One of the delights of being a parent is watching our children learn to talk.

Most days they say something which makes us smile.

Joshua is more of a doer than a talker.  He only has about ten words which include important vocabulary like ‘aeroplane’ and ‘car’.   Our favourite and his most useful word is ‘Amen’.   We would like to tell you that our son is a very spiritual child but unfortunately that is not the case.  Amen can mean a multitude of things such as ‘I’m hungry’, ‘give me food’, ‘ make the food come quickly please’ and ‘It must be time  to eat soon’. You never knew one word could be so useful, did you!!!

Amy, on the other hand is the one who make my ears sore by the end of the day.

Last week Mark decided it was time to teach her the phonetic alphabet.  After all, she is growing up in an environment surrounded by aviation.  It started well, with Amy repeating after Mark; ‘alpha’, ‘bravo’, ‘charlie’. At this point Amy shouted ‘ooh, Charlie & Lola’, which is a favourite cartoon show.  Mark laughed so hard that they never did get as far as ‘delta’.

Over the years some of you have given monetary gifts for us to spend on the children.  There is little we can buy for them here so instead we saved the money and recently built a climbing frame in the garden.  They love to go out and play on it, so thank you.

Children on climbing frame

Generator for Juba

A generator has been purchased in Uganda for the MAf team in Juba, Sudan. It has been disassembled in our hangar and will be flown this weekend to Juba and then reassembled in a building (which is currently under construction).
Pray for this process. Mark has been involved in dissassembling the generator and will go up to help build it again. More news and pics to follow.  Also remember Sarah at home with the children and pray that all will run smoothly there too.