Art Class

Carl has been in Moshi for the last 2 nights and somehow we survived without him.  The first night was terrible... the kids wouldn't fall asleep for forever, slept terribly, and kept me up most of the night.  I set my alarm on my phone for the first time and the 'standard' setting is SILENT!!  The only reason I woke up in time to get Kaia to school was because Theo fell out of bed at 6am.  Poor guy.  Poor us.  Terrible way to start the day but it did get loads better by nightfall.

Funny driving bit...

Yesterday a water pipe broke and was spurting water 20 feet in the air at the side of the road.  It was at a dip in the road and a few cars had collected.  I was worried the dirt road had gotten muddy and that cars were struggling or stuck.  Turns out they were just taking turns sitting under the spray getting free car washes :)

Now that Kaia goes to school in the afternoons she does more creative projects.  Often she will just come home with pages of pictures or letters but they are always interesting.  Here is a self portrait of her with the rain, sun, and rainbow.   Because 'the sun and the rain make a rainbow' which she says she learned in school but since we have talked about it so many times I am going to claim teaching rights on that one. Notice all her toes.  She likes to include all the fingers and toes.

 And here is a bird flying above a field.  At the bottom you can see the grass and bird poop in the field :)  And because of that well organized bird poop this is one of my favorite drawings.

And as if to make up for the first night, last night they were angels and things couldn't have gone much more smoothly.  They slept soundly and I had to drag them out of bed in the morning.  Theo sat quietly in the car for the 2 hour and 15 minute carpool ride to school this morning.  Poor guy.  Also Amy's car overheated a bit from the drive, hopefully it isn't the sign of future problems.