Langdon Kids

Langdon Kids
The Langdon Puppet Team--Andrew, Matthew, Alina, Bridget, Kris & Sarah

Friday, April 20, 2007

The Poisonous "Worm" (and Toad)

             Yesterday, when Jared was working in the garden, he saw out of the corner of his eye, a small slender thing about 6 inches long.  Because he thought it was a worm, he bent down to catch it and found that it was actually a snake!  So he brought it up to the driveway so that everybody could see it.  On the trip up, the snake had indigestion and puked up a frog!  The frog was about 1 ½ inches long and was wider than the snake itself!  We took a few pictures of the snake and killed it and burned it up.

            Later the same day we found a poisonous toad on our kitchen window (on the outside).  It was about 3 inches long and 3 inches wide!  We couldn’t figure out how it had climbed all the way up 4 feet of cement and then climb all the way up to the top of the window!  Well, our cook said that if I spray it with doom it will die.  I didn’t think so but tried it anyways.  It didn’t die.  After attempt 1, I tried attempt 2 which required knocking it off of the window and killing it.  I knocked it off of the window with no trouble, but as you know this was a poisonous toad so it started inflating itself which caused its poison to begin appearing on its back!

Our cook decided that I wasn’t qualified to kill it so he proceeded to kill it himself!  He used the stick and whacked the toad as hard as he could.  Since the toad was inflated, when he whacked it, it made squeaking sounds as the air escaped from its body!  Finally, after a few hits the toad finally went stiff and died.   

                          

 

 

 

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Our 2 Latest Editions to the Nursery

            During the last week of February, we received 2 more babies!  The first was a 2 month old baby girl and weighed only 1.8 Kg’s (about 4 pounds)!  This has been the smallest baby we have received.  Her name is Yamikani.  The other baby we received was 5 months old and appears to be normal sized.  His name is McDonald.   Interesting name isn’t it? We have nicknamed him Big Mac. 

            Our nursery is now at its limit which is 8 babies not including Bridget.  In our Mzuzu nursery we have had 12 babies.  So what about the other 4?  One has died (Jacob), 2 have been adopted (Leah and Bridget), and another has been returned to its family (Blessings).  We hope to help many more orphan babies that need true care.

 

Kris