Settling In...

Well, this'll be a hodge-podge of things but basically sums up the few weeks we had home before we headed out again for our yearly conference in Bali...

First thing we did once getting back home was to head over to see Jos & Yuli's new baby named Alden. We're so happy w/ Jos & Yuli! He was born while we were having to deal w/ visa stuff in Jakarta.




When we got back home folks also stopped over to see Lij (not really to see us!) ;)

Here we enjoyed dinner on the seawall outside our home/office with a few friends. Elijah got all bundled up in his Indo cloth carrier to ward off mosquitoes.


We also enjoyed a beach trip to our favorite "secret cove" with our friend & intern Joel as well as some of our national buds.






A couple times a month we like to get together w/ likeminded folks across different organizations. Here's one of those meetings in our livingroom. Look @ our prego friends Lily on the left & Berta on the right, so cute!




Here's Elijah enjoying his "Johnny Jump-up" on our front porch (our office in the background) as well as taking parts off of his walker to eat them...


Every morning behind our home as we eat breakfast we see fishermen (like our friend Bal here) pass by from the ocean back home - sometimes they're carrying fun things like hammerhead sharks or stingrays too!

Another fun random pix, J trying a temporary fix on the hole that our neighborhood cat made in our screen door (Lij looking on w/ great interest ;)

Lij trying his new sippy cup!


Which evidently wore him out...;)

We're enjoying reading books with Jah these days - every once & awhile kids in the neighborhood like to listen in too (the translated version of course)


And us just hanging out :)

Ahh...Back Home

Here's a couple videos & pix of hanging out with our next door neighbors...


And a final snort from Lij makes everybody laugh :)

Baby dedication ceremonies here are important - notice the gold on this baby's wrist, a family's way of saving.

Everyone wanted to hold Jah (or actually Yusuf, he's called by his middle name here)

A Few Furry (& not so furry) Friends

So this post is dedicated to the ever present animal life around our home, some more amusing than others! One morning E saw a cow in our backyard that had gotten into our neighbor's trash can. Wasn't long before a quick back scratch put this guy on his way to a trash can lid free day.


Here's a video of an especially friendly goat that ate a mango seed of ours like a piece of candy...

So these next pix aren't exactly around our home but rather on the way up the mountain to the village where we're working - here's J's foot in the middle of an elephant footprint.
As well as our friend Arifik's hand...great guy.
Wouldn't want to leave out the pix of the motorbikes in this spot where it looks like the elephants were dancing...


This pix was an attempt to capture a new find for us - lizard eggs in the keyhole, oh brother.
While visiting our teammates Jos & Yuli & their new son Alden, we got a chance to show Jah some cute chicks. Why do we feel our life is like one big petting zoo...?! Ha :)

And a couple videos to fill in the details...



Since we're on the "animals on the porch" theme, thought we'd post our fav animal clip in awhile:

In the cows (slight) defense, here's a quick clip of what a storm looks like (hence they run to our porch!)