Walkin' and Talkin'

As often as my schedule allows, I like to go for a walk with our youngest kids. They are all two years old going on three years over the next four months. It is amazing to me how fast they have grown up. They talk a mile a minute. Most of what they say is in their own language…not sure what that language is sometimes, but it is a mix between baby talk, English and Kiswahili.
I talk to all the kids in English because they are surrounded by our workers who speak to them in Kiswahili. I want our kids to be fluent in both languages. For the most part our youngest (we have had with us since they were newborn) are doing good with both languages.
So when we go for our walks I try to point things out to them and tell them what it is in English. Now that they are talking all the time and are used to our routine of walking and talking and pointing out all objects near and far, they point out EVERYTHING to me. Let’s see…on our last walk they pointed out about 25 cars, 15 big trucks, 20 chickens, 2 cows, 4 maaaaaaa (that is the sound a goat makes…for some reason they like to make that sound before saying goat), 3 cats, 5 dogs (or puppies, they call them both), 5 flowers, 4 fires (people burn their trash here), 8 birds, 2 airplanes, 2 poop piles (they point the poop out with utter shock), the force of the wind (they find the wind very fascinating) and when they see the women carrying bananas on their head they say “No money, no banana.”
I haven’t gone for a walk with these little guys for about two weeks…I miss our walks and their excited screams over seeing a big truck for the 15th time in 5 minutes. I think I need to put it in my schedule to take a nice long walk with them tomorrow!