Our friends's son

Thursday was a holiday.  We spent the day at home trying to catch up on home projects and enjoying the rain.  In the evening we got the most horrible news that my friend had found her 11 month old son in the pool.  We heard it through a 3rd source so news was slow to come.  They don't know how long he was in the pool but they did get him breathing and airlifted to Nairobi.  By 10 in the evening he was stable.  Thank God.  By Friday he recognized his mother and was playing with his tubes.  A great sign.  We are so relieved.  I can't put any of my feelings into words.  This has been a heart wrenching experience.  Hoping to hear continued good news today.  What a terrible reminder of how precious life is and to enjoy each moment we have.

 Here is Kaia enjoying the rain.  While Carl and I were busy being productive indoors I went outside to find her in her day clothes standing in the rain trying to catch rain water in her mouth.  What a turkey!  We compromised and decided she could drink all the rain water she wanted but that she should wear her rain jacket and rain boots.

 So do you remember these chairs in August?  The ones I was convinced were bug and flea infested besides being so ugly we had to keep them covered because we couldn't stand to look at them.

 And how they were under construction in September, October, November, and the first half of December...

 Well they are finally finished!!  It took so long for me to figure out how to sew those cushion covers and we seemed to run into roadblocks every step along the way.  The material was barely enough and the seat on the couch is actually a patchwork of 7 smaller pieces!  It turns out it cost about 110,000 Tsh (or 75 USD) just to refurbish them!!!  No matter, totally worth it.  They are gorgeous and very comfortable.  Now we need some tables and a matching carpet.  It never ends :)  Notice how dirty Theo's knees are!!  Crawling and rainy season are a BAD combination!!

Boo hoo.  Carl is gone for the weekend.  So at night we had movie night without him.  ELF.  Great movie!!  We normally make this bowl of popcorn.  Without him this week, even though we had a friend over too, we still couldn't make it to the bottom of the bowl.  Guess Carl eats a lot of popcorn!!  But in his defense we did make a little more than normal because I burnt the first batch and was able to salvage a bit from the pot. I think I am procrastinating on cleaning that pot by updating the blog :)

Off to clean the pot.