Our New House

After 2 months of living in Honduras, we finally got a house. I love the house! It's the best house I've ever lived in. It has 4 bedrooms, two bathrooms, and it has a playroom in the attic! It has three levels. Three bedrooms are downstairs, one for Joshua and me, and two for visitors. Upstairs there's a bedroom for Mommy and Daddy, and a kitchen, a dining room, and a living room. And in the attic, we have all our toys, and our desks for school and a table for activities, and all our books in a big bookcase. I love my new home. It took us forever to move in because the men were working on it, sanding the floor and the walls, and painting, and fixing everything. Then they painted the house outside a red-orange color called terracota with white on the windows.

We have a little kitty, her name is Candy, or Dulce in Spanish. She has a little house outside. She's really cute.

Michaela

Jonathan James Lohr

Today we are going to talk about our little brother Jonathan James Lohr. Though his real name is "King of the Rolly Pollies, Wiggle Worm, Moving Target, Baby Baton, Jonathan James Lohr!"

His 1st name is King of the Rolly Pollies because one day we were pretending that Jonathan was doing a roll race and... he won! so...that made him King of the Rolly Pollies! Because he was also rolling from one side of the room to the other end of the room.

His 2nd name is Wiggle Worm because when I change his diaper he moves and moves and moves and moves and moves. So I call him my little Wiggle Worm.

His 3rd name is Moving Target because its hard to keep him still, like when I'm trying to put his socks on.

His 4th name is Baby Baton, because after the parade (see the post about the parade), my uncle Chris wrote to us on the comments and told me that Jonathan could be my little Baby Baton and I had to swing him around!

He learned how to crawl and he crawls faster now. I have to put Mommy's phone or something he likes on the other side of the bed and he will crawl to it.

He learned how to stand up today in his little playpen! He loves standing up! He holds on to the edge of the playpen for a long time and peeks over the edge to see what we are doing.

He loves to laugh about silly things that we do. He's soo cute! He just turned 7 months old on Sunday.

Michaela and Joshua

My Front Tooth

A few dayth ago I wath eating granola, and well, I took a hard bite of granola on my front tooth which wath already looth. Tho I tried to touch it and it wath more looth. I told Mommy and she checked it and it wath looth but not THAT looth. Zo she thaid that if it came out at thchool, I should put it in my thnack bag that hath peanutz zo I would not loothe it. But it never came out at thchool. I kept waiting and waiting for it to come out. And Thabbath pathed and then Thunday came. It wath a very fun day becauthe we had pathfinderz (thometimez we meet on Thundayz for fun activitiez). Thiz Thunday we did exerthizez and my tooth wath really looth and at one point it ztarted bleeding, but it didn't come out. It wath hanging by a thread.

When I got back home, I ztarted reading a book and while I wath reading, I felt a little thing in my mouth. It wath my tooth! I put my tooth under the pillow with a note that thaid that I wanted to keep my tooth and ztill get thome money. When I woke up I looked under my pillow and thaw a letter with thixty lempirath (which ith three dollarth)! I wath zo happy! But my tooth wathn't there becauthe the tooth fairy in Hondurath doethn't know English, zo she wrote me back in Thpanish and didn't leave the tooth. She thigned it "El Ratoncito," which meanth "the little mouze."

Michaela

My First X-ray

I had a bad day yesterday. I was just having a very good day until I hurt my foot. This is what I was doing: All the children slid down the slide, but I was jumping on the slide and then sliding down on it. It was fun! So this time when I landed on the slide my foot twisted all the way back and I landed on it like that. It hurt so bad! I couldn't walk on it at first, and I started to cry. Two teachers helped me (one was my teacher and the other was the man who is the English teacher because he teaches English). He carried me to the Emergency Room to check my foot. I was crying the whole time. And I wanted my Mommy or my Daddy, but they couldn't come because both of them were at a surgery with Dr. Schneider. So, the doctor, the nurse and the teachers checked my foot, and they told me if it hurt here or here. And I told them "aca" which means here. And then after that they called my Mommy and I talked to her on the phone, and my Mommy sent Mrs. Schneider to come stay with me. Then I had to get my first X-ray. So they looked at it but my foot was not broken. So I thank God that it wasn't broken. So I learned that I should just go down the slide and not jump and go down.

Joshua

Children's Day

Last Sabbath was Adventist Children's Day. And the kids in the church did the whole program, including a special song and the sermon. The children's story was so nice, because they gave us a bag with candy and crayons in it. The crayons are to color the picture they always give us when its children's story. It was really fun! We also had a lunch, which was chinese rice that had vegetables and onions. I hate onions! But I still had fun, because my friends Thamara and Ximena (said like Hee-may-nah) and Fernanda were there.  And they gave us cake and ice cream for dessert. Yum! Half of the cake was vanilla and half chocolate, so Joshua only ate half his cake, the vanilla part.
We took a nap so that at night we could go to the fair. It was so fun! They had rides for children and for adults. Each ride was 20 Lempiras, or about one dollar. We went on 4 rides and had fun. They had the fair because it was La Feria that comes to Valle once a year. I hope we get to go next year.

Michaela and Joshua

Puppies

You know, we don't have a dog, but Mommy said we could have one. Well, one day we went to go see some puppies. First, we went to Dina's house (she's my friend who has 14 dogs!). We saw three cute little puppies there. Then, we went to the "petshop" in town. The pet shop had a little Chihuahua. It was SO cute! Joshua doesn't think it was cute at all. But they also had a Siberian Husky, a white one. It was cute too! Mommy said it cost $250 dollars. But we can't get it because we don't have our house yet and Siberian Huskies are not good guard dogs. German Shepherds are the best. We are going to try to get one in Tegucigalpa, which is the capital. I can't wait to get one!

Michaela and Joshua

Our School Uniforms

Last week, Mommy got us our school uniforms and we love them! They were fabulous! They are the same as the ones the other children wear. We got both the uniforms for school and for the Adventurers Club (it's Pathfinders Club for ages 4-9). Mommy even got us the exercise pants for school. We wear the exercise pants and shirt only on Tuesdays and Fridays, because we have to do PE (physical education) on those days. The other days (Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) we wear our normal uniform to school.

Michaela and Joshua