5 Years of Asher

I can't believe our youngest is 5 years old! We had such a great weekend with Darla, last year's tutor in Africa, who was visiting from PA. We did lots of fun stuff to celebrate Asher's birthday weekend such as playing on the beach, bowling, jumping on the inflatables at Kangaroo Jack's and a birthday party with the Conrod cousins.

Last Sunday

Mr. Handsome here was getting ready for church. He let me comb his hair and put gel in it. "No rubbing your head on the couch" was my rule, and he added to it, "or the wall" and was careful to keep his hair looking good until his special debut at the 9:30 service. ASBC was giving Bibles to all of the 1st graders this week in celebration of them learning to read.


It was hard to get a good pic, but you can see Pastor Roger presenting Bo with his first Bible.


After church we went with Grandpa & Grandma to a Japanese steakhouse where they grill the food at your table. The kids LOVED it and are coming up with ways that we can do this at home.



At the restaurant, Asher was showing off how he could eat his broccoli with chopsticks. This is one thing (the broccoli...and the chopsticks too I guess) that we don't often get in Cameroon and the kids are enjoying it, along with cauliflower which we have affectionately named "scared broccoli".

Fun With the Kids

Nandry set up shop right outside her bedroom selling tiny paper airplanes. So far she's made almost 10 cents. While Boaz is the one who loves to dump his piggy bank and count his money, Nandry's the one that's actually coming up with ways to make money.

Asher is growing quite a bit, especially his feet. He's wearing my shoes already! :) He has tons of energy and reminds me of Tigger -- always bouncing and boinging. Though, he does have the ability to concentrate on his Leapster if it's some kind of puzzle game.

Game Night!!

Notice David's intensity...that could mean only one thing: It was game night! Time for the rematch between the guys and gals in our small group.






Not sure if you can tell by the picture just how far ahead the RED team was (us gals!!!) but it was a significant win!






I think Katy was drawing Schrodt baby #4 in the crib. Do we know if it's a boy or girl yet?



Here's Katie (with an ie not a y) doing the cancan during our enthusiastic game of Guesstures. Mr. Sea Turtle will never be the same again.


Minerva, our gracious host, using the guy with the camera as her prop...her word was photographer.

We had such a good time and took so many great, yet incriminating, pictures that I decided to post the rest of them on facebook (I'll bring them next Sunday and pass them around for all you folks who aren't facebook-ers).