What's more fun than cooking with a brood of children? Now a days, anytime I step foot into the kitchen I have several volunteers who would love nothing more than to hep!
So last week, we decided to make empanadas!
It was fun to use fresh Basil from my garden!
Here is our houses #1 helper, whether you're cooking, cleaning, organizing or just having fun, this little boy has no desire other than to help!
And here he is enjoying the fruits of his labors!
I'll be blogging more frequently now that we've made it through the holidays.
I'm getting really excited and a little stressed for the team to arrive! One week from today!!! It's unbelievable, please pray for them as they make their final plans and get packing!
Also, in the next week a lot of changes are going to happen here at CDA 2 (more details to follow) so please pray for us as we make plans and prepare the kids for all the changes to come.
Well, we wanted to do something special to ring in the new year here at Casa 2, and what's more special than a bonfire complete with S'mores????
The smores were a BIG hit!
Although the Tia-Sanctioned Playing with fire was also quite appreciated!
Even Tia Luz got in on the Smores action!
This scalliwag kept coming back for more and more, and I kept asking him "Aren't you full yet? You really want more??"
What I didn't realize was that he was collecting smores in a bowl that he brought out when we all sat down to watch a movie, he had NINE smores! All of the other kids (who had eaten their smores outside while making them) we SOOO jealous!
Sadly, the precious child pictured about (J) is having some amoeba trouble and under doctors orders is not supposed to eat sweet things, so he was only given one marshmallow. But he really savored it!
These pictures really remind me of the campfire I had with some of these same kids almost a year ago!
After smores, it was movie time! And so we of course had to make some popcorn.
As the Tia on duty, I figured I would let them watch movies until they fell asleep and then carry them off to their beds. BUT, All 13 of the kids were still WIDE AWAKE at midnight! I couldn't believe it! So we counted down the new year and went off to bed, listening to the eruption of fireworks across Cochabamba. We could even see some from the boys bedroom windows which was pretty special!
It was a fun night, and I'm so glad that I could be here with these kids!
In other news, time is passing SOOO quickly here! I can hardly believe that in less than a month the SCC team will be here! Please pray for them as they continue making plans and prepare to make this big trip!
Please continue to pray for these kids and for the Tias that care for them.
Happy New Year!
(Here's a little video of our smore making, I didn't realize until I already posted it that it's sideways, and considering how long it took to upload, I'm not doing it again!)
