Bye Bye Rwanda!

Auburn Good Ol' Days Fun Run!

First Fishing Trip

Orion had his first fishing trip with Uncle David, Eric and PopPops! They went out to Lake Sawyer on a beautiful August afternoon and caught 22 perch!

Laughing out loud just looking at that face!

Now this scares me...good thing they left me at home!

This says it all!

A most interesting read...

I just finished this book and realized I didn't want it to end. I have had it sitting on my nightstand for at least 6 months and picked it up a couple of times, read a few pages and put it down again. Then after packing up the house, I picked the book up again. Why...who knows! I just know that this time - it stuck. The characters were great, the scenery divine, the description of cultures amazing.

Live Music is good for the SOUL!

loving this picture

Can you find me?

Ohhh my ohh my, our life right now just seems to get more and more chaotic. We are really on the final count down. One week from today we will be flying out. So bittersweet. So final. So surreal. But that type of writing is for another day. Last night, this is what I found in our cabinets...a sweet little boy who is finding new things to play with since all of his "got packed and went on the BIG blue truck to the airport". I love the random fly swatter on the bottom shelf.

Sunny Days at the Pool!

Tall Boy Chillin

Helping pass the time until we depart!

The Strangest Science Fair Ever

In O's backpack a couple of weeks ago was a notice about an upcoming "Science Fair". Now I put that in quotes cause I don't have much experience with Science Fairs (not even sure a title like that is supposed to be capitalized) so my frame of reference is limited to what I have seen on TV or in movies or in posting on FB. I have wracked my brain trying to remember if I participated in a Science Fair when I was a kiddo and for the life of me I can't remember - MB help me out here – I don’t think I did but then again, my brain is full of useless knowledge not things like “did I participate in a Science Fair when I was a kid?” And do you really have a Science Fair for kids that are three years old?

We get up and at 'em on an early Saturday morning and make our way to Orion's school. There are kids and parents and teachers milling around and seats set up for what I assume is the audience. We hand O over to his teacher and have a seat. Pretty soon the classes come out and line up – they sing the national anthem of Rwanda – turns out Orion knows the entire thing in Kinyarwandan – AMAZING – and then they go to their Science Fair stations. Parents are instructed to visit each station so off we go into the first classroom where we are met with little groups of kids with plates of fruits. They recite the names of the fruits for us and we move to the next table where the kids do the same thing. This was the Science Fair – kids reciting names of fruits. It was other worldly and completely strange. 

I hate to mock this banner but really...the excellency of fruit life - do they mean the excellency of fruit FOR life? 

Lining up they put their hands on the shoulders of the person in front so their lines are "neat and tidy" - Nursery Two

Talking about the fruits they have

More fruits...

stage fright...no one wanted to talk about their fruits

Watermelon and Pineapple - the fruit not the kids

Orion's table