Evening activities...

Since the time change (don't ask me why Haiti observes daylight savings) it gets light at 5:30 in the morning and dark about the same time in the evening. Which means instead of playing outside till nearly bedtime, we have long evenings. The fun part about it is that we get lots of reading done. I enjoy reading aloud to the children and we have been reading lots of books about nature.

Cherlise has discovered the joy of reading... :-) I love it when my children are book worms!

Weston is an expert fisherman. One day my maid tried her hand at "fishing" and was amazed at the coordination that game takes!

"Mommy, take a picture of me"

Weston saw me with my camera and begged me to take a picture of him with his guavas. Our guavas grow wild here, and the children can hardly wait for them to get halfway ripe before they eat them!

Thanksgiving Day {Pinata Fun}

Pinatas are becoming a tradition on Thanksgiving Day... This cow was tough... the children had varying ideas as to what kind of creature it was. Some thought a pig and one thought maybe it was a hippo. :-)

After the children had their fill, it took the big guys to break it!

Thanksgiving Day Fun

The children think Thanksgiving Day is the best out of the whole year. We had an enjoyable day with the GTH crew...

Cherlise had fun spoiling Mikayla...

There were all kinds of relay races... This one really tested their teamwork abilities :-)

(Some of them needed a little bit of encouragement. It made all the difference if they could hold an adults hand...)

And that cute little pair, Kenneth and Janelle, made the best time. They actually won the race! Somehow they figured out how to hop together... 

Sack races... even the young people had to try... :-)

Love this little hopper... :-)

And this one, too... 

Just us...

I just love this little lady... She's not an easy one to get a good picture of, but this one shows more of her personality that most pictures do. :-)

Our most recent family picture... this crew is growing up so fast!!!

All it takes is a bit of imagination...

...A laundry basket cover, a stick, and a handkerchief - and you have an umbrella!!

Boy's play

Sometimes I can't help but shake my head at my boys. They watched the well-drilling and several weeks later, this is what came out of it - a well of their own - dug with a piece of steel!

The problem is - they didn't have water in their well either. But that's easy to solve - just dump water in it. "Mommy, why don't we do that to the {real} well?"