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A couple exciting things happened this week that I thought I'd share.  First, on Sunday we went back to NPH (the orphanage that we visited shortly after we got here.)  Right when we got there Danni ran up and gave Logan a hug.  Danni is a girl that Logan really connected with the first time we went.  Logan was super excited to see her again.  A few minutes later Logan couldn't find her so we spent the next hour or so looking for her.  We visit a few houses along the way but didn't find her, Logan was getting sad until all of a sudden he saw her running towards us and he started running towards her until they got to each other and hugged, it was seriously so cute.  We knew that we wanted to do something for her so I asked her if I could be her Madrina (sponsor/ godmother).  She was super excited and turned to Logan and said "Now you are my brother."  We hope to visit her and/or have her come here to visit us a couple times before we head home.

 



The next exciting thing happened today.  Camryn went to school!!  She decided that she wants to learn spanish bad enough that she wanted to go to a local spanish speaking school.  She has a friend who goes to Stell Maris, a catholic school in town, so she talked to her and decided she wanted to go too.  We went to town yesterday and found her a uniform, she looks so cute in it.  She woke up early and got to school on time (7:00 am) and I worried about her all day.  I went to pick her up at 12:15 because that's when school usually ends.  She came out to let me know that on Tuesday's they have English class so they don't get out until 1:00.  I suggested that she could probably leave because she already knows English but she really wanted to stay so I took the other kids to pottery class and came back to get her.  She was so happy, the kids were super nice to her, she met a really nice friend (whose name she can't remember because it's a spanish name), her Teacher was super nice and it couldn't have gone better.  The only bad news that she had for me was that she was picked randomly as the person to bring brunch on Thursday.  So I have to figure out what to make for the 31 kids in her grade.

 

 

Camryn's friend told us before that Camryn might not want to use her full name because Camarone in spanish means shrimp and the kids might make fun of her for having the name of shrimp so we decided her Nicaraguan name should be Camila and she said she was really glad she had done that because everyone remembered it and could say it and she thinks it helped, only a couple times did she accidentally write the wrong name :)

Carter also chose the Nicaraguan name of Carlos and Logan is Leo (although pretty much everyone already knows Logan as Osito so his is probably not necessary but he didn't want to be left out.)

Another great day in paradise, other than missing our family it's getting easier and easier to be here and the thought of leaving is getting harder and harder. . .