Little Critters and More

For some reason coming to Honduras has made me fear little critters a lot less. But instead of just lacking fear of them, for some reason I all of the sudden want to pick them up and play with them. Yeah, this is shocking for me too. Not spiders and beetles and such, but nonetheless some critters. We have started to document each of these moments... here's what we have so far:

biggest frog I have ever seen

wittle baby froggie

and a crab?

Don't ask me where the crab came from up at 4,500 feet in the mountains, but it happened. He was quite the feisty little guy. A medical/construction team has been trickling in over the past few days, so we have been getting to know them and working/playing at the Children's Home a good bit. I kicked booty twice in two Egyptian Ratscrew card games with some of the team.

Lots of things have been going on since the team arrived:

- Suzy got her hair cut. Suzy is the founder of the LAMB Institute (where I am working this summer). She usually gets her haircut in a barrio for $2.50 (but I heard her barber just recently went up to $3). This was quite the little treat for her and for everyone watching who received lots of entertainment and laughs from how fun(ny) it was!

 

- We sanded some railings and some doors at Sala Cuna (the nursery) at the Children's Home in preparation for some new paint! The team had fun with that!

the little ones wanted to know what we were doing to their doors..

- We rounded up the kids and played an interesting game of kickball. This didn't last very long before they wanted to play soccer again, but we managed to keep them interested for almost an hour! We also had the little girls jumping rope, and we had a wipe out after an attempt to demonstrate the 3-legged-race for the kids.

after the 3-legged-race wipeout

Caty doing her thing

Jose David kicks one out of the park (or just very far off of the concrete slab)

making sure Jose David doesn't steal any bases

I know, we all look really legit.......

- There seems to be a trend spreading with the sunglasses...

Alyssa and Alex

Marlon

Isaac

                     

- Here are some pictures of random cuties and other things that have been going down.

I had to include this for its preciousness- Noe!

  

Cute tummy hug from Andrea

We ate our breakfast in the dark after the power went out..

Alyssa had her first fall ever at the Children's Home- battle wounds!

Johanna's learned a new eyelid trick... gross

Giancarlos- the awesome pewter shop nearby

Alyssa, Amanda and I went to the Alonzo movement Wednesday night (an AWESOME part of our ministry here in HN)

the people next door are getting new tiling, and mixing the concrete right there on the street. interesting...

And last but not least, we received a special treat when Menguin 9one of our staff members) rapped for us on the spot. So much energy and so much talent!