Last weeks in Bonaire

Hello Hello!

Its been a while since I put anything up. Life, as it always does, got super busy and crazy!

my last couple of weeks of work actually went by super fast. thank goodness. I couldn't wait to get back to my little guy. My last week of work though I got super sick. Super high fever, aches, chills, headache, the works. I even had to miss work one day. Brandon got super sick too. I went to the doctor and the said that it was probably Dengue Fever from the mosquitoes here. not fun. 

 I didn't have to work the last week of April, which was great because it gave me time to pack and clean and get ready for us to move. Move. once again. that makes the 9th or 10th time that I had to pack up everything that we own in suitcases. I'm becoming quite an expert at packing though. I don't even need a scale anymore to weigh our bags. I can get them to 49.5lbs pretty much in my sleep.

Fletch and I had a couple of doctor appointments the last week we were there. First was Fletcher's ultrasound on his hips. Since he was breech he had a greater risk of developing congenital hip displacement so we had to get his hips checked out at three months. 

almost time for the ultrasound

They were perfect. 

Yay!

The next appointment was at the baby clinic. I understood that the appointment was to just pick up photo copies of his records so that I could take them with me to the States and to Curacao, but the ended up giving him his second rounds of shots. Ouchie! he only had his first round 3 weeks earlier and they are supposed to be 6 weeks apart, but since we were leaving and not coming back and all that jazz and because it was vaccination weeks they gave it to him anyway. the saddest part was that I wasn't prepared and I didn't have any medicine for him and we had a dinner appointment and some other stuff came up and so he didn't get any until night time. he was so miserable. I felt terrible. terrible for him, terrible for the Smiths that invited us for dinner and had to have a crying unhappy baby interrupting...

 he is a tough kid though. 

The other stuff that came up was that we got pulled over! that never happens in Bonaire but we did and it turns out the car we were borrowing (we sold our truck at the beginning of April) wasn't registered and all this stuff. we got it all worked out, but it was nerve racking because it happened 4 days before we were leaving the island and we have seen people get pulled off of planes for unpaid parking tickets. we for sure didn't want that to happen to us. 

what else... the car we were borrowing also gave us lots of grief. it died ALL of the time and then wouldn't start. Brandon and I got really good at the old push-start-pop-the-clutch trick. we even got so good we could do it when we were just by ourselves. luckily it was a small enough car that I could run behind it and get it going fast enough that I could just in an pop it. It was pretty stressful, but looking back it is kind of hilarious....crazy americans....

Brandon had his first real patient. our really good friends have 3 kids and the middle one, Don, fell and spilt his head open when brandon and i were there and brandon got to doctor him up. i'm so excited for him to be a real doctor. he really is a natural.

Donny all bandages up

Our last saturday we of course went to the beach. we almost didn't make it because of the car, but we persevered and had an awesome time.

Brandon and the young men

Our last sunday was pretty emotional for me. I got to give a talk and I pretty much cried the whole time. I love the people there so much and was super sad to leave them.

-oh yeah, we also had a branch party/going away party that was really sweet, but Brandon was feeling super sick so he couldn't make it. They made a slide show of our time there and sang us a song. We are going to miss our little branch so much.

we loved our time in bonaire.