TEKOA TIME

What does a two year old American boy do in urban Kenya all day. Well unfortunately because we lack a yard and at that a safe playing environment outside he spends a lot of time inside

That is why Rachel got creative and converted our dirty and cluttered area under the stairs into a cool little reading corner for the boy. A piece of dangling fabric, make shift shelf and a sweet mini carpet is all that was needed. Tekoa loves to sit down and talk through all of his books because he isn't quite able to read through them yet.

On special days the family has time to get out and visit some place with an open area for Tekoa to run. If we let him he would run all day with no real purpose other then to be active.

Of course he also loves to bake with his mother. He puts on his little chef apparel and takes over the mixing and beating and mess making for mom. This is him whipping up some home made hamburger buns for dinner. Usually Wednesday is baking day. It's a loved day by all since it is responsible for glorious treats like cakes and pies and cookies and homemade bread to name a few.

Tekoa does have some friends in the neighborhood of course. This is one of our neighbor boys named Sugar. He's a pretty sweet kid most of the time. He is 5 years old but he doesn't pick on Tekoa too much. Here they are playing in the water at the back of the house because it is shaded. Even the Kenyans don't play in the sun too much during mid day.

One of the other joys in his life is worship (not pictured). He loves to turn the music up and just dance and sing until he's drenched with sweat. All in all Tekoa has a pretty good life. Eat, play and sleep with a few other minor details.