Orphanage Emmanuel in Guaimaca, Honduras: La Tienda

This morning began with devotions and my 'cafecito', followed by updating my blog. Little did I know that I would use up my gigabytes today and I wouldn't be able to blog again until 3 days later. Alina got sick overnight, perhaps due to our walk back to the Toddler House in the rain last night. She ended up with a pretty high fever, headache, stomach ache and vomiting. We decided it would just be best for her to stay in the room and not go to church with us and we alternated ibuprofen and tylenol every 3 hours to try to get the fever to go down.

Bob and I headed to church this morning, checked on Alina afterward and then headed to the Toddler House to take my little Alejandra, Nikoll, Jeremias and Alina's little Chino to the 'tienda'. Unfortunately the toddlers had already headed out on a walk, but Ana let us know that they should be walking around by the tienda at some point before lunch. We waited and waited and waited, and finally they came. Since it was so close to lunch, we decided that rather than just a snack, we'd get these 4 a plate lunch and a snack to take with them. Each kiddo got 1/2 of a hamburger (they're pretty large) and some french fries, along with a soda and some chips. Alina stopped by for about 10 minutes, but her fever started to go up again so we let her know that she should rest. We walked the toddlers back to their house as the other toddlers were finishing up since it would be nap-time immediately afterward.

From left to right: Alina, Chino, Alejandra, Jeremias, LoriAnn, and Nikoll

Bob and I walked back to our room to check on Alina whose fever was still pretty high. We let her know that she should probably sit the day out, although this would be the only day that we'd be able to take children to the 'tienda'. We made sure she had plenty of liquid and took her next set of fever-reducing medicine and then headed out to get the 2 big boys - Christian and Luis David. We gave them each a soccer ball and they were both very excited to have it. Bob even kicked the ball back and forth with Christian for quite a bit before he got pretty sweaty and/or tired.

After walking them back to their house, we headed back again to check on Alina and to grab the gifts for the big girls. Bob reiterated that she should stay laying down, but as we were about to leave the big girls yard with Michell, Yensi and Coco...Alina came walking down the road. When she got to us, I said to her, "mule"...it took her about a 1/2-second and then she smiled and replied, "nag". Alina and I had just watched 'A League of Their Own' before coming down here if you didn't recognize the lines. We had a great time with the girls at the store and were there for quite some time before Alina started to heat up once again. We got her home around 5pm-ish and then I headed to the Toddler House for the remaining 2 hours to help Ana, Deisy and Karla with their math.