Hada De Diente

Hada De Diente is a literal translation of Tooth Fairy, who came for a visit Thursday night. Caroline had been wiggling a loose tooth for several days. When the kids were playing outside, Luis landed on Chris, who landed on Caroline, and POP! Out came the tooth. Thank goodness for my new red washcloth from Nurse Paula!! After a few minutes, Care stopped crying and got very excited about having a Tooth Fairy visit here in Guatemala. The Tooth Fairy gave her 10Q, roughly $1.25.

Luis' reaction was interesting. He hasn't lost any baby teeth yet (an answered prayer of mine) and was very curious to why Caroline would put her tooth in a little bag under her pillow. In the morning, however, he seemed somewhat impressed that she had 10Q instead, and checked to see if any of his teeth wiggle.

Poor Caroline, she is missing three top teeth, but we're getting some cute photos. Here she is, proudly displaying her newest smile:



We are still having a ton of fun with our geology unit in science. It is the favorite subject for all of us. We got to do some cool stuff with rocks (I didn't know you can create sparks with two tumbled quartz rocks), and we have rocks soaking in vinegar and creating crystals. One of the cool things we did this week was "Crack Open Geodes." Each kiddo, I mean student, got to try to crack their geode with a hammer. Smiles all around as they each opened their geode. Extra special thanks to Victor to bringing my "classroom rock collection" all the way from Texas.





And a highlight from Luis tonight, he was our prayer leader at dinner and sang the "God Our Father" grace correctly all the way through!! That was awesome!!

Have a great night!