5:45- woke up... Got coffee going. Spent a few minutes in Bible study before
6:15- Archer woke up. Put on a backyardigans for Archer while I finished my bible study/coffee/scripture memory review
7:00 Aden woke up. We're working on reminding him to turn off the fan in his bed before he comes out (energy conservation because otherwise I will forget it's on until nap time. It's rainy season so the solar doesn't charge as efficiently so we need to save electricity where we can)
7:30 Aden helped me make some orange cranberry muffins for breakfast that we just got on our container that arrived two days ago which is akin to Christmas in Sierra Leone.
8:00 I sent in the "assassins" as John calls them to wake him up. We eat breakfast and John leaves to get started on work.
8:30 John and Chad start working on a short circuit of the solar that pumps water from the dam at our property to the nearby community. This involves digging up some electrical lines. Oh and it's raining today. I did some breakfast dishes and then started not to feel well because I took some medicine on an empty stomach so then Aden and I watched a Mickey mouse movie while Archer played around.
10:00 After laying down for the movie I was feeling better so got the kids dressed and joined Robin in working on making decisions about what we should unpack from the container of Emily's.
11:00 We put together baby Ben's crib although I'm sure it took us twice as long as it would have taken John or Chad. We felt accomplished and excited for their arrival in less than a month!!! Yay! We made some plans of what to wait to get ready a little closer to their arrival. Picture Archer running around trying to get into everything between making escape attempts while we do all of the above.
12:00 Robin and I split up to make lunch for our families. While I'm whipping up some Mac n cheese for the boys and leftovers for me, I see John and our guys trying to get the snake out of the tractor.
They tried pouring boiling water in the tractor arm yesterday with no success.
Today they tried turning on the tractor, moving the arms up and down, sticking long sticks in the arms. Finally, after John used up almost a full can of insect spray, the snake made its way out of its little nesting place and was slithering on the ground. One of the well drilling guys (the one with the umbrella in the picture below) hit it with a stick. That and the poison spray made him rather slow moving.
12:45 We eat lunch. Archer goes down for his nap and John and Chad go back out in the rain to make sure we have water pumping to the community.
