The Ngubus...

 Ok, so that's kind of their last name, but not really b/c in Africa every person has unique last names so it is confusing for us here where families share one last name.  Anyway, these were our new friends from the Democratic Republic of Congo with their English tutor, Nita...they stayed with us during May and June of 2012 because we have a mutual friend of their father's and they were refugees and had just arrived in the U.S. and had a hard time finding an apartment for such a big family of 10!  They have an AMAZING story...and they were all SO HAPPY to be in America....you have no idea...it was like they had won the biggest lottery ever.  The only concern I had was how much the kids loved Obama?! They said it was because he is from Kenya?!? :)  But seriously, it was SO MUCH FUN for me to have them here and to have the company...I LOVED it. 

 Peter and Caroline loved it too...here Caroline had colored herself so she could look more like them!!!

 Anna Kate and J.R. were a little more territorial and not sure about all the sharing :)  Here they are having their first fast-food ever! (It wasn't my kids' first fast food...ha, ha I wish!)  One of the funniest things was how incredibly worried they all were about "getting fat like Americans."  I told them it was all the processed food Americans eat...if they had understood the term "processed food" they would not have eaten this McDonald's :)  

 They would never set Peter down!  They said that babies in Africa NEVER cry...they are ALWAYS held. They were pretty disturbed that we just put Peter down to bed and let him cry a bit before he falls asleep...I just don't really know what else to do with him?!

Climbing neighborhood trees...Caroline thought she "climbed the tree" when she had one foot on the ground the whole time - ha ha!

Oh yes and one more thing...they didn't know any English and spoke French and Lingala (their local language) the whole time so thank goodness for google translate :)