Rainy Season (Jan-Feb)

Rainy season!

Tracy and Zavion left us in mid January to travel around Kenya and Ethiopia. We continued with life as usual. Miles and Eliza had their after school guitar and dance lessons, respectively.

Miles was studying the rainforests of the world in his unit. He'd gone on a field trip to the botanical garden near our house. He wanted to show us his favorite trees, so we went as a family one Sunday, and of course we had to hurry home because of the torrential downpour that hit us in the afternoon.

Small Baobab (pronounced bayo-bab..."a" like in like tab)

Fig Tree - roots grow out of the branches, hanging until they hit the earth and latch on, spreading the width of the tree

Our garden was productive in the rainy season - we had lots to harvest: corn, eggplant, tomatoes, etc.

Tomato pie with tomatoes and basil from the garden

More rainy season - our lush garden 

Mambo - King of the Garden surveying his territory

The PTO helped with the annual campaign to raise money for children in Zimbabwe with cancer. Miles's class, having completed a unit on heroes and learning that heroes help people in need, took charge of the bandana sales. Wearing orange raises awareness about the issue. They earned $200 after two days of sales around campus! Well done, Grade 2!

Miles is hiding here behind the girl in the white cap, but this is his class - Grade 2 A&B.

One of the school's many peacocks resting on an art table.

Adding to the family...

Pet Love

Although Mambo is enough pet to fill the hearts of the whole family. Eliza had bigger dreams. For years she had been asking for a puppy. We started off with our first hamster. She named him Furry.

Little did we know that in February a puppy was being born who we would later adopt...

In the meantime, we had Furry. And Eliza finally got a pink room.