Bob Arrives

Yesterday morning was the tarantula in the shower, this morning began with a millipede in the bathroom sink, ugh.  I took this bug outside as well on a sheet of paper and then went about my morning routine of showering, doing devotions with my 'cafecito', and updating my blog when I saw what I thought was a cockroach in front of our door to go outside.  As I got closer, I noticed it was a big grasshopper...so now I've been exposed to 4 different kinds of creatures in our room during our stay this year (aside from the normal mosquitoes, moths and daddy long-legs).

This morning's bug...a millipede

When Alina and I got to the Toddler House, Lori and her 2 daughters were already cutting vegetables.  We chatted with them as they were finishing up and then headed with the children to the sala before serving breakfast.  Since the lock on the toy room in the 'chosa' broke last night, Karla decided that we wouldn't go in there because it would be too difficult to try to keep the toddlers from pulling out ALL of the toys in the toy room.  Normally she gets a rubbermaid container out of toys for the children to play with (since there are numerous containers in the toy room) and then they play with that batch of toys for the morning.  The movie of choice this morning was 'The Croods'.  Thankfully it was something different than our typical Frozen movie or Barbie movie.  Most of the teen moms were cleaning the Toddler House as that is what's done on Saturday morning while the children are away.

When it was time for lunch, we served lunch, did dishes and then headed back to our room to clean and prepare for Bob's arrival.  We swept, cleaned the bathroom and put fresh sheets on the bed for Bob.  We rearranged a little bit of the furniture and got placed our luggage on the floor by our beds.  Then we headed back to the Toddler House where we saw that they were already up and out in the play yard in front of their house.  We weren't there for more than 10 minutes or so when we saw Norman drive by towards the Toddler House.  Knowing that Norman was picking up Bob, we figured that Bob was in the van too and Alina and I went running to greet him.  But it was just Norman looking for the keys to our room.  I gave him the keys and Alina asked if she could run to the house to say "hi" to Bob, so I gave her permission.

Turns out that Bob was already 1/2-way to the Toddler House by that point, so we chatted for about 10 minutes and then he decided to get his luggage in the room and eat a little bit.  By the time he made it back to the Toddler House, we had served supper and I was doing dishes.  We chatted again for a bit, but I told him to get some rest since he looked pretty beat.  We got the toddlers washed up and then took them out for a walk out in front of the orphanage.  I was on the swing with Jeremias for a while when it started to sprinkle.  All of the toddlers began sprinting back towards their house, but they only got to the Medium Girls' House before it became an all out down-pour with heavy wind.  The kids were shivering as we stood under the medium girls house waiting for the rain to break.  We were there for about 20 minutes.  Finally little Emmanuel asked if we could pray for the rain to stop...the faith of a child!  He led the prayer as all of the other kiddos repeated what he said.  Within a minute of his prayer ending, the rain lifted and we finished our walk home!

Alina and I decided to just help drop the toddlers off at their house and then head back home before another downpour began, and wouldn't you know as soon as we walked in our door...yep, it started up again and rained until around 2am.  We were so beat that we headed to bed almost immediately.