It is Jaden's Turn

    This morning I went to the Comedor with Jaden for breakfast.  Papi (David) was there walking around and when he came by, he asked me why I didn't have a bowl of breakfast, so I let him know, with a chuckle, that if I had 3 meals a day down here I would most likely gain weight...trying to slim down!

   When we got to the Toddler House, we found out that Graciela was sick today, so the big girls in charge didn't have the keys to get into the Chosa, meaning we got to spend the morning in the Sala (living/family room) of the Toddler House.  There is more of a variety of movies in this room, although the ventilation is not as good as in the Chosa and there are really no toys...so eventually you could tell that the toddlers were getting sick of being in there.  Zoey tried her first paleta today, and I also found out when I offered Kaylyn one, that she had never tried one before either.  Both said they were "interesting" (chili coated mango suckers).

Anderson looking at Kaylyn's paleta

   Jaden was weed whacking with Moncho and his crew today, so I gave Moncho 8 paletas for the guys to enjoy on their next break.  In the afternoon, Jaden headed with Micah out to the front playground, called the Area Verde, to play with the small boys.

Jaden Weed Whacking

   For lunch, April joined us in the Comedor to see what all of that food was about.  She heads home on Saturday with her 3 kids, but is planning to come back as a long-term volunteer in mid-September.  We will see what God has in store for her as she goes through that transition.  The most reluctant to come back from her family was Zoey, but even she seems to be warming up to it more and more each day.

   So we found out that Jaden is now the one to come back "sick".  He officially has ringworm.  I don't know much about that, so will be Googling it, but I guess it is pretty common down here when you work on the farm.  Zayden had it as well when we got here.  Jaden has 3 circles right now where you can see it, one on his knee, one on his arm and the other on his cheek.  LaShawn gave him some cream that he is supposed to apply 3 times a day until it is gone.  She also told us that sunscreen lotion will also help get the skin the proper nutrients it needs to help in the healing process as well...so we will have to keep an eye on this.

   So I had bought a phone/data package that SAID it was supposed to be 30G or 15 days, whichever came first, and so at the end of 15 days I bought another package.  But I had gotten a message about a week ago saying my 30G got used up and the next 30G package that I had bought was now beginning.  This confused me a little, but now we have way more data than we need.  So I decided that starting tonight, we would have a movie night every night we are here until it is time to leave on Tuesday.  Tonight's movies was called "Half Brothers" and was entertaining enough to keep us up until about 8pm when we generally head to sleep anyway.