All of the Girls are Now Measured!

This morning began with going to the medium boys house (as usual) for circle and then heading with them to breakfast.  We spent the morning reading with the 2 boys and the 2 girls - Noah works with the 2 boys and while the girls are reading, Alina and Noah are reading books in English.

Over lunch I finally measured the last 3 of the girls here at Orphanage Emmanuel.  I'm so excited about having them finished.  We only have 2 houses left to measure: the grandecitos (middle-school aged boys) and the grandes (high-school aged boys).  Alina will not be able to help with those, so Noah has been getting some practice at measuring feet for shoe sizes.

This afternoon we spent a couple of hours washing, drying and folding the bedding from the other 2 hotel rooms since the 11 girls/ladies that had stayed in those room had left this morning.  I believe the rooms are supposed to fill up by the weekend (one family is coming tomorrow).  Since the ladies had given me the keys to turn over to Andi, when we finished 1/2 of the laundry, we put it into a room that was still unlocked (the lock wasn't working).  Andi stopped by later in the evening with multiple keys to try to lock it.

We went to the comedor (dining hall) to meet up with the children for supper and then Noah and I walked to the grandecitos house to try to get as many of those boys measured as we could, while Alina went home to try her hand at making grilled cheese sandwiches for us.  We got all but about 10 boys measured and are committed to heading to the comedor for breakfast tomorrow to get them finished, which would only leave us with one house to go!

After supper, we decided to call it a night.  It's been a lot of work and a lot of walking around tracking people down when we are measuring.  I purchased a Fitbit back in May for mother's day and I've definitely been getting more steps in down here than ever before, on a daily basis!  The 3 of us have lost a bit of weight in only a week and 1/2 down here.  I don't mind, but I'll have to make sure to buy extra groceries tomorrow for Alina and Noah.