Happy Thanksgiving

We were able to celebrate Thanksgiving this year with 20 + friends and coworkers at our new home in Lima. It was such a blessing to be able to host the dinner and spend the evening eating some Thanksgiving favorites and celebrating with our family away from home! Here are a few pictures from the evening.

Lauren (friend and coworker) cutting the amazing turkey she prepared for the dinner!

Cael's buddy, Luis (friend and coworker), helping him eat his Thanksgiving meal and giving mom and dad a break!

Angela (friend whose husband works with FH) and her two boys making their way through the line.

The kids had a great time playing at the coffee table.

Left: Luis, Karina, Cristian, and Lauren

Left: Janina, Kami, Priscilla, and Mesha (friends and coworkers)

Left: Luke, Ryan, and Paul (friends and coworkers...and husband)

Grand Escape

This is a typical scene at our house around 9 in the morning. Cael usually wakes up, eats his breakfast, and is ready to go outside and play until it is time for lunch. However, if I need to get something done, he usually isn't too forgiving, resulting in him hanging on the door, trying to get out! So far he hasn't figured out how to open the door on his own, which I'm not encouraging either!

Baking Cookies

This past Saturday, me and three other girls living and working with FH here in Lima, went to our language teacher's house to show her and her sister how to bake cookies American style! It is difficult to make the common cookies you would make in the states, because you cannot find brown sugar here in Peru. It is even difficult to find molasses to try and make your own kind of brown sugar substitute. However, after living here in Peru for the past few years we have learned to stock up on brown sugar from the states...it is a staple on the list of "what to bring down". Several small packages of MMs were also donated to the project to help flavor the cookies. Therefore, we were able to make monster cookies, sugar cookies, and a chocolate brownie cheesecake as a treat!

It was a long afternoon, but I had a great time hanging with the girls! Paul was gracious enough to take Cael out for a boys afternoon so that I could have the afternoon off. What a sweet guy!!

Me and Irma (pronounced ear-ma), our language teacher

Irma and her sister, Elsa setting out the monster cookies

Mesha and Kami helping out on cleanup

Me and Elsa helping Esther, the chocolate brownie cheesecake expert.

Irma, Mesha, and Kami cutting out sugar cookies

First Crush

Cael seems to have a little crush on our Swiss neighbor's daughter, Katarina. Every time she comes outside to play with her two older brothers, Cael runs up to say hi and usually tries to give her a hug. It has been really cute to see. Here are a couple pictures of Kati sharing her cookies with Cael yesterday.

Little Man #2

We had our 6 month doctor's appointment this week and are excited to say that our second little guy is healthy and growing. He weighs, based on his measurements, almost 2.5 lbs. He is due on February 10th and we are looking forward to meeting him. Here is an ultrasound picture of him trying to suck his fingers.