First Missing Tooth!

Boaz finally lost his first tooth! He's been waiting for this ever since the tooth fairy left money under Nandry's pillow during the last couple of years. Boaz has quite a thing for cash, especially free cash that he finds on the ground or UNDER HIS PILLOW!!! And, yes, the tooth fairy does come to Cameroon and leaves 500cfa for the first tooth (about a dollar).
The scab next to his mouth is from when Asher bumped the burning stick that Boaz was blowing on, right into his face. The kids are LOVING fire. They start at least one a day under the cooking shelter and now that we got them to stop throwing leaves on their fire, they are roasting their own plantains for a yummy snack.

Where to start...

I need to blog about this first month we've been back in Cameroon, but where do I start? Wayward washing machines, tumbling towers, badly behaved batteries, merciless mold and mildew, might-have-been malaria, dreadful doggie pooh, relentless rainy season, lacking language skills, scary surgeries back home... (Karen, we are trying to beat Jenn for the Ashia award).
Thought this was cute. Nandry wanted to extend friendship to the girls of the neighborhood so she got our her coloring books and crayons, locked the rough little boys out of the veranda and had a good time. The baby in the green shirt is baby Nathan, the only boy allowed in because he was being watched by his older sister. He was terrified of us when we first got here but is slowly warming up to our presence.