Today was Brynnie’s third birthday. I can’t believe our little girl is already 3!! We sure love her and are thankful for her!
So today she brought cupcakes to her playgroup/preschool and then later when the big kids came home we had some friends come over and we sang and had cake. We had one of the MAF carpenters build us a play kitchen for Brynnie. I was rather surprised at how enormous it turned out… But she’s thrilled with it!
Incidentally, we are currently in the month of Ramadan. The local mosques are definitely louder and doing their thing more often, but as we live far enough away, it is just a sound heard in the distance and not the sleep/conversation disturbing cacophony we experienced in Bandung. Aside from the fact that the local supermarket is selling tons of plastic containers of cookies (which are eaten all day every day with friends and relatives at the end of the fasting period) and there are sales everywhere on clothing (which you buy for your family), you wouldn’t really notice that there was something different this month.
Little Nelfika got her last dose of Zithromax on Sunday night. That day she still had goop coming out of her ear. So now we just need to wait for the antibiotics to do their thing which hopefully they do. It was funny because I asked the mom on Sunday if Nelfika had “demam” (fever) that day. And she said,”No, but she was hot so I gave her some of that medicine (Tylenol) and she got cool again.” I tried to explain that “hot” and “fever” were the same thing, but I don’t think she got it. This family is from the village that we went to for family conference and so their knowledge of the Indonesian language isn’t that great. This can cause for some misunderstandings… Like when we asked Nios’ brother to TRIM our trees last week, he basically destroyed them… It’ll probably be a year before they look half decent again….
On Saturday we noticed that our tap water was tasting kind of funny. We have been using a well that was drilled in our yard for about two months now. The water is pumped up into two big orange containers on top of a very tall metal tower. From there it goes into our house and our neighbours house. So Hugo climbed up the tower and looked in the orange containers. YUCK! They were filthy! So today a couple MAF guys came to clean them. Unfortunately we weren’t told ahead of time that this (the dirtiness) would happen…. So the two MAF guys started prepping things and then I had to go bring Brynnie to her playgroup so I left. When I came back, they were using a Vileda type mop (not available here but brought from Bandung) to clean the inside of the tanks along with the brush that my helper normally uses to clean the bathroom…. You can imagine my reaction…. As I arrived, one of the guys was leaving to go and get some new equipment that they could use instead of using mine…. Now they are in the process of painting the outside of the tanks to help keep the sun from heating them up. I hope it helps! I should mention that we have an alternate source of clean drinking water from another organization that we can “borrow” if needed… Thankfully…
Incidentally, we are currently in the month of Ramadan. The local mosques are definitely louder and doing their thing more often, but as we live far enough away, it is just a sound heard in the distance and not the sleep/conversation disturbing cacophony we experienced in Bandung. Aside from the fact that the local supermarket is selling tons of plastic containers of cookies (which are eaten all day every day with friends and relatives at the end of the fasting period) and there are sales everywhere on clothing (which you buy for your family), you wouldn’t really notice that there was something different this month.
Little Nelfika got her last dose of Zithromax on Sunday night. That day she still had goop coming out of her ear. So now we just need to wait for the antibiotics to do their thing which hopefully they do. It was funny because I asked the mom on Sunday if Nelfika had “demam” (fever) that day. And she said,”No, but she was hot so I gave her some of that medicine (Tylenol) and she got cool again.” I tried to explain that “hot” and “fever” were the same thing, but I don’t think she got it. This family is from the village that we went to for family conference and so their knowledge of the Indonesian language isn’t that great. This can cause for some misunderstandings… Like when we asked Nios’ brother to TRIM our trees last week, he basically destroyed them… It’ll probably be a year before they look half decent again….
On Saturday we noticed that our tap water was tasting kind of funny. We have been using a well that was drilled in our yard for about two months now. The water is pumped up into two big orange containers on top of a very tall metal tower. From there it goes into our house and our neighbours house. So Hugo climbed up the tower and looked in the orange containers. YUCK! They were filthy! So today a couple MAF guys came to clean them. Unfortunately we weren’t told ahead of time that this (the dirtiness) would happen…. So the two MAF guys started prepping things and then I had to go bring Brynnie to her playgroup so I left. When I came back, they were using a Vileda type mop (not available here but brought from Bandung) to clean the inside of the tanks along with the brush that my helper normally uses to clean the bathroom…. You can imagine my reaction…. As I arrived, one of the guys was leaving to go and get some new equipment that they could use instead of using mine…. Now they are in the process of painting the outside of the tanks to help keep the sun from heating them up. I hope it helps! I should mention that we have an alternate source of clean drinking water from another organization that we can “borrow” if needed… Thankfully…
2 comments:
Happy Birthday Brynne! What a cool kitchen...my girls would love to come for a visit and play house with her! God bless you all in the year ahead. Water issues. Sounds like the orange stained, smelly water issues at our house. (-:
Happy birthday Brynnie!!! That is such a fun play kitchen! Natalie will have to come over and play when we are in Sentani sometime =)
Now, that reminds me, Natalie's birthday is coming up! So hard to believe our girls are turning 3 already, isnt it!!!
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