Cute Kids (written 11/21/10)

We have some pretty darn cute kids in our village and I managed to catch a few on camera...

 Girls standing outside our window, probably staring at us eat dinner...

Yes, that is a bottle with some fake hair attached. No, the girls in my village are not making "babies" to play "house". They are making mannequins to practice hair braiding- an essential part of this culture.

 Check out this sweet car on a string!

Seriously the cutest picture ever, right?! Leuferny (our neighbor girl) turned four in September and started school. This is her brand new school outfit that she wears everyday.

 ...and her brand new Dora the Explorer backpack!

 Ok, so really maybe I should have titled this post "Cute pics of Leuferny". Last week her grandfather came over and told me that Leuferny was in big trouble because she was out playing all day and had not got her hair braided yet. Around 8pm she shows up in my window and asks me to braid her hair. It is a big deal to have tidy braids for school, so even though I had to pack and was exhausted, I agreed. The second I started brushing her hair out the girl falls deeply asleep, not making my job any easier!

This kid. He is not posing for the camera; this is literally how he was lounging in our house.

And not more than one minute later... he's out for the count. He snored on my floor for a good hour or two.

Samiro spent a good hour shooting his little bow and arrow at imaginery animals in front of our house the other day.

This little girl's name is Nunja. She's cute but she's a handful!