A Good Weekend

Ok, this first picture has nothing to do with the weekend, but I've been meaning to post it mainly for my uncle since we've talked about the termites here before and he wanted to see a picture. So here you go, John, this is for you. :) We found this HUGE termite nest as they were digging up our pipes that were clogged. The termites are huge here. These are bigger than ants, maybe slightly smaller than the body of a bee. Yuck.

A lot of times we dread weekends. The kids seem to go crazy and the days are just long. You’ve been up for hours and tried everything you can think of to entertain them and then look at your watch and its 9 am. But this weekend was great and it reminds me that one day I won’t dread long periods alone with the kids. J They are growing up and are great boys. They play well together. I can see the light at the end of the little children tunnel. Kenan has used the same diaper for nighttime this whole week. He so rarely pees at night but it is really me who wants him in a diaper. Actually, he refuses to wear the diaper so he goes to sleep in underwear and I just put a diaper over that before I go to bed. I just don’t want to give them up yet because I don’t want to deal with a wet bed in the morning. But it hit me this week- I am almost down to just one kid in diapers. Wow. And in a year there will be no more pack-n-plays to lug around. The time is going by quickly. But I digress from my original purpose. So this weekend was special. Fun times being with the family. We had tacos for lunch on Saturday. We just received our “food container” which had various items from the States that we ordered. (the whole team can do this- people often get cereals, detergent, canned soups or whatever items you can’t get here or are ridiculously expensive. I never really paid attention until recently but laundry detergent here is around $30 for a box). I had gotten hard taco shells since Dawson fell in love with these while home last year. It is so fun to watch the boys eat them. I don’t know why it thrills my heart to see them eat, but it does. They went to town. Here’s a picture of them sharing the last taco (Dawson’s 5^th and Kenan’s 4^th).

Needless to say, they enjoyed themselves. Then last night we had (homemade) pizza which the boys also love. I feel like I’ve gotten the pattern down how to most quickly make it. We also got a bath tub last night! Woo hoo! We’ve been using buckets since we got here. I had asked about getting a tub but was told the plumbing would be too difficult. Well, recently we moved our washer to the back porch that has just been closed in. (love it, by the way, I can now wash anytime and leave out the clothes to dry which I never did before because the clothes were hanging outside so you couldn’t do a load at night or when it rained or was going to rain). Our friend, Saskia, had this stand up tub that has a drain and everything. It doesn’t have to be connected to anything, it just drains into the shower drain. She said she never used it so she let us have it. I’ve been meaning to pick it up for awhile and just haven’t. Well, we got it yesterday and the boys just loved it! So much fun!! Yeah for a tub! I feel like we are in America now. J So overall, it was a fantastic Saturday

Brett has been a little sick this weekend, though, nothing terrible but we decided not to do church this morning. I was able to go back to sleep once he got up (which is nice since we were up for over an hr in the night because the power went out- just ours, no one else’s so we had to work on that). Then I tried to be creative with the boys. Got out the paints and cut up some foam to make stamps. I always think the boys are going to like things like this but it always fails. It lasted a few minutes, though we got the story of Jonah painted. They just wanted to bubbles which were out for my second activity…which never happened. But alas, I tried. I try every once and awhile and then remember I have boys. But it was fun nonetheless.

As we were eating lunch, Kenan walked outside saying, “here is your cold water, Dawson.” This is how we found him. He enjoys being the big brother. J

Then they were off to play in the mud and in buckets (that we no longer need inside because we have a tub). They found a frog, chased him all over the yard and tormented him royally. They were throwing mud onto his face, trying to cover him in mud much like they spent Friday trying to cover up some crickets. Finally, I told Dawson to stop hurting him so he washed him off with the hose going full force. Sorry frog, I hope you are still living. But if not, at least you know you provided much joy to three little boys.

Now the boys are in rest time and I’m going to take a nap. Then we are off to the pool! Life is good. Thank you, Lord, for a great weekend!