New things...

I feel like our theme song for this week should be “I’m a Big Kid Now”- except for the fact that was a jingle used as a potty training commercial.
We have learned some new things this week and have ventured out of our comfort zone a few times. Not an easy thing to do, especially for the one of us that is a control freak (not mentioning any names, of course).
Yesterday Lorenda walked all the way from the babies’ home to Garden City Mall all by herself (Kelsey, stop laughing now). Okay, so it isn’t very far, but she had to cross two streets by herself and that is a hazardous task in this city!
This morning Lorenda tried her first “street food”- something we were never allowed to do when we were here with building teams. Turns out she regretted that decision a few hours later!
And the biggest feat of all…today Greg drove from Watoto Central to the babies’ home to pick up Lorenda and then got us to our apartment without a single wrong turn. He purchased a map for our GPS before we left Canada- best investment ever! When any of the Watoto drivers drove us home, they took some convoluted route with lots of turns and it always took a long time. Today we took a very direct route and were home in record time. He navigated two traffic circles and managed to remember to drive on the left side of the road. Turns out having a right hand drive vehicle for the last few years has been good training. Greg felt it really helped him here- I guess God has been grooming us for this for longer than we realized. Lorenda only had to use her “imaginary brake” once so that we would avoid hitting a pedestrian.
I know when we told you that we paid 20 million for the vehicle, you were all thinking that we bought a Maserati or a Lamborghini- no, it is a 1995 Toyota Rav 4. Here is Greg and his new wheels!