Painting Pumpkins

Three of our infants brought in pumpkins for painting!  Lets see what happened when they were given the opportunity to paint them!

One of us was SO excited she jumped right in!

Aven seemed to make the other two a little concerned! lol!  Zoey watched Aven for a while and didn't know what to make of the whole situation!

Kate took her time feeling out the whole situation and would barely touch the brushes......

Not Aven!  She was covered in paint with in 5 minutes!

She kept trying to make the other girls jump in, but as you can see, Kate didn't like Aven touching her with her messy hands! ;0)

When Aven left her alone, she started painting....

Zoey seemed to like the orange paint......

Before we knew it, the girls were underway!  More of the paint got on them and the paper than the pumpkins!  They wound up making a  beautiful art piece and we hung it up at the festival, for everyone to adore!

Some of us also make a beautiful art piece on ourselves ;0)

It's Harvest Time

Look what we found.......

"Ohhhhh, what are these???"

"This is my favorite one!  I like how it feels!"

Look how well we all play together!

"Wow, these fit inside this toy!"

"This makes noise if you hit it!"

"We love to throw the pumpkins in here, and race to see who can grab them first!"

"I am so strong!  I can carry these all around the room!"

"Who needs expensive toys, when we can play all day with these!" ;0)

the well

the last day at the village the team assembled the pump for the well. the village will be celebrating their new well for weeks to come & they started the huge celebration right after the pump was installed for all the team's hard work. the people of the village were so thankful that they planned a wonderful celebration with music, gifts & families from the village made speech's about how wonderful the team was & everything they accomplished for their people. the village built a palm alter around the well before the team got their that morning to surprise them & thank goodness they didn't have to tear it down to build the pump because as you can see it is beautiful. all the children were trying to peek through the palms as the team was finishing the well to see what it looked like, everyone was very excited. after the ribbon cutting one of the older women of the village couldn't wait to be the first to taste the clean water. what an amazing experience to be a part of, something that i know paul will never forget & he's so thankful that he got to be a part of it!!!

final & hardest step of building the pump for the well

finishing the pump/well

the AMAZING team

the palm alter that was built around the well by the people of the village

trying to sneek a peak at the well

the ribbon cutting ceramony

young pumping water for the elder

the first taste of clean water