Other activities apart from the normal during October: my mom visited and treated us to a pumpkin patch; I began to feel the first trimester woes and got a nasty sinus infection; we started our next year of school; Ricky participated in a mountain biking race — got last place and a flat tire but had a great time; Raphael turned two; and, Ricky took the kids to a Reformation Day party.
We started school this month, but I forgot which ones we learned... I will document them with November’s :)
Other activities apart from the normal or our trip during September: we had a cookout with our neighbors, had a home meeting at our friends’ house in Hickory; Ricky helped a friend run his coffee cart; our church had its annual summer gathering and baptism; Ricky’s mom visited (and we did a lot!); and, Aolani went on a little girls retreat with her best friend to the Outer Banks.
Trip quote log:
“Why did we bring the baseball bat on this trip?” Ricky
“Is there a plug back here?” Micaiah
“The only way to get him out of there is to say, ‘Nunna, nunna!’” Aolani, about Raphael and food
“If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There’s nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.” - Desmond Tutu
“Daddy, we have a problem. I flushed the toilet and it’s overflowing.” Aolani
“Look, there’s a princess!” Aolani, about a quinceñera (a party for a Mexican girl when she turns 15)
“I told you over and over, ‘Are you sure you don’t want to bring it? You love it.’” Aolani
“Just go. No one’s going to care. You’re a little boy. Just go.” Ricky
"It’s not coming out. I don’t know why." Micaiah
“Are we meeting anybody here?” Aolani
“No.” Ricky
“Oh, that’s boring. I like meeting people for lunch.” Aolani
“Wawa baby.” Raphael
“Dad, don’t you love how Micaiah says ‘flesh’ instead of ‘body’? I love it.” Aolani
“You Christians are lucky. You can worship God in a language you understand.” Don Barr quoting Muslim Indonesian woman
“What was that!?!” Ricky, about any noise in the car
