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| Hanging out at Lions Park |
Moses started school at Tai'ala Academy a couple of weeks ago. I think it's good for all of us. As much as I love being with both boys all day, he has definitely been needing a little more structure. There are 30 kids that go to Tai'ala (most of which are from our ward.) Moses' class has nine kids, ages 3-5. Mrs. Waga and Mrs. Terry, his teachers are both in our ward too. Moses and I both really like them.
We've been driving almost 30 minutes every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning to get Mose to school at 7:30. Luckily it's about two minutes away from the house we're moving into in November. The school (and our new place) are in Mapusaga Fou, just up the hill from our church in Pava'ia'i. We have to take a tiny turn out and drive down a little dirt road to get to the school. When I drop him off in the classroom they take his backpack and his shoes! Haha, no shoes at school! It's awesome. The other day one of the other moms came at the same time to pick up her boy in the afternoon. She asked Mrs. Waga where her sons shoes were and Mrs. Waga said he didn't bring any. The boys mom just said "Oh, okay. See you tomorrow" like it happens all the time. Haha
Mose has cried the last few times I've dropped him off though. He's never cried before when I leave him! It's been making me feel really bad. Since the time he was 18 months old getting dropped off at nursery he's had no problems with me leaving him. I know he's having a blast at school because when I come to pick him up he's the happiest boy ever. He talks about how nice his teachers and friends are at school whenever I ask him questions about what he did. Maybe a little bit of separation anxiety because we moved to a tiny island away from everything and everyone he's used to? Hopefully it's a short phase. Having a few hours of school three times a week has been really good for Des, Mose, and me but I'm not sure I can keep dropping him off when he's crying. I think it has something to do with how early we wake up to get him there. We've been pushing his bed time up so hopefully that will reduce the tears in the mornings too.
Speaking of Moses and tears, he got STUNG by a JELLYFISH last week!!! My poor baby boy. It was the saddest thing. There have been little blue bottle's washing up on shore lately because it's been super windy. People bury them in the sand so people don't step on them because they can live and sting several weeks after they get washed up. Moses was digging in the sand when I went to paddle at Sadie's beach last wednesday and he dug one up. When he grabbed it he started screaming and grabbed it with his other hand to pull it off. So BOTH of his little hands got stung. He was in pain for a good six hours. It took lots of Tylenol and snuggles to make it through the evening. Luckily, he was okay when he woke up the next morning.
We also took a boat out to Aunu'u, the tiny island on the east side of Tutuila twice last week. It costs $2 a person to boat over and it's something fun to do so, why not? The boat's that go back and forth are a little sketchy but they get the job done! The first time we went out Nathan went surfing with the Goddwins from the ward while the boys and I swam at the dock. The water at the dock is crystal clear and perfect for swimming. A bunch of the local kids came and swam with us. They asked me about my freckles (they'd never seen anyone with freckles before) and played with the boys. The second time we went over we hiked around the entire island- it only took two and a half hours (and would have taken about and hour without the kids.) The coastline was amazing!
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| The boat over to Aunu'u |
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| Hiking around the island |
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| The coolest coastline EVER. |
This week we hiked up to blunts point. It's and old military lookout point with cannons from world war two. It has a pretty awesome view... and lot's of frogs in the evening. The boys had a good time chasing the frogs around.
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| One of the Cannon's at the top of Blunt's point. |
Nathan and I spoke in sacrament meeting last Sunday. It's definitely not my favorite thing to speak in sacrament meeting but I was glad we were asked. I felt like a lot of people we hadn't met yet approached us afterwards so we were able to get to know alot more ward members because of it. I was called to be a primary teacher too, but this week I was asked to be the Primary Presidency 2nd counselor instead. I'm excited to work with the little kids! It's kind of crazy- our records haven't been transferred from the UCLA ward yet.
After church we ate at the Afualos house. They are the nicest, most down to earth people. Sia, the youngest girl is super happy and outgoing. She had fun taking care of the boys while Nathan and I ate Food from the Umu and talked with Howard about family history.
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| Moses racing two tiny hermit crabs across the table. |
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