August 17th - Measuring Non-School Children is Almost Done

This morning, Leigh & I headed to Papi & Wade's large boys circle (devotional time) to measure the farm/working boys. I was scheduled from 6:30am - 12:30pm at the clinic, but had arranged for Andrés to cover me from about 6:15 until we were done with measurements (ended up being about 7:00 or so). I think that we have now pretty much sized all of the children here at Emmanuel who are not in school - so that when the group comes this Thursday, they can focus on the school children (which will be pretty easy for them, as the teachers just pull them from class and line them up).

I've heard that it's been in the 70s back in Wisconsin - something for me to look forward to! Down here today, it was cool enough to wear pants all day - which I don't think I've had the chance yet to do in the 3 years I've been here. When Leigh went to the clinic at 3pm to relieve Brittany, the door was locked, the lights off, and all was locked up. Kevin (our last chicken pox child) was GONE!!! She came back & we celebrated...for an entire hour & 1/2 - until we got the call that another girl was admitted for chicken pox, meaning I got to spend the night.

Up until this point, we have had children from the little boys house and the medium girls house. This girl was from the little girls house, her name is Yolisa and she is in Primero A at school - meaning she was in Kevin's class. I have a feeling we'll be seeing more children as the week goes on - the chicken pox strikes again.