Easter....Guatemalan style

Has another week gone by??? Time is really flying. My baby turned 8 months this week. It’s crazy to think it’s been that long already. I visited my cousin’s new baby today and it hit me that my baby isn’t really a baby anymoreL. This has been a nonstop week. It seems like even though we aren’t working or going to school yet we are busier than ever, but soon we’ll have those things on our plate as well.

Colton got a cold this week, not too bad but his nose was just really runny. One of the boxes we sent were all his diapers, but it hasn’t come yet so I had to buy him some new diapers. Unfortunately these diapers were no good for him… the first diaper we put on him gave him a bad bad rash, his bottom was so red and even had white dots all over and we couldn’t even touch him. That night I left him without a diaper and put a bunch of medicine on him so next morning he was still red but didn’t cry as bad anymore. It was sad to see him hurt so much. Other than that he is doing great, he is getting to know people really quick and is happier now when he isn’t with me, he is eating almost everything and more and more every day.

Layla keeps dancing and singing, she gets a big audience every time she performs haha. She has also started to think that because we aren’t in Arizona she can do whatever she pleases, she will learn better after spending some quality time in time out. People here think I’m the worst parent for making her go into time out and being so strict with her especially one of my sisters who really gets mad at me for doing that and wants to know exactly what she has done to deserve time out.. my answer every time “nothing you need to worry about” lol. On the other hand my dad has expressed his feelings on how happy he feels whenever he sees the kids pray and doing things like that. My dad does catholic meetings every week with the neighborhood and this past week Mike, Xavion and Layla went with them. I had to stay home with Colton. When they came back my dad came to tell me how happy he was that Layla offered to say one of the prayers and how he told everybody to follow their example because what they were doing was exactly what Jesus wants all of us to do.

Xavion keeps feeding the turkeys and still loves riding his bike. His Spanish is already getting better and he isn’t as shy trying to speak to people. Everyone is really patient with him and they help him out a lot. He loves playing soccer with his cousins and Mike. He also really enjoyed a ride with Mike on a moto this week. After an exciting and near fatal attempt at driving a moto a few years ago, Mike borrowed my sister Yani’s moto and had no problem getting the hang of it. Now he can borrow it to go into town before his beloved truck gets here, which should be soon.

Easter is celebrated here for a whole week…Semana Santa. Everybody is off  of school and work some starting since Thursday and some on Monday. We planned a bunch of activities for this week to keep all of the kids occupied. Yesterday was the first day all of the kids were off school so we had mix and match day but everybody focused on just having 2 different shoes haha. We also had a bunch of activities like musical chairs, duck duck goose, red rover and ended up with a water fight followed by soccer. Pictures to follow!.... also 2 big customs during Easter here are making bread and fruity honey. The making of the bread started Friday and will end on Tuesday, one family each day takes turns and makes their bread in a special oven. Its soooooooo yummy especially hot right out of the oven. 

One of the mornings this week, my parents house surrounded by trees. one funny thing that happened this week... because it was so foggy... i was talking to Xavion and you could see my breath. when i see  him trying to run away from me and covering his face with both of his hands.. i asked him what is it matter? he responded.. there is fire coming out of your mouth.. he thought i was turning into a dragon lol

one rainy day, the kids enjoying the water while everyone else was hiding from it lol. 

 

playing soccer under the rain..

 

still playing soccer hours later.

 

us cheering for the players

this is the oven where they bake the bread. they start the fire hours before they start kneading the bread so it stays hot the whole day. 

Mike preparing the oven to start putting bread in it. they make their own broom with flowers to swipe all the sticks to the side. 

 

 Kneading the bread!

 this is part of all the bread that we made. the first day we made a total of  75 pounds of flour

bread all done and ready to eat!

Mike loved the bread, he really enjoyed it and ate like 5 breads right as they came out of the oven. 

This is how Colton takes a bath... whenever Mike gives him a bath he gets an audience because guys never do stuff like that here haha. 

Layla drank some rice drink then she got so mad that while throwing a fit rice started coming out of her nose lol.... i had to take a pic before talking to her lol 

Layla always asks people to pull their pants up when they are showing their crack in this case she decided to cover it for him lol. we happened to get a pic right at the time she was doing it lol.

Everybody getting Mike. 

Everybody getting Xavion... and he loved it like you can see in the pic 

After we were done with our water fight. 

Everybody loves Mike's magic tricks... he did a magic trick for my grandma and she called him a warlock  lol

Mike learning how to drive a scooter. 

These are all the kids that live here... we were missing  6 more that only come during the weekend. 

playing freeze dance

playing duck duck goose

Musical chairs

 Mix and match day.

 

we are having a lot of fun here in Guatemala! we have a lot more activities planed for this coming week to enjoy that everybody stays home. We miss you all and love you. Have an awesome week.