This morning when I opened the door of our room, we were surrounded by fog. Now honestly, I can say that I am not sure if it's fog or if we are in a low lying cloud, because we are up in the mountains and I have seen clouds so low on nearby mountains that you cannot see the top of them. Anyway, it was beautiful today. April and her 3 kiddos (Zoey, Zayden and Micah) are leaving this morning at 8am, so they headed to the baby house to get some pictures before taking off. I didn't see them after that, so it's a good thing we had said goodbye last night. Kaylyn and Zoey exchanged numbers so they could keep in contact.
The breakfast this morning was arroz con leche and generally Saturdays are the porridge type breakfast made of that flour mixture I had mentioned back on Wednesday (Jaden's least favorite breakfast). He was so relieved to know he would not have this breakfast again during this trip.
Kaylyn and I headed to the Chosa to watch the kiddos. Since April had left, this is the first day we were in here alone with Eva watching the toddlers. The small girls stayed in their house, so the amount of toddlers was manageable. Although this is the last "full" morning for me to watch the toddlers (since I have to teach on Monday and will only have half a morning with them), Kaylyn will have one more full morning on Monday. She has been coughing a lot lately and has been taking the DayQuil and NyQuil that I had purchased, so I have to try to remember next time to pack cough drops. I feel like she has been sick down here more than she has been healthy...but I am just glad she has a good attitude about it, and the serving she is doing while here. She even asked to braid my hair today and made 2 separate braids that she said formed a heart.
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Brithany |
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Clara and Brithany |
After being at the Chosa for an hour or hour and a half, LaShawn called for the toddlers to head up to the clinic to get their heights and weights taken, so Graciela (who is in charge of the Toddler House), Eva, Kaylyn and I got them all ready and walked them up to the clinic. The nurse from town pulled the scale and the height measuring tool out to the porch out front of the clinic. While we were there, Clara (Kaylyn's favorite) decided to close the clinic door and it locked in the process. Both sets of keys were in the Clinic, so it took some finagling (what we would call breaking and entering) to get the door open.
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Camila getting her height measured |
When we walked back towards the Toddler House, Graciela said we were going to let the toddlers play in the park. When she told the toddlers that, every one of them let go of our hands took off running towards the park, obviously excited because this is only the 2nd time in the nearly 5 weeks we have been here that they have gotten to play in the park. About an hour before we needed to head to the Comedor for lunch, Graciela decided to turn the water on at the park's "waterpark". The kids were SO excited!!! They stripped down to just their underwear and for about 30-45min got to play under all the streams of water.
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Moises enjoying the sprinkles |
We headed to the Comedor with the toddlers and found that there was a HAND-MADE tortilla at each place setting. This excited me so much because I hadn't had one of these since last year! Alina had learned to make them years ago, I wonder if she still remembers how. When we walked back to our room, we noticed that Cristian was up there with his gator and crew. They were moving Karen and her 2 daughters (Dara and Nachita) out from the room next to us and into Mirna's house. So we will no longer have neighbors for the last few nights here. Once they were gone, we swept out the kitchen well, and I got ahead on some of my lesson for Monday.
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Kaylyn coming into the Comedor with Clara, Camila and Natali |
We headed back to the Toddler House at 3pm and gave Graciela most of my clothes that I was leaving behind. There are still a couple of shirts and pants that I need to wear before taking off, but as soon as I do and I get them washed, they will stay down here too. Generally all of my kids' things stay down here each year as it will not fit them the following summer because they are still growing. This year, when it came to my things, there are more things staying here than heading back as well. When I gave it to Graciela, she said that she would make sure it got divided up where the necessity was...between her, Eva, Lourdes, Mirna, Pamela, or whoever else might need it.
We walked with the toddlers to the Comedor for supper (and once again there was a hand-made tortilla at our place setting), and then the toddlers headed to the Cancha (playground outside the school) to play some soccer and on the playground equipment. We used this time to start getting more things together that was going to stay behind.
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All meals are covered to protect them from insects |
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Medium Boys |
This evening's movie was Kaylyn's choice: Love Hard. Jaden said when it was all over that he no longer wanted to watch rom-coms...so guessing that it might end up being a Mission Impossible night for the last two nights we are here.