We’ve discovered a nice half-hour walk that loops around our neighborhood and allows us to take in the local flora and fauna. We’ve haven’t checked out a good bird book from the library, but they have several, so we’re going to work on that. We’ve also seen a number of interesting bug and butterflies, most of which have beautiful and bright markings. Diana enjoys watching the people as we walk, and has even tracked the flying birds a few times.
Emily was able to get out for dinner with a friend sans Diana this week, which was a big treat. The Lupe club is never disappointing with food (except the desserts, which Em has too high standards for). We also borrowed a bunch of DVDs from friends (bootleg DVDs are about $1 in Timika, so they had stacks and stacks). Only when we got home did we realize that we’d grabbed almost entirely heavy dramas, but we’d also gotten the first two seasons of the TV show “House,” so we’ve been catching up on all of the rare diseases known to mankind. Watching a few episodes a week does make the US seem not very far away.
Diana has been getting one “solid” food meal a day, and seems to be enjoying her rice quite a bit. Ben does the feeding since Diana is a little too distracted by Em to focus on eating. She is sitting up on her own quite well, and is starting to sleep on her tummy at night. It’s still so new to her though that she will sometimes wake up a bit disoriented and unsure about why she’s upside-down. But she’s been very happy lately. Her top two teeth haven’t broken through yet, still just little white nubs under the skin of her gums, but they don’t seem to be bothering her too much.
We grabbed lunch downtown on Sunday for a change. Em got the tofu with bok choy, and Ben got the “Chicken Gordon Bleu” (sic). Both were tasty, and the mini egg rolls were delicious. We’re still feeling pretty healthy food-wise compared to our life in Arizona, and we’re doing better about cooking at home rather than going to the café. The grocery store is also stocked with all kinds of new and different foods (the snack food aisles seem particularly strange – tons of jelly snacks and green bean flavored drinks). When Em goes shopping on Saturdays, she likes to bring home at least one new thing to try or just laugh about (see pics).
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