Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Update from PNG!
Hi again everyone, it has been awhile since our last update so we thought it was time to do another one.
We have an eventful few weeks since Morgan and I returned the first time from Australia. It was a great trip for us, especially just finding out what to do with the tooth. The dentist was very good and very comforting. So they ended up putting a “splint” on the tooth and the two next to it. This was to stabilize it, and after this last dentist appointment, it did just that. Rich took Morgan last week to Australia again for the removal of the splint, and a check. He was very happy with how it was progressing, it looked healthy no grey colors etc. So that was very good. The tooth is stable she is still not eating hard foods, apples etc., but she is eating most other things. We are very thankful for the progress she has made.
Rich left on Thursday last week, and was back on Saturday, it was a whirlwind trip. They both were pretty tired after the journey. Morgan came back with a cold, but seems to be on the mend now. They stayed with some friends of ours from North Australia days, so that was a great time to catch up. We are hoping to get back to visit them when we aren’t rushing off to the dentist!
While they were away josh and I kept fairly busy. We had a few things on the go, like the monthly Mt. Hagen Ladies lunch, it was also a farewell for Esther. Friday we had a very nice visit from our MAF friends from Goroka, they are also from Canada, and it was a very nice visit and fun for Josh to have a play and no school while Morgan was away.
Rich is doing well and is beginning to feel a bit better the allergies seem to be subsiding now that he has figured out what it “might” be. He found out from our friend, who has similar symptoms that it could be tropical dust mites. So we are doing a few preventative things for that and it seems to be working.
Josh is still enjoying all the varied things around here. Yesterday he was very excited and that is putting it mildly!! He came rushing inside and told me there was a man selling a snake at the gate. He went on to describe this snake and asked if I would go look at it!!!! I didn’t……. He went out and looked again, then rushed in even more excited and eyes popping out of his head, saying “the man asked me if I wanted to buy it” so….. I asked what did you say “I said YES!” All the while he is telling me this; his body is vibrating, with excitement! He thought he would be buying this snake and that 40 Kina would be too much for it. It sounded like a fairly good size snake. I suppose it would have to be, as it would not be a pet for the nationals, but dinner. So anyway that was our excitement yesterday. Rich has asked for a “small” snake from one of the bush strips he goes into for Josh. I had to make sure he clarified what SMALL meant!
Well what a difference a day makes, we are past the TALKING about the snake to oh boy here is the snake. Yesterday Rich came home with a small Green Tree Python; Josh was a little excited to say the least. He sounded a bit like the small son on Swiss Family Robinson, after he caught his tiger. He said “I got my tiger” over and over. Josh said the same thing, ‘I got my snake’. Some of us are more excited than others, Morgan and I am not as enamored! In fact I locked everyone out of the house until we laid some ground rules down, the first and most important is the cage and snake are kept outside on the deck!! I thought that was fairly important to get straight.
Love & Prayers
