Lazy Saturday: Photos from the Week

I am washing a couple more loads of clothes now as I don't think we'll have a chance for anymore laundry before departing, Lord willing.  Tomorrow is Sunday and we don't want to inconvenience the Greer family to use their washer on the day of rest, Monday we will be in Kampala all day again for our interview, and Tuesday we hope to be flying home.

Random: Here is a picture of Patricia in her second time at the grocery store, first time with Daddy pushing her in the fancy cart.  I couldn't load it yesterday as it takes awhile to load pictures, and, as you know, we had no power so we were all standing around the computer, cheering it on, to load the four pictures that I did post before the battery ran out.

Patricia is taking to Nate especially these days.  She goes to him when she needs help opening something or if she wants someone to hold her.  We are very thankful for this as she has not, to our knowledge, ever had a father figure in her life.  No one to help her feel protected or secure or to tell her she is beautiful.  Last night when we were without power she was sitting on Nate's lap on the bed.  They were playing a game where he would pretend to be sleeping and she would say, "A cock-er-dile is coming to eat you!" and he would get all freaked out and tickle her and say whether he was scared or not.  Her British-like accent and squeaky, high voice made it the best.  Who doesn't love it when kids are belly laughing uncontrollably while being tickled?  For the record, Nate wasn't scared of a scarecrow, a frog, nor the ants.  But he was scared of the panther, the tiger and the lion.  I hope I'm not divulging too much information that might lead to the wetting of his pants if, say, his friends back home were to suddenly produce a panther during conversation or something.  You never know.

Maren has been enjoying a lot of this on the hammock of the guesthouse porch.

I also thought you all might like to see the special African carseats that they have here in Uganda.

This is one of the little guys staying at the home of one of the missionaries here.  He is a precious, chubby thing and he was wiped out while driving home from shopping in Jinja the other day.  It took him a little while to warm up to Nate, but he soon became very comfortable.  For the record, we are all about the level of safety, or lack thereof, here in Uganda.  Of course there are things here that the Ugandan kids do that make us very uncomfortable, like two year olds on the side of busy roads lugging water jugs, but there is a big part of the freedom and lack of restriction that we find refreshing.  Like not having to be in a carseat until you're 33 and 130 lbs.  We still do love you, though, if you're currently riding in an adult-sized car seat.  We'll see you in heaven eventually when you're 110 years old, thanks to taking advantage of all available precautions.

The laundry is finished, so I will close now.  Wishing everyone a restful weekend spending time with your families.

Love,
Kim 

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21