August: Cassave Root

We had cassava root for a snack in the village. You peel off the bark and eat unil the core. Yumm!

August: New House & Visitor

We move to a new house and saw a peacock in our yard twice. A girl one.

July: Eating With Our Hands

I put one hand behind my back so I will remember to eat only with my right hand (because your lfet hand is your potty and nose picking hand in Africa). -E

July: Friend

Playing with my friend cathy in our cortyard. -C

July: Doing Laundry

I like to help my friend Amanda* (or Amelia Bedelia) do cleaning. Our washer wasn't working so she was washing our clothes by hand. I like to play with the water and soap! -E

July: Time in the Village

Sitting with friends. -C

Eating a bug. eeeeeeew! -C

I love to play in the hammock. -E

In the villge playing. -H

The heat of the day is a great time for a litte nap (but a bit sweaty)! -E

Here I am helping my friend sweep the dirt courtyard. -E

I am eat yummy sweet bread. -H

June: Fun with Friends

The people our Mommy and Daddy work with got together for a yearly meeting and so we got to see all our friends.

Uuut t9imkfkkjfjkjgfjgfjmbg. (I got to swim in a pool. It was green and a little slimy, but I didn't care!)-E

We did a song and play and it was fun. -H

Signing with my mommy to our favorite song "While I'm Waiting". -C

We had a silent auction and I got a camera with my allowance! Yeah! HaHa! -C

June: In the Village

doing a word searh in the village. -h

Dokeys fighting and falling in a well.-C

Siting and eating a snack.-C

My best friend in the village, Felicity*, who I love to follow around. -E

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: 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: 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.

Fun in Mali

This is our new dog named Aslan. C decorated his collar with flowers. I like Aslan because he is a good dog. Today we gave him a bath!

We were making chocolate chip cookies and a vanilla cake. I picked pink food coloring to make the cake pink. C picked green food coloring to make the icing green. It tasted yummy!

We went to a village with our new friends M & E. M is my age and E is C's age!

These are some movies our Mimi sent us!

These are our new African clothes. I picked out the fabric and what it would look like and the tailor made it for me.

We went to a place called Steak House. I like the steak and mashed potatoes!

These are some of our new African friends. We like to play in our courtyard. We are sweeping the sidewalk with an African broom.

I like helping Mommy cook. (We are in our new kitchen in Mali.)

We have a room in Mali and it is pink. I share it with E.

We went to N'ice cream before we eft Senegal and the ice cream we good!

We went to an island in Senegal and we got to play in the water at the beach.

I got to do a sand painting and it was fun! They had lots of different colors of sand from all over Africa.

We got to sit on a cannon!

Our guide gave me this flower.

By, H

Happy Days in Mali!

We got a dog! his name is Aslan. he is fun.

My Mimi sent us Books. I love to read.

I got some Afrcain clothes. I love Afrca!

We went to an isiand. We went to a restaurant a man came. he askd me my name and then he sang a song about me.

And when we were there we went to a sand painters shop. and me & H got to sand paint. it was fun.

We got a big new desk. cool Huh! HA HA!

Our Aunt sent a PACKAGE! and she sent kool-aid!

This is Mail wood!

We went to Broadway and we got a milk shake!

It was delicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By, C