May: Allowance!

We have been checking off our chores list so that we can get allowance.

May: H the monkey!

I love to climb trees! -H

May: Another Visit to a Village

E loves mangos.

And she makes freinds wherever she goes.

She likes reading books.

C & H making friends too.

The kids in the village don't have toys so they make toys with whatever they can find. This boy is playing with a old moto tire and a stick.

Baking Fun

Me and Mommy baking a cake and having alot of fun. I love to cook and bake with my mommy. -C

April: Another Visit to a Village

Our friends in a village in Mali.

We ate mangoes and Mommy and Daddy ate them like the Africans do. They cut some up for us to eat. They also gave us lots and lots of mangoes to take and eat at home.

E loves to help our friend Nathan's* wife, Felicity* prepare the meals. They are using a mortar and pestal to pound the ingriedients for the sauce. (Like onions, seasoning, etc.)

It was a hot day because it is hot season now, but we had a lot of fun.

March: Trip to Burkina Faso

We went to Burkina Faso and it was really fun. Burkina Faso didn't have as many motos as Mali has. It didn't seem as hot either.

We went swimming that was fun too. So much fun that I stayed in the longest and didn't want to get out. -C

The water was cold! We also want to a store that had a place to play inside and there was a trampoline and a ball pool and a zip line. -H

We stayed with our friend Alice and we went to get some ice cream too. It was very yummy ice cream.

We also stayed with our friends Uncle David and Aunt Cindy. They had two dogs named Nala and Chiara. We liked them a lot.

April: Moto Ride

Don't worry it was only in our courtyard!

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March: Day in the Village

We went to a new village closer to the big city where we live.

We tried a new fruit called a cashew fruit and we didn't like it very much.

I tried to teach the kids how to make faces. -C

They laughed at all my silly faces. -C

It was funny to see them try to do the same faces I showed them. -C

We had fun playing in the village.

March: Visit to a Carnival

We went with some friends to a carnival at a school here and we had lots of fun. We even got to get our faces painted!

March: E turns 4!

The Bee day girl.

Lots of friends came to her party and some even dressed like bees for her "Bumble Bee Birthday."

Blowing out the candles!

March: Ice Cream Shoppe!

Our friends made a pretend ice cream shoppe and we had fun going and getting ice cream.

We had really good ice cream. I had vanilla with blue sprinkles. (H) I had chocolate and vanilla with monster sprinkles. (C) I had chocolate with pink and blue sprinkles. (E)

At the window we gave our order.

We even had menus to look at and pick from.

February: Valentine's & Visit to a Village

We went to our friends' families village and spent the night. We ate rice and sauce and they gave up spoons even though they eat with their hands. For breakfast we had something called "see-ree" it is kind of like oatmeal or poridge made out of rice. They let us sleep in their school house.

We were watching as they pounded the grain.

In February we did lots of baking.

We made cookies for Valentine's Day.

We took them to our classes.

January: Trip to Kenya!

We went on a trip to Kenya for our Daddies' class. We even got to go on a safari! We saw lions, girafes, hyeinas, monkeys, (lots and lots of monkeys!), a lepord, rhinos, impalas, cape buffalo, zebras.

We went to a tea farm. We got to feed mokeys. It was so cool! After we went to see how they planted the tea.

We got to feed girafes. It was cool and fun and awesome and great. We also got to go to some movies at the movie theatre while we were in Kenya and they were in English!

We also saw baby elephants and we learned about them and what happened to their parents because they were orphans. We also got to go to some malls and even play putt-putt golf! We got to swim in a swimming pool too. It was a great trip.

January: Waterfall!

For New Year's we went camping with many friends. One day we went to this waterfall. It was cool. It was the funnest time of my life. So many fun things happened.

The water felt good for a hot day. The water was real cold.

I was sitting on a rock watching for fish but there was none.

I had lots of fun but got really wet and ended up playing in the water in only my underwear.

I was standing on a rock. I had real fun on the camping trip. We had hot chocolate. There were even fireworks. We got to light one! We played frisbe. We saw a movie outside on the side of a house. The movie was Yours, Mine & Ours (the old one). We liked it a lot! We stayed up a long time.

December: Christmas Day

A really good dress that our tailor made. We each picked out our fabrics. I like mine. We got to open them on Christmas Day. That day I had so much fun. After we opened presents we went to church.

I like my soccer ball a lot. Mommy and Daddy got it for me. I got Polly Pockets from my Nana. I liked Christmas a lot.

I got this doll. Mommy and Daddy let us open one gift on Christmas Eve. We had a great Christmas. We went to dinner with some friends.