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Just letting you know that Brad got home yesterday afternoon.  Thanks to everyone for your prayers while he was gone.  It was an interesting trip for him –his remark is that every time he goes to Kenya, his experience is so different than the trip before. 

Jack was so anxious to have his dad home.  He started whining about missing Brad the same day that Brad left for the airport.  But for all of his misery, the kid was in his room playing XBox within a half hour of being home from the airport!  Turkey!

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This is another one of those pictures I debate about posting, because I’m afraid CPS is going to show up at my door on Monday.  It’s just – Will is obsessed with being a chef.  He wants to be a pancake chef, like in the book Curious George Makes Pancakes.  He wants to make play doh pancakes, and moon sand pancakes and paper pancakes, and coaster pancakes . . . and this morning we got really brave.  With lots of help and close supervision, Will made real pancakes – every step of the process – on his own.  He wore the paper chef hat we made him yesterday, and the kid-sized apron sweet Miss Marie made for Margaret (and Will immediately stole), and his makeshift oven mits, and that kid made some pretty good pancakes for himself and his Mama.

If you look real hard, you can see Sam in the bouncy seat on the counter.  Poor kid – he spends a lot of time in that seat. 

And just in case you’re wondering – Will does have a back up plan, should the whole chef thing fall through.  He has decided he would also like to be a delivery man.  We have to keep a stack of cardboard boxes in his room lately so he can practice delivering packages to whomever is home at the time.  He has a cool hat for that, too.

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I thought the up side of Brad being out of town for 10 days would be having the bed all to myself.  I do like to sleep diagonally on occasion.  Unfortunately, I’ve been sharing my space with cats and kids pretty regularly.  I’m glad Winnie  can’t jump up on the bed anymore.  Otherwise, I’d probably have to move to the couch.

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Today is Wednesday, and we are half way through Brad’s trip.  I’m tired, so you get this post in a list form.  Good stuff guys.  Good stuff.

1.  Aus & Co. are in China and they have their boy!   He is a CUTIE!!!  Go read their blog and see why we love those crazy friends of ours so much!

2.  Sam has struggled and struggled to sleep alone in his room.  Three nights in a row, he woke up at least 5 times between 7:30 PM bedtime and 5:30 AM.  The fourth night he woke up 3 times.  Not cool.  But last night, he woke up to eat at 10 PM – then slept until 6:45 AM.  Yay Sammy!!!  Sleeping baby = happy mommy! 

3.  The speech therapist was so excited to tell me that Will can now make a “D” sound!  We’ll get there, one phoneme at a time! 

4.  Jack’s bedroom is 100% done.  Curtains, lamps, furniture, pictures on the wall, etc.  Done!

5.  Margaret figured out that if she puts her spelling words to the tune of “BINGO” or “Mary Had a Little Lamb” she can get them right every time.  Can’t wait to see her spelling test this Friday!

6.  I didn’t talk to Brad today.  Jack did.  He was impressed when Brad told him that the police carry “AK’s”.  That’s all I got from their conversation. Then I had to yell at Jack to get his shoes on for school.

That’s it for now.  Sam is awake, so it must be time for his bedtime snack.  I took this picture today.  I like his little piggies hanging out in the foreground.

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Brad and the guys had a rough day in Garissa today.   It’s hard for me to explain exactly what happened.  We were planning to do a video chat around 8AM.  He never showed up.  A few hours later I got a message that there was some sort of problem.  There wasn’t much more information until just after noon, when Brad instant messaged me from his hotel. 

Here is a quote from Chris’s Facebook page:

Cyber update – long story short we received a lot of pressure today by the local Somali Muslims so we had to leave the area but only after we had the Cyber up and running and with the locals trained and able to run themselves. Pray protection and for this Cyber to be used as a light in a very dark and hard area. We are… staying around for phone or email support reasons for the next day or two.

According to Brad, the locals were not happy about 4 white Americans and wanted them out.  Fortunately, our guys were given the opportunity to exit on their own – and they did just that.  We IM’d with Brad just as he was going to bed, so we know for sure he is safe.

Again, stealing from Chris’s FB page, here are some photos from the cyber cafe.

You can also keep up with Brad via his Twitter updates to the right on this page.  Click on the links to see his photos. 

Please continue to lift Chris, Paul, Brad, and the intern who is with them (whose name I don’t know) to be protected while they are in this volatile area and to have a safe trip back to Nairobi later this week.  Please pray for the Cyber Cafe – that it will be protected & that it will be successful.  For those of you who were praying with us today, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it.  Thank you.

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