Babies and More Babies

This weekend was great... I spent Friday night chatting on IM, then a good dose of audioverse, then off to sleep I went. Sabbath was a nice outdoor church service with a good sermon about how we've forgotten to love our neighbor as ourselves, in which the preacher went on to give examples of several instances that are normal in today's society which demonstrate that we do not love one another as our Father has loved us... it's more of an "Every Man for Himself" society, and we as Christians should do away with that kind of mentality. After church we all had a nice picnic right outside, and then we sat around and sang old school African church songs (songs like Onge, and other African Voices favorites :D) with Tio Terencio often taking totally unsolicited solos... he was hilarious and SOOO reminded me of my dad when he used to walk around the house singing like he meant serious business... hahaha
Then I went home, found out water AND electricity were gone on my block, and decided not to rough it out and go spend the night at the Tadeus instead :) It was a good choice, as I got to catch up with Elsa and Chinha and play with baby Edilson, who has become SUCH a little man, he's starting to talk! It seems like just yesterday we were curiously talking about his crusty little bellybutton when he was brought home from the hospital... now he walks and almost talks and constantly wreaks havoc... too cute.
Sunday consisted of music class in the morning, as usual... then a quick trip to the Shoprite, the South African version of Walmart, to check if they had finally re-stocked on veggie meat (which to my delight, they had! YUMMM!) and then off I went to Sonia's to meet baby Adriel. He's already 2 months old and I still hadn't met him so it was about high time I did. Good thing I decided to forego doing laundry (I'll pay for that later... I feel the almost-filled-to-capacity hamper scowling at me from the corner of the room every time I pass by :S) to spend some time with the squirmy little bundle and his hilarious momma instead :) Some pictures of the visit:

Such a cutie-patootie!

My newest little friend :)

He kept taking mini-naps, much to his mother's chagrin

Stay asleep for more than 5 minutes, will ya???

It was fun to catch up with Sonia... she makes the terrors of delivering a baby in the Angolan health system (think more than one patient per bed, understaffed maternity wards, and mean nurses that have become totally desensitized to mothers screaming from the pain...) sound like a scene straight out of a sitcom. It was so funny the way she told it... but really nothing I'd like to experience... or maybe I would just so I could tell yall about it from a first-hand account!