The New Boat House!

 One of the large ongoing projects that Jacob has been helping with lately has been pouring cement and filling gabion baskets for the new boat house. Right now we have three missionary families who work on an island 80 miles away. And we don't have a place to store their boat. But this is about to change! There are also many other tribal groups on islands nearby that want missionaries to come and share 'God's talk'. So please pray for more missionaries to come!

 The boat is parked on the grass on the right until the boat house is completed.

Fun activities for Jonathan!

 He loves to use the swifter! We found one his size in the mission barrel. :)  (A place where people put things they don't need so that other people can take them and use them)

Lately, when I ask Jonathan to smile he makes this funny face. :)

 Playing the recorder, or should I say blowing into the recorder. :)

 Making dad wear a hat while typing stories together. :)

Jonathan loves playing in the pool .He doesn't sit down. He just splashes and throws all his toys out of the pool. Then he goes to get all his toys and throws them all back in. Great fun!

 Playing in the pool with dad!

 Feeding our neighbors Hawk while they are away... 

 It eats raw fish.

 Playing with the airplane puzzle!

Yummy food...

 We were excited to see a watermelon at the market. So we were brave and adventurous and bought it! And when we cut it open we found a strange color... an orange watermelon! It was good but not as sweet as the red watermelons.

 Jonathan didn't like it too much.

But Jonathan loves tortillas! And he loves to help me make them. :)

Jonathan misses Goroka...

 He wants to wear his Highlands bilem cap and carry his Highlands bilem. :)

 His little tiny skinned knee grew and grew, despite our efforts to keep it clean and covered all the time! Don't worry, it is almost completely healed now after antibiotics! But we definitely learned our lesson... always used super antibiotic cream on every sore and cut in this climate!

 Playing hockey with the new stick that dad made for him!

Enjoying the last day of our break!

Jonathan enjoyed watching the cows every morning just outside the guest house! They look a little different then our North American cows. :)

 Jonathan and Jacob enjoyed playing roller hockey together. Although Jonathan didn't roll except if Dad was carrying him. :)

 Jonathan enjoyed running and Jacob enjoyed watching. :)

 And I enjoyed taking pictures. :)

 Jonathan enjoyed the slide!

 Jonathan and I both enjoyed the swings!

 Jonathan loved the trampoline! 

 Heading out of the Highlands, through the clouds...

 Heading back to Wewak after our relaxing break!

Jonathan didn't enjoy the plane ride at first, but as long as he got to hug mum he was ok. :)

 We enjoyed spending PNG's Independence day in Goroka. The NTM Center planned a huge event, starting with the high school band playing a couple of pieces including the PNG National anthem. 

 Then we watched a parade of many different tribal groups as well as the NTM missionary kids floats. This group is known as the 'Mud Men'.

 Jonathan seemed to enjoy watching everything!

 But he didn't want to get too close to these guys!

 Jonathan almost had a horse ride too, but the line was too long and he had to take a nap, maybe next time!