Princess Pictures
[Belle came out of her room the other day having colored all these pictures from memory.] This is Belle holding a rose. And Tiana is at her restaurant dancing. And Snow White is dancing at her ball with her prince. Sleeping Beauty is dressing up at a ball for a dance party. Rapunzel is sitting on the floor listening to Flynn Rider read a story. Cinderella is shy from her prince. She thinks it’s just a man at the ball. Ariel is swimming with her friend...
Belle is 5!
Belle turned 5 on Sunday. Five seems like a big birthday to me. No longer a baby, toddler, or even a preschooler anymore! We are about to embark on the new world of school aged kids! I’m not sure I’m ready for that. It sure is going fast. Belle was born on mothers day and this year, for the first time since she was born, her birthday fell on mothers day again. We decided to make the day all about Belle, though, and wait to celebrate me next week. Considering...
Baby Belly
My belly is growing super fast this go ’round. I guess that’s what happens with number four. But I’m feeling good, and I don’t mind looking pregnant instead of pudgy! We were hoping to find out at our last appointment what we are having, but weren’t able to. Thankfully, we get to have an ultrasound at every appointment here, so we’ll try again next month. And the appointment is set for my birthday (May 24th), so I might get a...
A few of our favorite things
Lucy loves Little House on the Prairie. She loves to pretend that she is either Mary or Laura. She calls me Ma, her Daddy Pa and Everett Jack (that’s the name of the dog). So imagine her delight when we found these hats at a yard sale on the other mission base close by. “Laura” sporting her day bonnet and her sleeping hat Everett loves shoes. He loves to put on any shoes he sees lying around, no matter whose they are. He loves to get his shoes and...
Camp Out
This week the girls and I spent a night in our (2-man) tent. Despite the fact that it was crowded, all three of us made it through the night. Before “lights-out” we spent some time reading books together. Lucy actually said, “This is a fun night” at one point which, of course, made the hassle worth it. The girls wiggled and giggled for quite a while after their official bed time, but were asleep by 8:30 and they didn’t wake up until...
Happy Easter
Happy Easter! We love to celebrate Easter. It seems like it deserves a big celebration, seeing as it is the time we celebrate Jesus taking our punishment and rising from the dead to show he accomplished that. I hope all of you have a great time celebrating that tomorrow too! We made Easter a week long event this year. We read lots of Children’s Bible accounts of the Easter story all week, bit by bit, leading up to the big day on Sunday. We also made several Easter...
Neighborhood Fun
We have neighbors, but no streets. Can we call that a neighborhood? Regardless, here are some of the things we've done for fun over the last few weeks
Fruit
We eat a lot of yummy fruit here in PNG. There are amazing bananas, pineapples and papayas. We also get strawberries and mulberries. In Mibu they had wonderful oranges. A couple of our favorite fruits are new to us here though. Lucy in particular has developed a fondness for diwai tomatoes and sugar fruit/passion fruit. The “diwai tomato,” or “tree tomato,” is the reddish one on the left. You eat it by peeling off the skin...
Beating the Heat
I can’t speak for Elizabeth on this particular point, but I’m missing winter in South Carolina. I’m jealous as I see folks on facebook in jeans and coats. While it doesn’t get outrageously hot here outside, our house reaches 90 degrees for about five hours every afternoon thanks to the tin roof and lack of insulation. The kids don’t seem to mind so much, though, ever since we got our...
My Book
I made this book in school with Mommy. The one wearing the red dress is my mommy. The one wearing the blue shirt is my daddy. The one wearing the pink dress and is littler than the other one that is wearing the pink dress is Lucy. And the pink dress that is older than the little one wearing the pink dress is me. And the green blanket is Everett. This is my Family. My mother has a purse. My mother is sitting in a chair. My father is standing up and he’s trying to...
Valentine’s Ball
Friday the Junior class of the missionary-kid high school had a Valentine’s dinner (as a fund raiser.) The invitation said families were welcome so we decided to take the whole gang. I guess when you don’t have a dish washer and the restaurant selection in town isn’t that great, an event like this sounds pretty good. Beforehand my excitement level was only medium at best, but then Elizabeth decided we should tell the girls that we would all be going...
Foreign Christmas
There were a couple of things about our Christmas day that made us aware we were in PNG. First, while we were enjoying our Christmas morning breakfast of cinnamon rolls, breakfast casserole, fresh fruit and freshly squeezed OJ (thanks to my house helper…I’ll write more about her soon) a woman showed up at our door to sell us oranges and some other produce. That doesn’t usually happen at the US. Later, as we were finishing up dessert after Christmas...
Merry Christmas!
It was quite a merry Christmas here on the other side of the world! Its weird to think that we are finishing up Christmas day and most of you have not yet begun. I hope it is a great day for all of you! Christmas was a little more low key here, but it was merry none the less! We had a nice time as a family on Christmas Eve eating party food for supper and drinking hot cocoa while Daddy told the Christmas story before bed. Then this morning the girls woke up bright and...
Breaking News…
We’ll be back with more about the funeral, but we had to share our breaking news! We got a kitty! Meet Aurora: We have been having a rat problem so we thought a cat might help with that. It turns out one of the local guys who works here on our base had some kittens for sale, so we went ahead and bought one! We surprised the girls and took them with us to his house to pick one out after lunch today. The girls are SO excited about their new baby. We...
3 Little Indians
There are 4 new families here doing orientation and Pidgin study. All of us are always trying to get in hours learning Pidgin and most of us have 2 official language sessions per week. In order to have a time when we can focus exclusively on language learning, the Walkers and we switch off babysitting during one of our sessions per week. Every Monday I keep the Walkers’ 2 kids and every Tuesday they keep our kids. Katie and I both do some kind of school...
PNG Time
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