Friday, June 27, 2008

First ride on a plane

So I located our other memory card and pulled these photos off.

This was the girls' first ride on an airplane!

Here they are cheesing with the gum in their mouths. They were so excited about gum being *required* on a plane ride.

And the headphones were a big treat. They kept checking out all the music stations they could hear and they were totally rocking out!

When we took off, they got so excited that the whole plane laughed when Bekah said, "Woo hooooo!"

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Bekah's photography

As I said a few posts ago, on the second day of the dental clinics, Bekah was playing photographer for a lot of the day.

So here's a little peek into Bekah's view of things.

Her whistle.












This one she took through the holes in the back of a chair.



Wednesday, June 25, 2008

I love you bigger than...

Lydia:
Mommy, I love you bigger than Bekah's bed.

Me:
Well I love you bigger than the whole house.

Lydia:
Well I love you bigger than the whole world.

Me: Well I love you bigger than the universe.

Lydia:
Well I love you bigger than the Israelites!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Dental Clinic Day 2

The second day of the dental clinic was held at another church in a more rural village.




There were several farm animals in the village, which the girls found fascinating. Lydia kept chasing the chickens.




It wasn't very far from the mission house, so we were able to stay there longer and saw 25 people that day.




Here is the pastor of the church with Dr. Mark Chunn. And he asked that I take a photo of his children as well. We brought a little portable printer with us, so I was able to print out some photos for the families that had been so hospitable to us.




Debbie, the girls and I were put in charge of entertaining the children again. There were many more children this time and we kept busy all day. We played soccer for a few hours here as well.




And then we tried other things to occupy our time. Either they would show us one of their games, or we would introduce one of ours (like limbo, here).




And sometimes they just had fun being kids and jumping off of things (something that Lydia started, of course).




And the color sheets and crayons were a big hit as well.




A family from the church (pictured) made us a wonderful lunch which included beef, vegetables, black beans, tortillas, salsa and coffee. They went to so much trouble, moving a table from the church, putting on a table cloth and setting out their best napkins and china. We were truly humbled. And the meal was delicious.



After lunch, Mark got to share some cookies with the kids. He hadn't gotten to see many people, except for his patients, so I know this was a fun part of the day for him.



Here he is with some of the kiddos.



And here, Lydia is demonstrating how we washed our hands at this church. *grin*



Lydia really hit it off with this little girl. They found that they had a past time in common - spinning and dancing like a crazy person!! Ha ha!




There were very few problems with the girls and the language barrier. Lydia just jumped right in and Bekah tried her Spanish, if she could.



Here is Lydia totally enthralled with this baby girl.



Sorry there aren't many pictures of Bekah here. This was the day that she played photographer. She took a ton of pictures this day.




And this little boy is my favorite story of the day. His older brother and sister had seen the dentist and he wanted to go too. He hopped up in the dentist chair and opened his mouth wide. Only there was nothing wrong with his teeth and there was nothing that needed to be treated. The little boy was SO disappointed. So Mark had Julie tell the mom that he was going to "treat" the little boy. Mark rubbed his gums and then put numbing stuff on his lip and tongue. Then he had him bite down on some gauze. Then the little boy joined his brother and sister with this look on his face like he'd had major dental work. He just wanted to fit in! It was SO cute!























Check out the girls' dance moves - Bekah's dance moves at the end totally crack me up. Yes, she got her dancing skills from me!!

Monday, June 23, 2008

Vacation Bible School



















The girls had Vacation Bible School last week and the theme was Power Lab. They did all kinds of cool experiments.




And two "professors" (Jon and Stacy) did experiments at the beginning of each night's session. Here they are making "snow."



Curtis did a great job during the teaching time. When he was teaching about courage, he told the kids that he was afraid of snakes. Then Noah Pugh (5 years old) yelled out, "Mr. Curtis! There's a snake behind you!" It was so hilarious.

All of the games were geared around science experiments too. On Wednesday night, they filled a plastic cup with water, covered it with a piece of paper, then turned it over. Then the kids had to try to pass it around without the water falling out.

And their crafts each night were fun like that too. On Wednesday, they did an experiment of putting two little "men" in a water bottle. By squeezing the water bottle, you could get the men to go up and down in the bottle and "rescue" each other.
Then on Thursday, they put a powder mixture in a mold and then soaked it in a cup to make a bouncy ball.










Norika got hold of Stacy's wig. She looks hilarious!
And Bekah was cracking me up all night with these goggles. She kept reminding me of Napoleon Dynamite.