You talkin' to me?

Meet Asher. This is his snorting face, it’s one of his favorite responses when he’s asked a question. Here’s what usually happens. Someone (usually a Cameroonian) will come up to him and in French say, “Hello baby, shake my hand.” Asher gives them a blank look for about 10 seconds, then snorts like a pig, and walks away. No one yet, fortunately, has said that he’s rude…they just laugh. I’m trying to figure out if it’s just Asher’s way of saying, “I don’t know you so therefore I’m not going to talk to you.”

Asher is our puzzle man. When he’s not running around outside with the others, you can be sure to find him quietly on the floor of his room putting his favorite puzzle together for the 100th time. He’s good at seeing little details and fitting them together.

All of our kids bring us flowers that they pick out of our garden, our neighbor’s garden, the orchard and the forest, but of the 3 kids, Asher is the one that brings me flowers constantly and is very bothered if I don’t put them in water RIGHT AWAY. He loves to smell them all too and his “smelling” face is almost the same as his snorting face (see above).

And here’s a final picture of Asher just hanging out in a tree with his infamously infectious grin.