Adjusting

The kids are adjusting well to life here. Some may disagree, but their quirkiness from living in another culture is starting to wear off. They understand now that the answer "monkey" to the question "what's your favorite pet?" is going to get strange looks unless they explain that they've lived in Africa. They are gaining more vocabulary (TRX, Shady Maple, Amish, VBS, speed limit, McDonald's, play land, Teletubbies, microwave, crushed ice, Walmart and soft serve ice cream...) and becoming accustomed to the things they are seeing. Asher, a few weeks ago, was curious why there were so many spaceships in Lancaster County, PA. It took us a while to figure out what he was talking about. Who knew those Amish folks were ahead of us with technology?

I found this You Tube video about one of the many problems found in Cameroon, especially out our direction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4E0ih5Zro

Watch part 2 & 3 too.

"Where are you going, bumble bottom?"

...Is what the wolf said to Little "light green" Riding Hood in the mad-lib that Nandry and I did today! I can hardly believe that we have an 8 year old daughter...wow! She's so beautiful and growing up so fast. Today we had some Mom/Daughter time and Nandry blew me away with some of her insightfulness. First, she told me, "Mom, sometimes I just don't think Daddy understands like you do, you know, him being a boy and all." And then a little later she said, "It's like I'm just growing up so fast and becoming an adult already." Ever since we left Cameroon less than 2 months ago, Nandry has matured about 2 years!

Here's another picture of my 8 year old princess, and her little brothers.

Getting down to business

We've been having a whole bunch of fun for the past month, resting, vacationing and preparing for the whirl wind of a year that is to come. Now it's time to get down to business. We are working this week on presentations and planning for visiting churches and even a mission trip!

Here are some pictures from our last 2 weeks of travelling...can you guess where some of these were taken?