Worth a thousand words…

I’m feeling a little tired and not all that inspired to write just now, so I figured I’d just shoot ya’ll some photos.

Here’s Kibaki—akak: the president of Kenya—and Francis. I have no idea what Kibaki is wearing on her head, except to say that whatever it is, it’s hilarious.

Thomaso is a shy little guy, but he really comes alive when he wears this hat. And he wears this hat whenever he comes to church—I do believe he and Laudina (his mother) have picked up on how much we love it. He’s giving ya’ll a grand salute, though he had no idea what we were having him do. The poor guy timidly held his hand up like that for minutes after the picture was taken, looking cautiously and somewhat expectantly at us.



One of the funniest new aspects of our Lopit life revolves around this little (stinky) baby. This is baby Kim, daughter of Ebiong, our neighbor. It took us a while to win Ebiong into our little circle of friends, but now she comes by each night and greets us “very very very very much.” But that’s not the funny part. Two or three times now, she’s come to the gate and been like, “Kim, come take baby Kim. I’m going to the river.” Hahaha. So, yeah, we’re a babysitting service. Kimpie took the opportunity to give baby Kim a bath—Ebiong’s kids are notoriously stinky, smelling of balu. (Recall previous story about Monica tottering in drunk with a mug of beer. We call Monica, Linus. Lovingly, of course.) Anyway, baby Kim loved the bath and later tried to eat the baby powder.