Thank You Monica!

My normal routine for the morning is devotions with my 'cafecito'.  Once again I didn't have time to type yesterday's blog since I woke up very late (due to staying up late last night watching a movie with Alina and Doris calling).  We left almost right away for the Toddler House.  When we arrived, we cut the veggies and then found out that the team that's here grabbed all of the big girls with the exception of Deisy to do circle devotions.  In addition to that, Papi (David) came around and gave moon pies to each of the toddlers.  This does 2 things: 1) makes the toddlers hyper, and 2) fills them up a little bit so they're less likely to line up well for breakfast.  They hyper-ness was very difficult to manage since Deisy was the only one in charge (and then 3 of us volunteers).  Then when the team's devotions ran late, we needed to round up the toddlers, feed them, do dishes, clean the dining area, etc.  I had to make my way to school by 8:30am and as I was leaving the big girls were coming back, so I'm not sure how late they were to school?

The reading pull-out program that I am doing is going well.  Rachel stopped by after working with a couple of kids to see how it was going.  I'm hoping that she can continue doing this after I leave so that their reading isn't so sporadic with different materials being used each time.  When we got done reading, all 3 of us headed back to the Toddler House to serve lunch and help clean.  I helped walk the toddlers to school with Zelenes in the afternoon and then headed back to our room to book a hotel for our overnight stay in Tegucigalpa.

When I went back to the Toddler House to serve supper, there were some team members there and Alina led the toddlers in their 'prep' to get ready for supper and also in prayer!

Alina (yellow shirt) getting the toddlers ready for supper and leading them in prayer.

After supper and bathime, Alina and I headed to Ana Yanci's Medium Girls' House to measure this last house.  Monica (a girl I've known for the past few years) asked me what I was doing, then she wanted to be measured first.  I explained each measurement I was taking (bust, waist, hips, then belly button to knee for skirts), then I sent her to Alina who took a foot measurement for shoes.  Then she asked if she could do the measuring of all of the other girls!  As a mathematician who likes accuracy, I glanced at the measurements that she was taking sporadically while I wrote down what she was telling me.  She was doing great and we got through the entire house really quickly!  I was SO thankful to have her helping me.

When we got back to our room, we called back home to the States to chat with my kids who were with Bob.  Bob leaves tomorrow afternoon, so it would be the last night we could chat with everyone.  Although Jaden was sleeping, we talked with Noah, Kaylyn and Bob.  With 5 minutes left to go in our chat, the power went out.  I'm guessing that our cell phone tower went down too, because my phone cut out at exactly the same time as the power went out.  Power came back on around 1am.