Our Pfun Pfeil Pfriends :)

One of my favorite things about being a missionary kid was all the other missionary kids who felt like my family. Our team is still blessed with many MKs and I am so thankful for each one of them. Right now, there are 9 pre-school-age kids here on the team! The Pfeils have three of those kids, and we are super thankful for them. We have really enjoyed serving with them, doing college ministry together, adjusting to new little babies together, and just being friends. We also trade baby sitting with them often, so that we can have date nights. As you can imagine, those are always fun nights, knowing what it would be like if we have 5 kids, all 15-17 months apart and twins at the end We actually really enjoy it and are so thankful for the sweet friendships between the kids, and our growing friendship with Jon and Sarah. God is so good.
Calvin and Martha are only 10 days apart in age and it’s great to watch them grow together. The other day Sarah and I did a little photo shoot of them, since professional baby pictures are so expensive here in Japan. We got some cute ones of them together too:kisses for a friend!During a date night/play date. Don’t they look like they’ve been caught in mischief?holding hands
Olivia and Annabella (Noa calls her “Abba”) are like big sisters and the sweetest playmates for Noa. She learns so much from them and they are so patient and kind to her.
They taught Noa her original funny face and the three of them continue to create all sorts of sillinessThe other day, the three of them had a blast playing dress-up with my head scarves.group hug!We are so thankful for these special friends!

To give you an idea of our excitement for getting to play with these friends, here’s a conversation Noa and I had the other day:
Me: Noa, do you want to go to Abba and Olivia’s house?
Noa (squealing and clapping her hands): Yea! (She runs to put on her shoes).
As I am getting Martha strapped into her seat, Noa comes over to her and grabs her hand, gets her face real close, and in her best mama-talking-to-a-baby-in-a-really-high-voice impersonation says,”Baffa, pay Alvin’s house? Yea?” (Martha, play Calvin’s house?, yea?). Hilarious little interaction that showed me two things:
1:Everyone should be as excited as Noa is to go to her friends’ house. She couldn’t help but share that joy with her sister and make sure she was just as excited to play with her little friend.
2:My daughter is learning more from me than just words. I am always amazed at how she mimics my tone and pitch in many things, especially when interacting with Martha. Makes me want to be so careful about how I speak to people, especially their father, as little ears hear and copy so much of what I say and how I say it.

Tags: Friends, Japan, Martha, Missions, Noa