk for a while in his crib and we can sleep in til 7 am. That's all we want, to sleep in til 7 am. But the VCR is out of reach, so no go. Posted by Picasa