Teac is loving his train again. I think he played with it for at least 2 hours on and off... pretty good attention span for a 2 year old.

Today one of the ladies in the ward took me to the open market in the center of town. I am wishing now that I had taken my camera... at the time I didn't want to get it stolen. We bought lots of veggies... saw pumpkins two feet high.... just huge, and fruit. They make a lot of juice here from all sorts of interesting fruits. I need to take some pictures of those. I bought tomatoes to make my own sauce, orages to squeeze and freeze, veggies to blanch and freeze, a pumpkin to cook, liquify, and freeze for breads and pie.... I even want to make pumpkin soup since I have had it several different places now and it is delicious. Poor Teac got really tired at the market and fell asleep on the way home... and I am exhausted from carrying Ethan in the sling and chasing down Teac. Not sure if I have the energy to take care of all of this food today... hopefully it will keep until tomorrow.

The good news is I have only 5 pounds to go, and a lot of toning, to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. So I can put most of my pants on- some are more comfortable than others, but tight pants are the fashion here so that helps (ha ha ha).

Delilas was right. It takes a lot of adjusting when you are used to having help around the house to now, when I don't have any. I am not sure if we are going to get someone now... maybe just to babysit on the weekends when we need it. Or maybe I really should get someone to come and clean these bathrooms.... the girls can learn to do their own but that still means work for mom to check up on them etc. It only took me the 2 hours Ethan was asleep for his morning nap to get all of the floors swept and mopped and the kitchen cleaned up yesterday. The thing is, that means Teac is off doing something by himself- watching TV or playing with toys. He comes in and checks on me every once-in-a-while or when he needs food. If someone else is cleaning, I could do something fun with him instead. We'll see.