Smile!

Our Car is back and she's better than before!!

Hey now, Hey now, our Car is back!!!

 So remember when Theo would run up to the camera when I tried to take a picture?  Well today I said 'Smile' and he did.  Then I did too because really, how can a kid be so cute?

 We are settling into the rainy season now.  The nights are rainy, the mornings damp, and the sun comes and goes throughout the day.  It is so beautiful.  Also nice to have an excuse to pull out the dusty sweaters and cuddle up together in bed.  Lots of new creatures out though... here Theo explores his first banana slug.

On Saturday night we left Alice to put the kids down.  Kaia has very cute new jammies.  Sadly she finally outgrew the purple one piece that was so super cute for so super long. 

 

 Kidless we headed out (in our own car) to a 'Concertos and Coctails' evening at ISM.  It was organized by the mother of one of my tutor students and featured students and teachers from a local music school.  Umoja offers music lessons mainly in stringed instruments and has an extensive outreach program.  It was AMAZING and they raised tons of money.  Besides it is always nice to have an excuse to dress up and play adult for a night.

Mom... the older woman in the middle is Carol Stubbs.  You asked if we knew her family and everyone knows the Stubbs and you can see some of their lives on the Stubbs Family Website.  We don't know them personally but know them through their performances.  They are teaching at a local university and are involved in just about any performance throughout the city.  I find them very interesting because they moved here only a few years ago and I think it is really brave for a family with teenagers to uproot themselves and move to Africa, especially since the youngest daughter has some learning difficulties.  They are all home schooled and are all incredibly talented musically.  I have so much respect for the parents because I could never imagine home schooling high school students, and they are obviously doing an incredible job.  The oldest daughter is the most interesting to me, probably because I have seen her perform the most.  She speaks fluent Swahili and is a chameleon, in her element on stage playing a cello solo or performing a native African dance.  She is only 16 or so but appears to be completely comfortable in her own skin and so open and to the world around her.