Not too much new news going on in good 'ole Guatemala - one of the most exciting things was obviously vacation in Honduras. Elijah has also started swimming lessons, and although very jittery the first few times in the water, he's doing great now (6 weeks later). At his lesson yesterday, he swam about 5 feet from his teacher to the ladder. He's so proud of himself. We bought him a pair of goggles to encourage him to go underwater, and now we can hardly keep him on top!
Our vacation to Honduras was great - we really enjoyed the family time together and doing NOTHING! It was awesome to have the condo where the kids had their own room, we could make our own food and follow our own schedules. We will definitely look to keep a condo on the radar as a necessity for a wonderful Armstrong family vacation!
The kids are finishing up with their last few weeks of school - they both are doing really well. The school has a "summer vacation class" that we've enrolled them in for the month of November - it's not school at all, but lots of fun activities like cooking, gymnasium, music and arts. I think they are going to love it. Once December comes, they will have 6 weeks of real "vacation" - I think they are going to miss going to school everyday. We have a babysitter hired that is going to help us part time (4 hours a day) during their vacation weeks, so that I can still work at the office part time.
Well, that's about it for now. Scott started getting sick yesterday (fever, sore throat, fatigue), and we'd appreciate your prayers for him. We take him to the doctor this afternoon, because this is the 3rd time he's been sick in 3 months. Dengue Fever has reared it's ugly head here in the capital in the past few weeks - we are praying that it has nothing to do with that. We'll keep you updated, if we find anything out worthy of sharing. Love to you all.
Emily
