Pool Day

In case you’re wondering, I am loosening up on the picture rule for my blog.  I think since these girls have been with us for awhile now and I know their lives and their stories, I know the important players in their lives and we have had contact with most of them.  So I am not so worried about posting their pictures anymore.  This makes me excited because I love to share their sweet faces with you!

This week we had a home office visitor!  Kay came to visit us and see what this ministry is like and what we are going here in La Ceiba.  So… we took her to the pool, of course.  Good thing she is a baby lover because J was pretty much attached to her!  They spent the morning swimming.  Side note: these swimmy floats are awesome and we would like to get $17 each to pay for each of the babies to have one since this one is really for my kiddos.  If you live in the Cary area and would like to give my mom money towards swimmy floats she just picked them up at Walmart to send to us.  Thanks!  It’s a small way to make some babies VERY happy!  They think they are little fish.

B always seems to be working when it is pool time, but we are working hard to make G loves pool days by bringing her favorite little bouncy seat and letting her swing in the hammock.  These two are doing great in PDE and we are so thankful to have them.  B has been a very responsible example to the other two younger girls and is learning a lot in our weekly Bible study.  She is very interested in what we are learning and we are working hard to teach her about grace since she has grown up with a very engrained works-based, legalistic mentality.

This one really is a kid at heart.  Adult responsibilities are still a daily struggle for her, but she LOVES being able to go to the pool and play and be a kid.  Then in the afternoon we took Kay to see her at work and she got to see her education in practice first hard at Y gave her a pedicure.  She is learning and growing and step-by-step moving towards adulthood.

It is always fun to see our ministry through someone else’s eyes and Kay was really noting how much Oneyda and the girls really act like mother and daughter.  The truth is I can see it most with C.  Oneyda said for the first time last week, after living together for a year, C came into her room at night and said… “Goodnight mommy.”  Wow.  Those are the moments that remind you that this is worth it!  I love to see these bonds forming.  We were also able to take Kay to see C’s university and the PDE store where she works.  We got to meet B there as well, but I didn’t think to take any pictures.