The many faces of Noah

 He smiles!!!

 He wails...

 He watches his beautiful shoes.

Good Night, Noah.

Last week in pictures

Life is getting fun, and really BUSY around here. To start with, this past week began the first of (we hope) a weekly Hymn Sing/Bible Study at our house on Tuesday nights. :) We were really encouraged to have 8 young people last Tuesday. 

We've started school back for the year, included in which is that the kids are learning how to swim. We try, weather permitting, to get to the pool twice a week for about 40 min. (Also in this pic, you can see Ariel, our neighbor who hangs out over here quite a bit working on his English and playing with Nathanael.)

Glory and Levi started playing soccer with a group in Shell and are both seeming to enjoy the practices. (Also twice a week). They are in the same age category, which is really nice; not only for them to get to play together, but more so for their parents, who are glad not to have kids playing on different days. ;) 

To finish up with, the church has started a kids' Bible Club on Saturday mornings,
which we are enjoying being part of.

I'd better go to bed now because tomorrow we start all over again. :D

Happy Birthday!

...Between driving back and forth to Quito, we celebrated 3 birthdays in late August! Taylor's was first...and I guess no one took any pictures. We did, however, have peach cobbler and go out to eat at a grill type restaurant. (and if you'll notice, in the picture of Glory's birthday, you can still see "Happy Birthday Papa!" decorations up. :) Daniel and Glory got to go out to eat as well, picking pizza and fried chicken, respectively. Taylor and I always roll our eyes when we see Dan's pizza restaurant, which they oddly named, "Hut Cheese". Really?! "Hut Cheese"? Oh well. Such is English in Ecuador some times. :)  The kids both wanted to help make their own birthday cakes - Glory would have made hers by herself, except I wanted to play too.! We love you, big kids!