Our First Bonding Trip, May - 2014

At the end of May after we finished up our mission trip in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, we were able to stay over three days and do some bonding with our boys.  We picked them up from their orphanage and took them to stay with us at an American hotel with swimming pool.  We had a blast.  We had Cherdinor's 7th birthday party and present for them both.  We had a great time.  The only thing that took from our stay was Christy being sick with stomach problem and Cherdinor just getting over Chikungunya.  He had just stopped running fever but his feet hurt him every night and he woke up crying.   The highlight of this trip was the flushing toilets.  They wanted to go to the bathroom all of the time to flush the toilets and wash there hands.  Afterward they would get a little bit of lotion and they loved this.  They had to be watched though because they kept flushing things down the toilet. My favorite thing to here them say was "pitsy, pitsy crem pou mwen?"

They had never been to a swimming pool so they were scared to death of the water.  My son and I could barely get them in the water but they did enjoy sitting around the pool and playing with the water.  They loved the bubbles and the balloons, too.  They were also afraid of the candles on the birthday cake, or it could have just been the fire, but we could not get them to blow the candles out.

We had a great time and I will put some pictures and video on this post to let you live some of our trip with us.

I did get Chikungunya when we got back to the US and had 101.0 or greater fever for 7 days and acute joint pain with a rash.  It was miserable and I understood why Cherdinor cried every night. 

 

Sorry, Madelyn, the only family member not present.

Cherdinor has fever over 100 in this picture.

 

Birthday bags with their presents that they carried around all three days.

 

My first Bible bedtime story in Haitian Creole. (My favorite picture)

 

New clothes - The best.

 

Pool time

 

I was getting a shampoo, but it was a spit shampoo.

 

 

We were playing with bubbles.

 

 

Davidson is settling down for nap time can't you tell.

 

 

 

 

Our First bonding trip was amazing and I would not change a thing except we would have liked to put them in our luggage and carry them home with us.  I wish Madelyn and Darby could have been with us, also.  This post is a little late but we had fun our trip in May, 2014.