Bare Hands

The other day Johnny caught and killed a pretty large Tarantula outside of our house. Roxy of course found it and tried to eat it. TJ was asking how Johnny killed it. I told him with his bare hands. BJ who overheard the conversation held both of his hands up in claws and asked "Johnny has Bear hands?"

Waterfall

Here is our family at the Waterfalls that were just outside of Port-Salut. We had read about them on a website and are so glad that we decided to go check them out. 

Check out this view, does it get any better than this? This was one of those "Haiti is beautiful" moments. 

CT jumping off the waterfall. Quote from CT "When Rachel was jumping off I was so scared for her and when I jumped off it felt so magical, it felt like you were jumping off Mt. Everest and then you hit the water and it knocked the senses back into you. It was the best thing I have done in Haiti."

Even the little boys got into it running to the water and laying themselves down.

One problem is that it was down a steep, slippery hill. Not to worry there were plenty of Haitians around to carry our children. It was all I could do to still breath as I walked up the hill, but this guy ran up barefoot with two of my kids. Thank you Haiti for making such strong men!

Baby Hannah Update

This little girl has done a 180 in the last few days. She is laughing, talking and my personal favorite, giving kisses. When she is feeling really happy she will grab my face and plant a huge open mouth kiss on me. I love it. 

SF and Hannah.

IS and Hannah at the beach.

We had to buy a basket on the beach for Hannah to sleep in as the night before she started rolling over and I did not want her to roll on the sand or anything. 

She is still using her feeding tube, but is starting to take more food by mouth. However, when she does eat by mouth she gets a really bad cough. I am really worried about her aspirating.

Maybe the worst picture ever of me, but I love her "oh I am so happy to see you face."

The Feeding Clinic

Just some pictures from the Feeding Clinic this week.

I love the ladies who cook the food, they do a beautiful job and work so hard.

This week I bought the beans without Roselie, the ladies quickly informed me I had bought "bad beans". Oops. The kids spent a while picking the "bad beans" out of the pile. 

Johnny, sharing the spiritual message.

Some of the kids eating. You know what I love about it, I never hear; she got more, he got his first, his has more sauce, mine is cold, give me more etc, etc. Just respectful, grateful kids. So nice. 

This is always one of my favorite scenes. The big kids helping the little's. I love it!

The fish head Rachel found in her beans and rice. No comment. 

Baby Hannah Update

Baby Hannah has not been doing very well. Refusing to eat, loosing weight like crazy, having high fevers, a UTI etc. We think she has really severe reflux which is the root of all her issues, so the doctor decided to have us use a feeding tube in her nose until the reflux meds kick in.  

Because of her severe reflux she needs to be held upright for about 45min after each feed. Which means a lot of holding since she eats every hour. 

New Security

For any of you who may be concerned about our security around here, not to fear, we have these two. 

BJ is the tough guy around here, check out the picture of him and Roxy.
The other day he was hitting Roxy, again, and I told him I was going to sell him to the zoo (I know not nice, but I did) and he promptly said to me "then I will hit the animals".

Mothers Day

Here is what Mothers Day looks like at our house. I had to put our little lady, Hannah, into the picture because right now she is living with us.

With all of us laying on the floor, Roxy was of course in the middle of it all.