Movie Night with the Medium Boys

Since today is Friday, it began with BIG circle where all of the children gather into a circle for morning devotions slightly in front of our room (more in front of the medium girls house which is right next to us).  Since my stomach was still very weak from being super sick yesterday, I just sat on the porch steps outside our room while Alina and Noah went to participate with the children.

I was sweating all morning, which was a good sign because yesterday while my body had the fever all day I wasn't sweating at all.  I was still hot, but found out later that it wasn't just me...it was actually a hot day outside.  I stayed in all morning and Noah stayed with me (again), although he was getting pretty restless today with having to be in and not moving about with the children.  I decided to try to walk with him down to the 'comedor' so that he could eat lunch with the children like he normally does, but by the time we got down there (I had to walk extremely slow), there was no more to eat.  We chatted with a few children, but I felt my temperature rise again, so we headed back to our room.  I sent Noah with some money to the tienda to get lunch for the both of us.  He came back extremely happy that they had his 'favorite' meal...tostadas - which are toasted tortillas with a combination of warm chicken, lettuce, tomatoes and thousand island dressing on top.  They were delicious!

Noah giving the 'thumbs up' on his tostadas

After we ate, I rested for about an hour and then decided I had to try to get out and get some fresh air and sun.  I saw that the medium boys were in the yard, so Noah and I walked down there.  I had a huge bottle of water, of course.  On the way down to the yard, Lourdes (Wade's wife) was walking with her children and stopped me to check on me.  I've only been sick a day, but I guess word travels fast!  She reminded me that they have the clinic if I'm sick, so I let her know that in the States they recommend waiting a fever out 24 hours to see if it drops, and since I was actually feeling better today than yesterday, I figured I'd see if it was actually going away.  I thanked her for being concerned because that truly means a lot!  So many of the children throughout the rest of the day too had asked if I was feeling better.

Noah played in the yard with the medium boys while I sat in the shade and chatted with the older children (teenagers) that were in charge.  They had 'ensenanza' (afternoon devotions) right there in the yard before heading to supper.  Noah ate supper with the boys this time and Miguel and Rudy checked with Santos (the man who is in charge of the medium boys house) to see if they could have movie night with us tonight.  Santos said the medium boys were behaved all week - perhaps because they were told that we had movies - so it would be fine.  They told us that the boys were going to finish supper quickly and run home to shower and we could come around 4:25pm to have movie night.

When I headed to the house, Noah stopped by Darryl who was assembling his saxophone.  He asked Darryl a few questions and said he was going to hang out there for one song.  Because I was moving so slowly, I knew that Noah would be able to catch up to me.  I could hear Darryl play almost all the way to the medium boys house.  What a treat for Noah who was right in front of him!

When we got to the medium boys house, all of the boys were anxiously awaiting us at their bedroom doors.  As soon as we got there, Santos sent the boys into the rec room to watch the movie.  They decided on Batman vs. Superman...and we had a blast!  It was all in Spanish, so I'm sure Noah will want to watch the movie with his dad again (but this time in English) when we get back home.

When we got back to our room, Alina had some exciting news from the baby house...she got to see a baby take her first steps today!  So all in all, it was a good day for each of us.