Our Beach Experience by Kris

            Yesterday we went to a beach called Chitimba along Lake Malawi and even went swimming in it!  Our friends, the Roaches, met us there and we had fun swimming with them.  We hope and pray that we didn’t get the parasite known as Bilharzia.  This parasite goes through your skin and into your blood stream.  It is very common in most of the water in Malawi.  Ever since we got back we have been taking parasite formula made from wormwood at every meal to help prevent it.

            While there we were planning on eating at the little restaurant that is there.  Our parents ordered the meal at about 12:00, and we finally (after patiently waiting) got our food at about 2:00. It is a good thing the food tasted delicious because we didn’t enjoy waiting for our food for 2 hours.  Overall, it was fun to get away from babies and have fun with friends.

 

6 Babies!

       We now have 6 babies to help take care of!  We are very thankful to have nannies (day and night) to take care of the babies while we are doing school or are busy.  But, on the 7^th of this month our night nanny wasn’t able to come because her brother had died and she had to go to the funeral and would be gone for three days, so guess who got to take care of the babies during the night? Us!  We took turns caring for all 5 of the babies except for Bridget; our 18 month old who didn’t need cared for because she is able to sleep all night.  That night was very tiring!  The good thing was that we able to get one of our day nannies to take care of the babies during the next night, so we slept very well. 

 

BY KRIS