Some Recent Happenings...

• Keyla, one of our older girls, just completed her 4th year of high school. She now has one more year left –which she will be starting in a couple of months. Her schedule is slightly different than the other high school girls due to her being an older mother. Her schedule goes something like this: she takes her son to school in the morning, then goes to work at the office until Kevin gets out of school at around noon. On Mondays and Tuesday, in the evening, she attends classes.
• Lisa and Casey embarked on a 9+ week trip to Texas. Casey is trying to have a much needed surgery, and Lisa is working in order to maintain her nursing license. Keep them in your prayers.
• A few weeks ago a guy stopped by and asked me if I wanted to purchase a Kaman (a crocodile). Fortunately, he happened to bring it by –playing with it was not near as fun as I would have hopped. It was only a baby (a little over a foot in length), so he said it had plenty of time to grow (somewhere around the 5-6 foot range). I asked him if it made a good pet for children and he just stared at me – that apparently was not funny.
• The water is now receding with force. We were scared for some time because it would recede, and then a heavy rain would come, and then it would rise back up once again. We have removed all of the sandbags –they were laden with ants trying to escape the water…that was awesome –so we can now walk normally once again. We took away the kids playground however, so they are bummed. With the water receding, we have had a few sewer backups. A giant one happened the other day due to a huge frog that was stuck in the pipe. A few other ones have come from sticks.
• The other day, a kid stopped by asking me if we would like to purchase a sloth. Apparently it was eating peacefully in a tree, his dad saw it, shook the tree wildly, it fell down, and now it is up for a mandatory adoption.
• We recently came under the possession of an Achune. She looks like a tiny, little, cute, teddy bear/ant eater. This little animal is awesome in the sense that we can let in roam around our property and it will be content, but it is no angel. It digs ditches, climbs trees, has a unique scream and bites people when touched. The nice thing is that it likes to play by itself.
• We have come across a few more snakes. Sadly, one of them was pregnant –down here, when you see a snake, you just kill it. But that can also be a positive thing depending on how you look at it.
• I finally cut my hair. It started out with just our girls and my wife telling me how ugly and unbearable it was daily, but now that the whole community is saying it, so it is time to cut it off. It went well, except for the fact that the hair cutting shears broke half-way through the experience. What was supposed to be a 15 minute process gradually developed into an hour and a half safety/rescue mission. Thanks to Kelly, it is now bearable. However, this spurred the interest for a new haircut for Marcos…
• Marcos had his head shaved. He now looks like a Latin American Buddha. His mother attempted to give him a hair cut, but it turned out…um...well…a little ugly. So, she asked Kelly to shave his head to save him and give him a little dignity. Now, no-one can stop from chuckling when they see him.