Emma is going to be Mary in the Christmas program!!!!! I am so excited and so is she. There is an older boy that will be Joseph, so hopefully that won’t make her shy. It sounds like she has a solo to sing: a lullaby that she sings to her baby!!! We will take TONZ of pictures and video-don’t you worry about that. I had to take Emma to the clinic today and we found out that she has a urinary tract infection, so she is on an antibiotic. We have to go back next Tuesday to check how she is doing.
Yesterday Garth got Cale up in the morning and Cale said “owie” and pointed to his foot so we looked at his toe and sure enough he has a cut under his pinkie toe. We cleaned it out and put socks on to keep it clean. As we were putting on his tennis shoes, I noticed that they were starting to get small, so we decided to go get him a new pair of shoes. When we got to the store, at least 5 sales clerks came over to help us. They were all handing us random shoes to try on. There is no rhyme or reason to Indonesian shoes-size 19 was smaller than size 27, but size 8 was bigger. But some size 19’s were bigger, so it was quite confusing. And the shoes are not kept together by girls, boys, adults-they are just put out however with no sense of organization. One of the sales clerk brought Cale over a shiny pair of pink, zip up, sequined boots- and of course, Cale was trying to put them on. I wondered why he brought them over until it occurred to me that the guy thought Cale was a girl because of his hair. I told him “laki, laki” (boy) and he was embarrassed, but laughed. One guy knew English and said, “This is so funny!” We did eventually find him a pair of shoes with balls on them (perfect) for only $4.50. Cale loves them. But today, however we found a down side to Indonesian shoes. They really don’t have traction on them. Cale kept wiping out in the grocery store because the shoes were so slippery. He has a bump on his head to prove it. We will have to hold on to him better.
Wyatt’s class is doing an all school chapel on Thursday and Wyatt has many lines that he had to memorize. He is amazing with things like that. Not only did he learn all of his lines, but he knows everybody else’s lines too. He is really looking forward to doing the skit because it will be the first time he will be up in front of the school. He is not nervous. You can be sure we will take pictures of that as well.
Sophie, the crazy girl, told me today when she was sitting on my lap during a motorcycle ride, “ Mom, today I was sniffin’ out our new land.” I said “Really, how did you do that?” “Just like this,” she says as she sniff, sniffs with her nose. “How did it smell?” I ask. “It smelled good!” she said with a big smile. Then later she complained about her ears hurting (I will take her to the clinic about that tomorrow), and I asked her how does it feel-what does the hurt feel like? She says, “Well, my one ear feels like it is dead, and the other ear feels like it is dying.” Only Sophie would describe it that way.
Hope your ears are feeling good-I hear it is getting cold so keep them covered.
Love you all-Rache
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