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<\/a><\/p>\nJevon making plans for the electrical set-up of our house.<\/p>\n
The breaker box he made with added surge protection.<\/p>\n Three shopping carts full of food.\u00a0 And my amazingly patient coworker who stayed with me for a few hours, helping, offering advice, inspecting every bag for any tiny sign of bugs or mold, and waiting while I thought things through and made decisions.\u00a0 Hopefully this will be a lot easier and faster the next time I have to do it.<\/p>\n Packing some of the food in boxes and taping them up.<\/p>\n Washing bottles.\u00a0 A taxi driver friend of the mission heard we needed bottles for storing dry foods, so he went to the factory for us, and came back with 108 bottles of out-of-date, fizz-less, or spoiled soda in his trunk.\u00a0 The kids had fun dumping it out, and the adults spent an afternoon and then some washing bottles.\u00a0 The next day God provided a super hot and sunny sky with no rainy season rain, which was a much needed help in getting all of those bottles perfectly dry.\u00a0 (sidenote: When we signed up to be missionaries, we didn’t know that washing out a hundred-some pop bottles was part of the assignment.\u00a0 The moral of that story is: Be ready to do whatever God asks of you!)<\/p>\n They tell us that pop bottles do even better than tupperware for keeping food dry, mold-free, and bug-free for months on end.\u00a0 Since our tupperware is still on a barge on its way here, and since there isn’t enough of it anyways for that<\/em> much rice, beans, and flour, we decided to try the bottle advice.\u00a0 Jevon made a funnel out of another bottle and two bottle caps, and it is a lot more efficient than a typical kitchen funnel.\u00a0 But it still took all day to finish the job.<\/p>\n Aren’t they so pretty?\u00a0 I love all the colors.<\/p>\n Jevon looking at the airplane measurements on line and trying to imagine how things are going to fit and how many flights its going to take.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Cali is continuing with first grade, and Karina is starting My Father’s World kindergarten.\u00a0 (Last semester we let her just focus on her Brazilian school.\u00a0 That’s why we are starting American kindergarten in the middle of the year.)<\/p>\n Counting seeds, observing seed arrangements, and recording her findings.<\/p>\n Reading race track – just for fun, to change up the reading practice.\u00a0 The car involved made Isaiah wish he was in first grade, too.<\/p>\n Climbing the coconut tree.<\/p>\n Drinking coconut water from a straw.\u00a0 Yes, we really do drink coconut water from a straw.\u00a0 (When we have lots of coconuts to spare, anyways, which isn’t all<\/em> the time.)\u00a0 It’s fun, super hydrating, and tastes good.\u00a0 The girl in the middle with blond curls and big brown eyes is Ester, our coworkers’ daughter.\u00a0 She is about Isaiah’s age.\u00a0 The two of them run around together, playing happily one second and getting in fights the next.\u00a0 We are glad they have each other.<\/p>\n Enjoying the rainy season puddles.<\/p>\n Trying to make the biggest splash she can.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n