Initial reaction... What do I do? Keep walking? NO Run towards them? Don't think I want to do that either. Stand there and wait, arms open with a big smile? YES!
As they reached me all four of them jumped into my arms at the same time, about knocking me on my butt. They were so cute!!! Then as I said hello to each of them individually and asked them their names (which I couldn't really understand until asking 2 or 3 times, and now I can only remember 2 of them) they each grabbed a hold of a part of my hands and just stared and smiled at me.
Because they don't really speak English, after greeting them and asking their names, that's about all the conversation we can have. So I just kind of sat there and stared at them too. After about 10 seconds of that I started brainstorming things I could do with them. Teach them London Bridge Is Falling Down? No. Ring Around the Rosie? No. How about I find a place to sit and if they sit around me then I can think of something for us to do. Deal!
Knowing that just down the walk, close to our house, is a little mound of gravel, I decided that would be a great place to go sit with the kids. So we headed down the walk to go sit down, and as we came up to the house out came Joey, Emily, Spencer and Gloria. They had the bikes and I wasn't quite sure what they were doing, so I stuck to my original plan and took a seat with the kids.
The kids surrounded me on the gravel and as usual immediately started either playing with my hair or playing hand games with me. Plan worked! I found something to do with the kids!
But then I was still trying to figure out what everyone else was doing with the bikes. Then I saw Gloria get on. She didn't look too incredibly thrilled :)
And then Spencer told me they were going to teach Gloria how to ride a bike!
FUN!!! I love riding bikes! It made me very happy that they were teaching Gloria to ride - I had no idea she'd never learned! Apparently no one else did either, so when word got out that she hadn't then it was immediately decided that the situation needed some fixing.
She was a great student! It took very little time and she got the hang of it.
When Gloria, Joey and Emily went into the World Joy house to give Gloria a less bumpy experience so that she could learn to balance better, I continued to play with the kids as Emily snapped a bunch of pictures.
They love to try and climb on us and see how many of them could possibly be carried at once. They're so much fun!
Aren't they just darling!? What a good day!
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