More Fun!

One of the most fun parts about coming to Brazil this year is that we have been able to do lots of fun things that we haven´t before. When Lincon and I were talking about the particulars of us coming to Brazil again Lincon said that this time we would get a nanny to help out with the boys and that we would spend most of our time in Tiangua just chilling with his parents. Well, the first part was accurate...we do have a girl helping us out with the boys (her name is Ana), the second part is far from what we have been doing!!! I think when he saw how much easier this time has been plans changed in a hurry and we have been running from this place to the next ever since. I´m not complaining...it has been fun and I can´t believe that we will be coming home soon already. We have gone to a couple new beaches this time. One is really touristy and for good reason. Jericoacoara is seriously such a cool place...a new favorite here for sure. The beach there is beautiful but not for the reasons you would typically thing of. It has amazing rock formations and emerald colored moss. So pretty! At night the street comes alive with vendors and different little shops with fun things to look at not to mention the oh so yummy pizza we had at Pizza Banana. We also went to another beach one state up in Piaui called Parnaiba. The hotel we stayed at had a waterslide and Sam and Seth adored it...ok...so we adults loved it, too. When we went to the beach there it was really rocky in some areas which would not have such great appeal for swimmers, but as for me I was excited because that meant for great exploring. I dragged the kids out there and proceeded to look in every crevis looking for critters. We saw baby lobsters, a sea cucumber (or at least that is what I think it was), and crabs. On our way back in I saw a rock that looked like it would be a good place for some little something to hide. I lifted it up and saw a glimps of what looked like a blue crab. On the down side I cut my finger on a broken piece of shell on the outside of the rock and that ended our adventure in the rocks. It was fun while it lasted!!!
Sam and Seth have really had a lot of fun here and it is so nice to see the relationship that they are developing with their grandparents. They like to go on walks with Vovo Carlos to buy ice cream and will go almost anywhere with Vovo Rita. They both have learned how to swim while they have been here, too. Sam, unfortuantely has had enough fun, though. He keeps saying he wants to go to his home and I have to keep reminding him that our airplane is not quite ready yet. He also gets angry and growls at anyone who tries to talk to him outside our family and Lincon´s imediate family. He also really does not like poor Ana. Any suggestions how to remedy this problem will be happily accepted!
Poor Sam had a little misshap while we have been here. He kept putting his mattress on top of the hammock and jumping on it even though I had told him repeatedly not to do this. I was helping make dinner one night when I heard Sam start screaming. I hurried into our bedroom to see him holding his mouth that was bleeding. I took him into the bathroom so I could wash him up and see the extent of the damage done. His upper front toothe was bleeding around the gum line and he had teeth marks just under his lower lip. As I was cleaning his cut I could see that the cut looked really deep and opened up so I looked at the inside of his mouth to see that the inside was even worse. My first thoughts were ``Crap, he is going to need stitches!`` I finished cleaning and then put a bandaide over it the best I could while Rita called Lincon home. We took him over to a doctor that night and on the way over we said a prayer that everything would go over well. I have heard plenty of horror stories of children having to be held down while a doctor stitched them up and I was really nervous. When we got there we took the bandaid off for the doctor to see and the cut looked like it was almost entirely shut. Had the cut looked like this when I was cleaning it I would not have even thought of going to see a doctor. I was incredably relieved and before we had even left the doctor´s office Sam was sleeping. Now is is only a faint pink squiggly line under his lower lip. His poor toothe is now brownish gray which makes me so sad to see whenever he smiles at me, but I am deeply grateful for how well things went that night. We have been so blessed the whole time we have been here. Time and time again we have been protected and comforted while we have been here and I am so grateful for a tender, compassionate Father in Heaven who has known my concerns and not left me alone.