Last Wednesday night after church we invited some kids to come spend the night at our house. We ended up with 13 kids, it was a blast. We had most the of the family of the 12, and some neighbors. One boy named Carlos Alberto came over for the first time, and I'm glad he did, his father was shot working as a police officer a couple months ago and is now pretty much incapacitated, living as a vegetable in their house, so I'm glad he got to get away from his harsh reality for a night. We took the kids to KFC (they love this statue of colonel Sanders, they all call him Grandpa, Marla is kissing him in this picture), then on to our house and watched a movie. During the middle of the night some boys came in asking for a drink. I went in to give them some water when one of them asked for the drink that was in a bottle... I knew we didn't have anything in a bottle, but he (William) insisted that he and Carlos already had had some... I asked him to show it to me with a sinking gut feeling. He took me into the kitchen and showed me the bottle of cleaner we keep in a water bottle! After a little bit of panic of not knowing what to do, I called Amber who called the hospital and found out we just needed to give them antacid pills, that the brand of cleaner we use is not that corrosive... We have a little ways to go kid-proofing our house, I guess.
The pila, baptistry, is going well. The bricks are about half way up. We have gotten to know Darwin's uncle Hector pretty well, a preacher at another church in Mogote, who has been a great help.
Friday we got a suprise visit from Mark Thurman. The three of us decided to go to a national park fairly close called La Tigra on Saturday. We had a great time hiking to a waterfull 120 high, and being in the peaceful, quiet rain forest away from the hoking horns and constant noise of the city. The road up there is really neat, with fields of calalilies, strawberries and blackberries, people selling fruit on the streets, and kids selling boquets of flowers for 50 cents. We really enjoyed ourselves.
While we were at La Tigra we heard that the boys had been in a car accident but didn't realize how serious it could have been. Blessedly everyone is OK. But after the park we headed to the hospital to pick up those who had come to town in an ambulance while Amber brought back the rest of the crew who had been in the car. We are so happy everyone is OK, just a few bumps and bruises, it really is a miracle after seeing pictures of the truck. Poor Shakira the truck who rolled 5 times, RIP.
3 comments:
I bet you felt terrible about the boys drinking the cleaner!
Thank you for posting the picture of you two. Doesn't seem like I've seen you two in many pics. lately. Could you email me that one when you get a chance?
Crazy about the boys in Amber's car! We're praying she is able to get another one soon.
wow. that really is a crazy week.
By the time you have kids you'll be very well prepared!
Things like kid's drinking cleaner happen at least once in a kid's life! William do you remember when Lorie drank some Chlorox & water that Grandma Kathy was using
to clean in her kitchen? When they called the poisen control center they acted very suspicious, like they thought it wasn't an accident! I think they just told her to drink several cups of milk. She was fine!
Glad your story had a happy ending!
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