No School (Part1)

A few weeks ago, between the thick of rainy season and almost daily blockades the kids ended up with alot of days off of school! On one of these rainy blockade days we decided we better make some plans or we'd ALL go crazy!

The day started out with an indoor relay race.

Explaining the game:

Here are the teams:

Let the games begin! (Running in the house is CRAZY fun!)

Stay tuned for the next part of our day off!

Bedtime (almost)

These four roommates were allowed to stay up a little later then everyone else a few nights ago as a reward for good behavior. You'd never think reading books together for 15 extra minutes could be so fun!

Three of them started out wearing their matching Spiderman pajamas, but J, the third one over came and asked me if he could change into his so they could all match : )

A Little Sleepy....

Sometimes, kids just can't make it until naptime!

The Little Ones....

Just a few pictures of some of my favorite "pequano's"

I'm doing really well, though I seem to get busier everyday! Rainy season is in full swing which means the laundry is never dry and we lose electricity almost everyday but after living in San Diego for 3 years I can't say I'm not enjoying the rain at least a little bit!
The kids are doing well in school and we're getting into the swing of things with our two new boys and the other changes we've had around the house.

I want to thank all of you for praying, reading the blog and supporting me financially. I am loving my time with these amazing and precious kids. I have learned sooooo much during my time here and I can't even begin to guess what else I have to learn about God, compassion, myself and not to mention parenting!
I have officially committed to work for Casa de Amor for the next 5 months (until August) and your support has allowed me to do that.
I would appreciate your continued prayer especially regarding what God has in store for me after me time here, please pray for peace of mind while I wait for God to reveal his plan to me.

Thank you so much, and I will TRY to make the blog posts more frequent,

Kaley

Socks!

Next time you can't find matches to a few odd socks, think of how I spent my afternoon!

Kaley

Prayer Requests:

1) I seem to have developed a very slight, yet very annoying illness of some kind, so please pray that I'll kick that quickly!

2) There are some riots and blockades going on in the city right which is making it nearly impossible to go anywhere and school has been canceled all week. Please pray for safety for all of us and for the kids as we wait for this to be over with!

On the Town

Last week I had the chance to spend some quality time with these two lovely young ladies.

 

We started the day of with blue lollipops. Hence the tongue pictures! 

 

Then went to a fun restaurant with a kids room! 

She's so cute!

 

We had juice...

                                                                           and "look Tia!" Ice!!!!!

It was a great day!

Sunday Morning's Are the Best!

I am the official "Tia" on shift Saturday night through Sunday morning. With this comes the job of making breakfast for the kids. (Currently 14 of them) Of course, I couldn't do this without a little help! 

This Sunday, we had fresh Banana-Orange Juice with Morning Glory Bread.

                   
                                   The girls had fun taking turns squeezing the oranges!

So fun!

-Kaley

Good Morning Cochabamba!

 Well it's that time again. Time to get up at 5am everyday and head to school for fun and learning. Here are some of the excited faces we had here at the house on the first day!

Still asleep? Yes.

I wonder who's teeth actually got cleaned well that morning!

"What's happening Tia???"

"Ok, I'm getting up now, can't wait to start my first day of Kindergarten"

"No, I was wrong, Kindergarten can definitely wait."

We're now a week in and they're all doing really well! We have 3 2nd graders, 2 first graders, 4 kindergarteners, and 4 pre-kindergarteners.

Of all 14 of our House 2 kids, only this munchkin didn't quite make it to school age. But she doesn't hate having the Tias to herself!

Babies!

So I realized that I post a lot about our older kids but I don't think I've EVER posted about the Babies! So here they are, the babies of Casa de Amor!

One of my favorites, check out the hair! Working on 7 months!

Our cutest! 4 months.

Our Chubbiest!!! 6 months.

And our new little girl, 2 months.

I have to say, I'm jealous of Pauline and her baby holding capacity. My legs are too short to do that!!!

 I promise to post more often!

Thanks for reading!
Kaley

I Love House 2!

I love living at House 2! The kids are so great, you can't help falling in love with them!

Although sometimes, they can't make it through a whole meal!

And sometimes they have a little to much fun in time-out!

Not sure what she was doing with the broom, but it looks like something fun!

Outside time is the best!

I'd also be annoyed if the Tia was taking pictures instead of pushing me on the swing!

So Cute!

It's a good thing he's got those glasses, otherwise he may have trouble watching the movie!

I'm so sick of the stupid wolf movie!

 Good Times!

Kaley!

Prayer Requests:

1) The next week is going to bring:
           A) Two new little boys to our (already very full) house.
           B) The loss of our big backyard, (and best part of our house)
Please pray that we'll be able to incorporate our new boys as best as possible into our lives here and that some kind of solution would present itself for our house troubles!

Thanks!