ouch.

Just so all you snow-birds know, there IS a downside to all the gorgeous weather January brings us...Haiti is swarming with large red fire ants year round.  Their bites feel like wasp stings that burn and itch for a long time, and yesterday, as all the kids were playing in the yard, Lily managed to lay down in a huge mound of them.

Poor girl's hair, face and arm was just crawling with them, and she headed off to school today looking like she had some kind of chicken-pox.  It was a terrible hour to be a little girl and her mother ("I'm all boo-boo-ey!" Lily kept wailing), but we're really thankful for Sarah who jumped to my aid, dousing Lily in water and pulling them out of her hair, and then fixing us up with some kind of awesome bite numbing spray.  

That, marshmallows I've been saving for a special occasion and her first viewing of "Aladdin" made it all better :)

Back at week number 2 for our visiting professors and students!