Thursday, August 24, 2017

The Bike On The Fence and Other News

It’s hard to know where to start and stop with this post, life has been beautiful and full. I’ll give the abbreviated snapshot.

The baby we mentioned earlier in a prayer request is with her mom and dad in Addis Ababa at the CURE Hospital. They have an appointment scheduled for a surgery for the sweet baby girl on Monday morning. Please pray with us for the doctors, the baby and her parents. I can’t stop thinking about the baby! Pray especially for the anesthesia to have no negative effects as the baby is only one month old.

We’ve continued to have a stream of visitors through the gate. We have popular babies.

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Tiger loves other kids. This picture is him trying to make friends with five-year-old Nigoos, who was a little unsure of so much contact.

We have also had some significant drama involving a robbery of a bike (everything is being settled). Jon said if he were to be in a courtroom, he would want an Awi man on his side. 

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After a week of sleuthing by some employees, the bike was hanging over the fence one morning. Such a long story but this cracked us up.

A neighbor boy was badly bitten by a dog (rabies is always a possibility). Jon went with the mom, dad and child on Tuesday to Bahir Dar to try to find a rabies treatment medicine. Praise God, after a day in hospitals, they found it and instead of the 16 shots in the stomach we helped a family with before, this is only a five-shot series in the shoulder. Hallelujah!

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The father has been to Bahir Dar before and enjoyed showing his wife and son the sights. 

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While the father and mother waited at a clinic for an appointment for the mother (trying to maximize time in the city), Jon and Hayamanot went to a barbershop. I love the cuts. 

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An early morning chat, looking through pictures with Imabet. There were several questions about the previous post on the injera-making session with Imabet, it is very sour, Significantly more than a typical sour dough. For me, I love it with the stews but its not my preference to eat it by itself.

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And, we have two very cute babies.

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Both love to do things that make us laugh and they tolerated this mask.

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Jon’s been able to get some trials started at the project and done some farmer visits. The woman pictured is a new employee at the 5 F’s and she has amazing initiative.

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There have been some hikes to farmer’s homes who have done various trials. Eliza has been able to accompany and on this hike, the girls were able to go too, though it got so muddy on the paths, they were carried as it was impassable. 

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The girls set up a photo shoot with their baby dolls and asked me to photograph. So adorable these two girls and all their ideas.

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Speaking of the twins and their ideas. :)

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Hiking up the hill with Eliza

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J had a sore eye, it wasn’t an injury that really needed any attention, so I kept about my business. Soon, she was walking around with injera taped to her eye. A home remedy at it’s finest. 

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A Canadian family living in Bahir Dar came to visit us for a day and help with the house wiring and generator, thank you Funks!

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Happy babies in the morning. They are both really sweet kiddos. Miss T has had really challenging nights. Like, really bad. If I told you, you would chastise me for letting her be in bad habits but in the night when I am so tired, I DON’T CARE, in my groggy state I just do whatever it takes so she will sleep and I can too.

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On mornings with power, the kiddos congregate on this rug by the heater while I shower and Jon makes breakfast.

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Shepherd boys playing Mancala with false coffee beans. The board is a series of holes etched into the rock on the mountain top. Amazingly resourceful and funny because…

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Our first week back, Jon and the girls were up and played the same board…with sheep turds.

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A cool cave to climb through.

 

Our family is back and we praise God we are feeling settled. He has been gracious.Thank you for your life-giving prayers.

 

4 comments:

Shari said...

Wow! I love all these great pictures of the kids! Sheep poo? Seriously? I love how God gives you the grace to make gross things fun (and protects you from serious illnesses)!

We love you bunches!

Unknown said...

Thank you for sharing your daily lives with us Amy. I always learn something from your blog - the multitude of uses of sheep poo for instance πŸ˜†πŸ˜†πŸ˜†!

bri said...

I hear ya on the sleeping at nights. Greyson is almost eight months and still doesn't sleep good!

smw said...

there are so many great things in this post, but i too am very amused by the bike incident. :)