There were a couple of exciting things that we had happen today, so I'll start at the beginning. When we were getting ready to leave our room, Alina had opened her backpack and then she left it open as we started to head out the door. Remembering what Bob had said about airport security finding a tarantula in Travis' backpack, I reminded Alina that MAYBE she'd like to close her backpack, so she went back to close it. I told her that she should've read the book "There's a Tarantula in My Purse" that I had bought for her last year from a garage sale. Her reply was, "STOP!!!" Well, it was interesting that we had that conversation just as we were leaving, because as we stopped by our kitchen to get water before heading to the Toddler House, this was the sight to the entrance of the kitchen...
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| Do you see the black spot almost as big as the doorknob off to the right of the picture? |
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| Here's a close-up of that black spot |
It was so exciting! We had JUST been talking about tarantulas prior to leaving our room for the kitchen. And Alina's reply was precious, "It's a good thing they don't jump," she said casually. It's like after seeing 2 (although I've seen 3) live ones this year, she's used to them now.
Our morning at the Toddler House was the same routine in terms of cutting veggies, feeding the kiddos and breakfast. When we got to the pavilion, Glinda checked Alina for lice and found about 20 knits, which means she recently had (most likely just 1) lice on her head. We'll have Glinda check again tomorrow, just in case. I was lice-free! When Glinda was finished checking me, she put my hair up into a really nice french braid.
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| LoriAnn and Nikoll |
During our break between 12:00 and 2pm, we took items that we no longer needed to the Volunteer House, we took my bigger suitcase to Laurie since they had a suitcase whose wheel broke in transit here, gave out suckers and stickers to groups of children and out at school and folded the remaining laundry that we were going to give away. We also got Alina's suitcase started. Tomorrow we should have minimal work in terms of packing up.
I left the Toddler House a bit early after supper because I wanted to catch up with Trey. On Sunday I had mentioned to Lydia that I was going to show the 'God's not Dead' movie to the teen moms in the Toddler House. She quickly grabbed Wade and asked him if we could do a movie night at the church to show the movie, and he said we could do it Tuesday (today). I've been doing a lot of worrying because with the teen moms I had just streamed the movie from Netflix, so we had to wait a few times for the movie to buffer. Internet is so sketchy here that by night time, it barely if at all works. Trey headed into town today for a few items and found the movie in town at the movie store. I had given him money to purchase it. The movie made a BIG impression on the kids...so much so that the Big Girls wanted me to walk them back to their houses so they could share which part(s) of the movie made the most impression on them. After I got back to my room and changed into my pajamas, I heard my name being called from outside the door. I opened the door and saw Vero Castro (asst. principal of the school) on her bike. She was not able to attend the movie because she had to stay back with the smaller girls in her house...but she heard from the big girls in her house how good the movie was and she wanted to know if she could borrow it from me for the night since I'd be leaving on Thursday. I told her that the movie would be staying down here with Trey, so she could get it from him any time. I am so excited that the kids had this opportunity to watch the movie together and that they liked it so much that the word spread.
When I called home last night to chat with Bob about contacting him tomorrow (the night before I leave), I discovered he watched the movie too...that was the ultimate ending to an already great day!!!
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