New Toys!

Thanks to some great friends who gave a gift to bless our babies, we have some new toys at the baby house! It is incredibly hard to find baby toys here in Kenya. Anything that can be found here is either very poor quality that will break within days, or is an extremely expensive import. But, we found a treasure! Several of them. I am sad to see some friends leave Kenya, but in their leaving we were able to buy some awesome things for our baby house! You will be missed, Lawrence's, but thanks for sharing your toys with us, little Jonathan. :-)  Here are our babies enjoying the new finds....

Mr. Serious, William, in the swing!! (Thanks, Dan & Beth)

Julia talking to Winnie in the bouncy seat/rocker. (Thanks, Auntie Susan!)

Happy boy, Kennedy, having fun in the play station. (Thanks, Auntie Susan!)

And just to give you an example, I saw one of these bouncy seats at a toy store in Nairobi last week. I bought it at Target last year for just under $20 and brought it in with me. It was $115 here!!! Needless to say, the toys above would be impossible for us to buy if we had not been blessed to find these from fellow missionaries.

(And just for the record, David would never fit in this seat now!)

We are SO very blessed to have these wonderful things in our baby house. We are definitely not your typical Kenyan orphanage. Thank you, Lord, for our abundant blessings, and thank you to all of our friends and supporters who make it possible!! 

Our recent international adoptive family and the adoption society staff for the international adoptions were overwhelmingly pleased with our home, as were our previous national adoptive families. Because of the type of home we have, it helps our babies transition into a family and home life very easily. Though children do adapt, this home style setting helps them transition more easily than if they were to come from a large, institutional type facility. THANK YOU to all who help make it possible!!!