Kids' Eye View.

Naomi's Perspective:  I think you can spot Naomi on the veranda, alongside the pencil crayons. 

Can you find Jacob and Maria?

We're keeping a written journal.  Hopefully the kids will be able to post here as well once things are more established, but for now I thought you might find the view from their perspectives interesting.  Below are selected snippets from each (including spelling errorrssss).  Lest you get a skewed perspective and think adjustment is all fun and games, we have often been reminded in this transition that 'feelings don't just tickle':  Each of us can go up and down, but we are doing well and, as the collective (corrective?) perspective of our brothers and sisters in church on Sunday reminded us, in unison, "God is good ... all the time!  All the time ... God is good!"

From Jacob:
January 8, 2012
...My Dad had to wake me up at 9:00 a.m.  I was very Tired.  Breakfast was quite goon (Normal).  We went to church a little bit late and that was good because it was extremely long...  We had lunch at some other peoples house.  When we came home some kids came and said Hello and I brauht out my football (soccer ball) and started To play.  There were four to start and at the end of playing There were at least 10 people...


From Maria:
January 9, 2012
...Today we had lots of fun!  We played with some African kids in the morning.  We did lots of things like soccer (football) and we coloured lots of pictures ... we went out for lunch at CHOICES.  The food was good but very spicy!  We all got pop well except for Zac. After that we went to the market.  It is cool!  We got 3 baskets, 2 tubs, oranges, wooden spoons, bananas, mouse traps, and SIM cards.  Thre are lots of things in the market.  They were even selling water bottles full of gas...

From Naomi:
(Scribed by Joel)
...Today we washed the clothes.  It was fun!  Well, kind of ... I guess the part where we were chucking water on each other was fun!  When we were done we washed the deck.  It was fun!  When Dad came home, he was riding a dirtbike!  It kinda scared me a little, I never knew Dad could ride those things.  Maybe I'll get a ride on one sometime.  There are mice in our house!  They are funny!  Mom named them "Marten" (grey one) and "Stephanie"  (black one).  We set traps (we used my cheese that fell on the ground and peanut butter)...