Saturday, June 28, 2008

First Glimpse


More will follow soon, but can you imagine that these are our girls Margot, Giovanna, and Susana?? They are in their Quinceañera dresses with their cakes. ¡Qué fiesta tuvimos!! ¡Gau!

Monday, June 23, 2008

Dance, Ballarina, Dance


Toni Brown´s goddaughter, Maddie, did some ballet for the San José kids on Sun. afternoon before heading off to Medical Ministry International for the week. Some kids thought the steps easy...at first! Then they tried to teach some Peruvian dance steps. Padre Ron and Tía Vicki REALLY need to practice!!!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Father's Day Dances





This morning there was a program at San Lucas to honor Fathers. Our Casas kids were involved in all elements of the program from flag ceremony to contemporary dances. You will see Susana in a traditional Peruvian dance, Margot in an Arabic pieces, Miguel Angel and Javier in a jungle outfit and---wait for it----Waldir in a piece from Grease! Everyone seemed to have fun and Padre got a nice hand made pencil holder from Yasmin. Fortunately the program ended just when we needed to leave for the airport to greet the St. Philip's team.

Farewell to Bonnie & Padre Marvin



The San José kids said farewell to Bonnie thanking her for all her art work with them. After a dance or two, tamales and flan, everyone was well content. Juan Diego took every opportunity to touch Padre Marvin who was most patient with him.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

New Toys Arrive


At Christmas our granddaughter, Miss Sadie Shorter, gathered up a bunch of her toys to send down to Arequipa. I was shagrined that I didn't have the camera when I took out some balls, dolls, and nerf things earlier. Tomorrow we will put in batteries and take some wiggly, talkie toys out to San José. Thanks, Sweetie. The kids will love these. (The houseparents will love them, too-probably when the batteries run down!! :=)