Happy Father's Day

   After my typical morning routine (waking, showering, drinking my proffee and writing yesterday's blog), I messaged Kaylyn letting her know that I wanted to do a videochat with the family back home and while Bob opened his Father's Day gift(s) from me.  Kaylyn was scheduled to work both jobs today (Tom's and Melting Pot) and it sounded like Jaden was starting a job at Tom's today too and Kaylyn was training him.  

   Olivia and Ana sang during the offering while Juan Carlos kept a beat on a drum that looks like a simple box (not sure what that is called as I am not a musician).  Morgan did the sermon while Raleigh translated what she said to Spanish for the children.  Morgan mentioned that she spent 9 years at Emmanuel which definitely helped her grow as a person of God.

From left to right: Ana, Juan Carlos, Olivia 

Morgan and Raleigh

   I headed to the Comedor to eat lunch and then after lunch went back to the Girls Volunteer House to wait for Kaylyn to tell me that she was back at home from work and we could do the videochat.  When I got her text, I messaged her that I'd be headed to the store and would let Noah know that I was going there, and she should let Bob know to get his WhatsApp ready to do the videochat.  When we were all online, I saw Alina was at home as well and she had given Bob a pair of crocs for Father's Day.  Jaden had made Bob a clock that made reference to the movie Deadpool (which I know nothing about).  I didn't hear if Kaylyn had given Bob the gift she had planned for him, but Noah let Bob know that his gift was in the mail.  I had gotten Bob 2 shirts, the first was a Hawaiian shirt with the 2 dogs on it and the 2nd was a t-shirt with Bella and Mindy.  We chatted for a bit and Invisible (Pamela) and Oscar also said hello to Bob and wished him a Happy Father's Day...and they got to see Alina as well.

   After our conversation, I headed to the yard where the small girls were and sat with Noah there for a little over an hour.  One of the small girls decided to run around really fast and trip and fall, hitting her head on a rock or something hard and it swelled up to the size of a baseball.  They had to have a bag of ice on it for over 2 hours and the swelling mostly came down, but I am sure it will be black and blue for a while.  We showed her Noah's scar from when he was about the same age and did the same thing.  The calcification of the bone underneath the skin in that spot is still there, so there is still a bump on his forehead where it happened.

   I ended the day with heading to the Comedor for supper, where we ate spaghetti, beans, and tortillas.  I always take my water bottle down with me, but since plain water without ice is so difficult for me to drink down here and I do need to drink as much water as possible, I always buy flavor packets back in the States to add to the water so that I can drink quite a bit.  I do share what I have in the Comedor as the kids really like it.  So while there, I hype myself up to drink my glass of plain water (that I was served) in order to share most of my bottle of flavored water with the kids.  When I am out and about and not in the Comedor, then I drink the flavored water as I don't care for plain room temperature water.