Funny, as I just wrote that headline, I thought about someone who was new at learning English would read that and may have a hard time with the two words being so similar, but so different. Funny how you can see things through different eyes when you are learning a new language yourself.
Lots of new things happening around here. Probably the biggest thing that we have to announce is that we are going to have another baby! Yippee! My first thought was a little bit of shock, but then excitement to welcome another Crane baby to this world. Maybe a girl????? Who knows....All we can hope for is a healthy baby. Caleb is requesting a girl because his closest friend's mommy just had a baby girl, so he wants to follow suit. Really, we would be happy either way. I have to go see a Dr. to find out how far along I am, so I don't know a due date, I am thinking sometime in June....so we will see.
Language is going well. I have been a little encouraged as we have been doing a Sunday School class with one of our teachers and so I have realized that I can tell the story of the Good Samaritan, Paul and Silas in prison, David and Goliath, and Noah and the Ark in Arabic. So that has been encouraging. I have also been able to visit with my neighbor a couple of times, which has been good. She has four boys, and she is only 28 years old. Oh my goodness.....she was married when she was 14. I cannot imagine. Today the boys and I went to their house and she taught me how to make an Arabic dish called Maqluuba, which is rice and chicken, with vegetables in it. It was very good! Her mom was there today as well, so I got lots of practice speaking and stumbling through my Arabic. Amazing thing too, her mom is only 44 and has 10 kids, and who knows how many grandchildren. She started counting them all, but after about 14 or so we got interrupted and were on to another topic. It was a very interesting evening.
One thing that was strange to me while we were there, and this is very random. But at one point after we finished eating dinner, the grandma was holding Mason and she asked me something about biting. I thought she was asking me if he bites me, because he has some teeth now, and so I replied and told her he has a few times. But then her and her daughter continued to talk and I realized that they were asking me if I ever bite him. Strange! Ya know, because he is so cute and you just want to eat him? So a few minutes later the grandma grabs her grandson who is 2 years old and bites the heck out of his cheek. I mean, she grabbed him. Held him. Took his cheek between her teeth and bit down hard and for a good 10 seconds or so while he screamed. It was one of the stranger things I have observed. Afterward Caleb looked at me with the most puzzled look on his face and said, "why did she just bite him like that?" To which I replied, "uh, I don't really know.....he's cute?"
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