Santa Cena

A few weeks ago, the teachers at Sabbath School gave us a little booklet to study about the Last Supper, which is "Santa Cena" in Spanish. Every Sabbath, they asked us questions about the story, and they asked us if we did the activities in our booklet. We've learned a lot about it now.





So last Sabbath, they told us that we were going to have Communion in the afternoon. So in the afternoon, we came together and we sang songs. After that, we got into pairs and went outside and washed each other's feet, just like the disciples did in the Bible. Jesus was trying to teach them to be humble. My partner was my best friend Laura. Her brother is Joshua's best friend. After that we prayed with each other.

Then we went and sat down in the church. Then the Pastor came and told us we would eat the bread, which stands for Jesus' body.





Then they passed out the "wine" which was really juice, which stands for Jesus' blood. Then we prayed. Jesus did this because he wanted his disciples to remember Him when He left them. Every time they ate bread and drank juice, they would think about Him.

I liked the Santa Cena really much.

Michaela
 

Jonathan Walks!

Our little brother Jonathan is already 10 and half months. He can crawl very fast and get into everything.

But just these last few days I started helping to stand him up, and he stood up for 20 seconds one time! He started to take little tiny steps, and now he can take up to 16 steps!

I can't wait until he can walk. He is so cute, his hair has little curls in the back.

I love Jonathan so much!

Michaela

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day was an extra special day because we had our favorite lunch with peas and macaroni and cheese, and because Mrs. Judy Hart sent us chocolate covered marshmallow hearts which were so very yummy.

It was also fun because we made cards for all our friends. These are some of the people I made cards for:
Ana Sofia
Thamara
Fernanda
Ximena
Laura

Joshua made just 1 for his best friend Teddy Lee (Laura's brother).

We both have friends. I love Valentine's Day.


Michaela

My 8th Birthday

On January 18, 2011, it was my birthday. I turned 8 years old! It was a Hello Kitty party. I invited 30 children to my party, all my friends from church. Mommy made a Hello Kitty cake. She made it with cupcakes all around, and a little wafer cookie house and fence on top of the cake. It had a little Hello Kitty doll in front of the house. I loved it!

We played a ton of games outside. And we had a lot of fun!























Then we did the Pinata...it was a Hello Kitty Pinata, as tall as me! I got a lot of candy when it broke.












I also got a lot of presents. My favorite was my Jessie from Toy Story outfit.

It was a great day!

Michaela

Diego Danger Daniel

On January 6, it was Kings' Day. Kings' Day is really "Dia de los Reyes Magos". In some countries, kids put out their shoes with hay and water for the camels of the Three Kings. In the morning, they find presents in their shoes! So we put our shoes out. And in the morning, we found gifts, books and a Hello Kitty doll, and a new 3-D Toy Story shirt for Joshua.

Then Mommy came back from running and said there was one more present outside. We went outside and Mommy said to look in a box. And we looked and there was a tiny little puppy. He was SOOO cute. He's only a few weeks old. Jonathan kept wanting to grab him.

We looked for dog names on the computer. We found some funny names! We chose the name Diego Danger Daniel. We named him Diego after Dora's cousin because he likes animals, and because it's a good spanish and english name. We named him Danger because he's going to be a guard dog, because he's little now but he's going to be huge like a real guard dog. He's a German Shepherd.  Our cousin Aidan is also named Aidan Danger. We named him Daniel because he has to have a Bible name.

We like our puppy!

Joshua and Michaela

Our Cousins Visit

After Grandma and Grandpa left, our cousins came to visit. They are not REALLY our cousins...they are our Daddy's cousins! Their Daddy is our Grandma's little brother. His name is Uncle Norman. His wife's name is Aunt Kristin. And their children are Ava Lauren and Kristanna. Ava Lauren is really tall, but she's only 4 years old (almost 5) and Kristanna is 6 years old.

They came to Honduras on a Maranatha trip for families. They spent some days building something somewhere else in Honduras, and then they came to visit us. We had a lot of fun!

Joshua and Michaela

The Zoo

One day, with Grandma and Grandpa, we went to the Zoo. The Zoo was kind of fun. It was a bit messy, not like the zoos in America. It had some animals, most of which live in Honduras, like owls, snakes, monkeys, deer, and even a jaguar. 

That's when Jonathan learned to say his first word other than Mama and Dada and Papa and Baba, and Mas which means more in Spanish. We were looking at the jaguar when Jonathan said “Cat.” We had never taught him that, so we thought maybe he didn't really know the word. But when we got back home, Jonathan saw our cat, and he said “Cat” (like this “Cah”) and he kept on saying it, every time he saw our cat, even when we gave him a toy cat. That's still his favorite word.

I would like to go back to the zoo again some day, even if it's not the most beautiful Zoo.

Michaela, Joshua, and Jonathan