New Friends

A new friend in Overland Park, Sarah, who also fostered in Antigua, hooked us up with a Guatemalan gal here, Mayra, who runs a tour company in Antigua. Mayra's family does airport shuttles, tours of the area, and trips around Guatemala, and is just all around very helpful. They also run a feeding program that feeds between 40 and 50 kids for lunch every Saturday. Mayra said they use some of the money from her tour company and the rest her family just pitches in. Erick and I had the chance to go with them today to help. Her dad, Jose, picked us up along the route through a few other communities picking up the kids. When we got to Mayra's house, her mother, Melinda, and two other ladies were busy making hamburger patties, rice w/ veggies, pico, tortillas, and koolaid. Jose had a mini "Sunday school" type talk then the kids ate and went to play while we cleaned up. Delicious food!

Erick's new things are stopping at the door to jiggle the doorknobs, flicking the light switches, picking up rocks and trying to eat them, and he loves to go up and down steps. Out in the street I'll stand in one spot pivot as he twirls me in a circle--on the curb, off the curb, on the curb, off...gets me dizzy! He took his first eyebrow to the pavement this morning as he got a little carried away and let go of my hand. Nothing a bottle and a rocking chair couldn't fix. My next projects are getting nails trimmed and hair rinsed without a major screamfest. All in a mom's day's work!