Happy Birthday Eileen Shiphrah!

My beautiful girl who is full of sunshine and sweet light...

She is two years old today!

Eileen has a kind and gentle personality and cares deeply for people, and even characters in picture books. She's smart and obedient, loves snuggles, stuffed animals and dolls.

First day of “school”

We're back to preschool two mornings a week and next week I will start up English lessons for the 6 other classes. Molly and Eileen are not able to be left without me yet so this morning I stayed with them and it was fun watching all the children.

Joyeux anniversaire Molly Amourai!

My little girl turned 3 today! She is a wonderful and caring big sister and a great little friend. She loves talking with me and playing games; two of my favorite things to do with people I love. She is excited about learning new things and is already well on her way to being officially bilingual. She loves her neighborhood friends, our goat and being outside. Below are some pictures of our little celebration today before Papa went to work. Birthday cake for breakfast!

Snapshots Again

The girls love wrapping up their favorite stuffed animals in blankets and pretending they are their babies:

Bread and eggs for breakfast with stuffed animals for company:

Rainy morning before church:

Sunday morning after church with Mama Jeanne, our pastor’s wife:

Almost 3 and almost 2:

Fall tablecloth out:

Reading a story with Mr. Jim:

Crazy hair day:

Molly showing Eileen the tomatoes she just picked while Eileen takes a potty break:

Pretending to be a doctor:

Building something with Papa:

Snapshots

Here are some snapshots of our happy, slow and very repetitive life.... Learning to stay put between songs during our church service:

getting a hug from papa before he leaves for work:

And watching him leave for the day:

The girls are enjoying working with me as I sew.

Molly says she’s writing a grocery list with water, ketchup and milk at the top of the list. I’m not sure what Eileen is writing down. Intently coloring:

The avocado tree

Yesterday Orcxance knocked down the remaining avocados from the tree in our front yard while Molly ran around collecting them as they fell. Eileen watched from a safe distance.

Samosas

I’ve been doing some more experimenting with cooking and my latest and greatest meal was samosas with ground beef and onions as the filling. You can put anything you want in the filling but I really like the ground beef option, and now that we discovered a place here where we can buy it, food life has improved! So far with each pregnancy I’ve craved ground beef almost more than anything else and these samosas with the meat seasoned with salt, pepper and a little taco seasoning are really excellent. Making the wrappers was time consuming but well worth it. Here are some photos... (note: the meat filling is fully cooked before frying)

Frying in oil:

Done:

Inside look: