Sophia wanting her new friend to come play with her. Sophia did not like that the girl did not speak Chinese and asked me to teach her some of the minority language. I told her I did not know much, and she insisted that she needed to learn it....possible.
A group of men showed up to visit.
David's old teacher and now our family friend, with his niece who is about 4 months younger than Sophia.
Bella chats with 'uncle' and Tobin chills out in the corner, you can see his chunky legs
wood piles and clothes drying
my fave: the water buffalo...the girls LOVED going to look at him too. We explained to Sophia that they love to be in the water and maybe we should call her a water Sophia, since she does too, she laughed and laughed at this!
they had two pigs, quite cute. Sophia and Bella immediately dubbed one 'Wilbur' and I saw a big dead spider still hanging from a cobweb, which became 'Charlotte' which was fitting since Charlotte does die in the end of the story...the girls loved this too. (Sophia still has not stopped talking about raising our own chickens 'so that we don't have to buy eggs anymore.' Good point, girl, but where would we put them?
David found out why all the men stopped by, they wanted to buy this family's liquor, rice liquor, must be the best in the village or something...
Bella was refusing to look at the camera, she even put a hand in front of her face as if all the paparazzi was just too much, and she giggled on...
Some other friends of our friends came over, they were incredibly nice and loved on our kids so well
There go the men, off with their liquor...
Bella ate her weight in pineapple, and everyone thought her spunk quite hilarious, though it often turns into rebellion, not so funny...
the kitchen. Sophia really wanted to help prep the meal, which happened to be the best village meal I had ever eaten, four different dishes and I ate from each one, usually there is just about 2 that I can eat (either because it is too spicy or has something raw in it).
Eh zuo, the girl, loved talking to Tobin. He did great...sucked his thumb and went to sleep for his nap, then woke up happy. The folks were amazed: 'we have to carry our kids on our back to get them to sleep.' Yeah, but they also don't have the nasty thumb habit...
Are these the biggest woks you have ever seen?
more food on the stove...
driving in the living room, what fun
Sophia was shy at first with everyone watching, but once people stopped paying attention, she started dancing...I knew she was itching to get her groove on, she is pretty good at the local dance.
Both our girls love the village...they had a big creek near their house that was running strong with orange clay water, we started calling it orange juice. I took the girls down to where it met another little river, and we touched the water a bit. With it being rainy season, these waters were flowing fast. 'uncle' met us on our way back to his house because he forgot to tell us that the bathrooms run off into the creeks and rivers. Oh yeah. I definitely should have remembered that. We promptly washed our hands a few times.
This was a great visit with friends, we did not get back until after 8 p.m. and we all slept until 8 a.m. (except Tobin (and me), who woke up at 5:45 like he has done consistently now...rice cereal is coming soon for you boy!).
