The Cement/Drain Project

It all started with digging... because the water was going into all the apartments. Jonathan and Linda had a great time helping with the digging process.

Home made drain pipe...PVC Pipe with holes drilled into it. The kids loved to pretend they were helping!

Finding crushed stone in a third world country is exhausting! It was quite a miracle actually that Jacob found this for his drain project.

Phase two of the Drain project - building a wall to redirect the rain water away from the building.

The cement pouring begins!

They were pouring the cement right next to our house... directly in front of the window of the kids room!

Finishing touches... Jonathan loves to help!

Next cement pour... prep 

Cutting wire to strengthen the concrete. 

And when it started to rain we had to go out to see if it was working... and it was!

Fun Container Items arrived by Ship!

We were excited to get a few items on the container ship that arrived a few weeks ago! An IKEA shelf for Jonathan's clothes, which we are putting together here. Also a lot of home school books! And now we are starting Kindergarten with Jonathan!

Here is the finished IKEA shelf for storing Jonathan's clothes, so nice!

We also got a sandbox for the kids to play with out on the back porch. They love it! Here they are seeing it for the first time, with their friend Linda.

Cooking, Piano, Animals, Fish Faces and Building

Naomi's friend, Silas, comes over to visit all the time! It is so fun to watch them play together. Of course there is sometimes screaming, but they are learning how to share. :)

Jonathan learned how to do the "fish face" from big Jonathan, a friend who we got to know when we helped with Interface in Madang in 2015. Our Jonathan was just 2 years old back then!

And now he has taught the "fish face" to Naomi! So funny!

Jonathan followed the directions and built this all by himself!

Playing zoo with all her animals!

Outdoor play with chalk, leaves, trees and friends!

Naomi loves to wave and say "HI!" very enthusiastically to everyone she sees!

Racing is always a favorite activity outside!

Hopscotch is also a fun thing we do with chalk outside!

And Jonathan loves to write letters... here he is thinking of how to finish writing the alphabet!

Drawing a BIG BIG pizza on the cement!

Silas and Naomi, best of friends!

They always say each others names and run to see each other when they get to play together, which is every day!

Micah was here visiting for a few days,. Jonathan loved that! His family headed back to the US for Home Assignment for 6 months.

Fun with leaves, sprinkling and throwing them down the slide!

Not quite sure how to slide down with all those leaves at the bottom!

Tree climbing is an every day occurrence around here!

FRIENDS!

We are quite excited that our friend's daughter, Joya, and Naomi are now playing nicely together! It has taken about a year, but they enjoy each other now and look forward to seeing each other!!

Jonathan and Naomi playing with Joya!

Ben, Mary and Joya, friends from Word Made Flesh visiting from their village of Baku. Mary is an Interface Hospitality Alumni so it is so fun to have her here in Wewak sometimes!

Jonathan and Linda play every day together and love to eat snacks together!

Indepedence Day Celebrations!

Happy Canada Day to All from the three Canadians in our home! :)

We celebrated with a strawberry cheesecake and hot chocolate!

And we also got out the Nova Scotian molasses! I made biscuits for lunch and we gave some to Lisa, who helps out around the house. She also loved it!

Happy Independence Day to All from the three Americans in our home! We celebrated with a campfire cookout with our coworkers. Funny thing though, there were people that joined us from Germany, Australia and Canada too. :)