Home and HOT!

 Claire

We have had a lot of fun this week finishing out our time playing with cousins before coming home. Claire loves to help her grandma feed the animals and usually jumps at the opportunity to help unless she is playing because she will say 'no I'm playing' instead. She even usually says 'no, thank you' when she doesn't want any more food. Now that we are home, it is really hot and we've been hanging out in scarce clothes and she always asks to go play outside in the sprinklers. It worries me when she wants to go out during the hottest part of the day so I've been planning to get them used to going out in the morning and not afternoon. Our house gets the hottest right before bed though and we are trying to stay cool because we can only open the windows when it starts to cool down outside.

Shay

Her sentences are getting really good, especially when describing something like her dream in the morning, but her words are often missing the 's' sounds. I think I practiced with Claire on pronouncing more often, so I have been starting to have her practice full words with specific sounds like milk with the k instead of 'mil' when she asks for it. Even Claire has some words she doesn't say right, but they understand each other so perfectly and I have her interpret on the rare occasion I don't understand Shay. She was excited when we got home to all her toys and they played together really well remembering their old games. Coming back to our church where she has her special Elsa bin the teachers have saved for her was funny and she asked about nana's church toys once.

Rotations

Chris will start a new quarter tomorrow and get to start a new rotation that apparently helps out refugees. I'll be starting our packing, cleaning, and getting the girls back to doing homework and learning. I skipped out yesterday because as soon as we got home Friday night I had a 24-hour stomach bug that made me useless. It is weird to think we are moving in less than a month now! I'll be back in Idaho visiting again and hopefully getting ready to move us to the next place we will be living. I'm glad we got to see friends and family and help out in the ways that we did. It'll be harder when I'm there again without Chris, but I'm praying for it to go by quickly and be back together before I even notice. Even though it will be during our birthdays...Love you all!