Playing, playing, playing ...

Yesterday was a full day of playing for the girls.

Brianna showed some of the girls how to weave using leaves from a banana tree that fell over the other day. I was surprised that no one else knew how to weave.


Millie and Sophie spent ages under the transit house with Felicity, playing in the dirt.

Ah, the girls clothes are now covered in stains! I'm not sure what is in the dirt, but their clothes come out of the wash with small, very dark (oil-like) stains on them that no amount of scrubbing will remove.

Aunty Gery told a story to some of the kids using a paper plane. She talked about the different places you could get to in an aeroplane, then asked them what were some of the places a plane could never get to. She said if you wanted to get to heaven, a plane could never get you there, then she tore off the wings, opened up the paper and revealed a cross. Jesus is the only way to heaven! Aunty Gery taught all the kids how to make the plane, then the cross. Brianna was very impressed, and demonstrated to Geoff and I later on how it all worked.

Aunty Gery is the origami expert! Last week she taught our girls how to make houses and pianos, which they loved!

Elora spent the day wandering around the base playing with different kids. A few times I went looking for her, just to know where she was, and she would wave at me to let me know she was fine, and be off again!

Elora popped in to show us a flower she picked! Beautiful as it was, I made sure she knew not to pick any more without asking!

At about 3pm she came home crying, having scraped her knee on something under someone's house. I put her in the shower and made a tiny bath for her, gave her a few LPS to play with and let her have a quiet play. Then I patched up all her sores, put her in clean clothes and stuck a DVD on for her to watch on the computer! Doesn't happen all that often, but it's great to pull out the DVD card when needed!

After dinner we had our usual Base Fellowship, but this time I took Sophie and Elora home after the singing. The night doesn't finish till about 8:30pm, and it is just too late for them, considering we have to get up by 6:30am at the latest. Millie and Bri cope better with less sleep, so they stayed with Geoff.