Saturday, February 21

We went shopping today in the market!!! Bee and Danny went with us. Bee wanted to make sure she helped us all get good deals in the market cause she knew that they would all take advantage of us. And they did try, but we are good, I should say, Matt is good, at bargaining with them! We bought lots of things to put in the babies room so they can always be 'at home'. We bought Colten a couple drums...I'm sure he's gonna love that! We had Liberians stopping and taking our pictures with their cell phones. Again...it felt like we were famous or something. It was really hot today. Down while we were shopping you couldn't really feel the breeze as well. I could feel the sweat running down the back of my legs...gross! But we've been here for almost a week now and you don't really notice it much anymore, the sweat that is :) We came across a place where they were selling Liberia jerseys and they were a big hit for the people on our team. There were two Liberians there selling them and all of a sudden 30 Liberians came out of the woodwork and were all trying to sell you these shirts. They were crowding around us and all of a sudden I felt someone unzip my money pouch, luckily I didn't have any money in there and I quickly shut it, but I didn't see who did it, but in an instant Bee started grabbing us all and told us we needed to leave because there were 'bad people' around. Turns out I wasn't the only one who had their packs unzipped. Several people had their bags messed with and Big Jason, who's not called big for nothing, had a couple guys trying to stick their hands in his pockets. So we high tailed it out of there as a group. I'm so glad we have them with us. They took good care of us! After shoppig we went to the church to eat and on our way back to the ELWA house we stopeed at the AFAA house and the team spent some time with the kids there and we got to stay and spend a lot of time with the babies! We were able to feed them bottles and put them to bed. Our driver didn't come for us until 9 pm so we spent the entire evening with them! We of course held them the whole time! Never putting them down once :) Onah was constantly playing with Matt's face or watch or whatever else he had on him that was of interest to Onah. Onah wimpered just a little when we got there but not much crying at all! Marie kept falling asleep on me! We got to see Onah giggle and talk a little! The boys were playing soccer and he was facinated with the ball going all over the place. He kept cooing and jabbering at them. So I'd say, "onah kick it!" and he'd reply with "KAH!" It was so precious to hear his voice without crying and screaming :) We had the children write letters to parents back home and sang songs with them. We even played Chi Chi Ni with the boys! They couldn't believe we knew how to play their game! We ended the evening watching a movie with them...yes they have a tv there, run on a generator. The babies fell asleep in our arms and we left for the night when our driver came to pick us up. I left without crying this time!