Life has been moving by at an incredibly fast pace lately! Our Lenten resolve has fully manifested itself on the weekends, and using the bus has made us savvy Ticos, but at the same time, we are all ready to get back to the use of the car for all of our normal life activities! Whenever we find ourselves with a bad attitude about not using the car, it typically serves as a great reminder of Jesus' sacrifice for us. Believe it or not, the kids have actually gotten used to the bus system. I counted last Sunday morning how many blocks we walk from our bus stop in San Jose to our church bus stop - about 13 city blocks. These are in addition to the 5 blocks to walk to the first bus and about 4 blocks to walk to the church. We easily get in about 2 miles of walking with a round trip to church. Elijah is a force to be reckoned with - he walks them with ease. Sydney sometimes makes it the whole way, but sometimes begs to be carried on Scott's shoulders. He usually gives in, because it makes the walk faster in the end. :)
Elijah's obviously been loosing teeth like crazy! He's lost 3 in the past 5 weeks, and has another on the bottom that will be out in the next week or so. We've been saying that he's got a jack-o-lantern smile. He's becoming quite the professional on pulling them out, I must say. About 2 years ago, Scott told him the story that Clark tried to pull out one of Tim's teeth back in the day, by tying a string to the bathroom doorknob and the other end of it to Tim's tooth. When he slammed the door, the tooth didn't come out of Tim's mouth and Tim went flying across the bathroom! Elijah's determined that he won't let anyone near his teeth when they are loose - he'll do it himself. :) With his front 2 teeth, the tooth fairy left him 500 colones (about $1) - the others ones he lost were small teeth, so he got 100 colones. His most recent loss was the second front tooth, and when he came out of his room with the money in his hand, he looked and me and said, "I knew that one would be worth 500 Colones". It was so funny. Oh - he's also doing really well in school - he got a 100% on his recent science quiz and spelling test. He's pretty proud of himself.
Sydney is loving the clubs that she's in this year. She's taking a drama club on Monday, gymnastics on Tuesday and Cheerleading on Thursday. Her staying for clubs helps out our schedule, because that means that she gets out of school the same time Elijah does. Currently gymnastics is her favorite, but next week we will get the note that says we need to make a cheerleading uniform for her club - I have a feeling once she has a uniform for cheerleading, that will come out on top. :) We've decided to take her out of swimming for a while - she's not enjoying it anymore, and it was frustrating to always make her get in the water. She is a pretty good swimmer - I hope that she wants to start again in a few months. Elijah continues with the lessons, and is GREAT at swimming on his back and is already practicing diving in the water.
In case I don't post before Holy Week, we will be gone for vacation during that week. We've rented a condo at Playa del Coco - it's about 5 hours from here, on the Pacific side. We are taking March 29 - April 4 as a family vacation and we are really looking forward to it. I'll for sure post pictures when we are back. Adios!
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