Elijah's Play, Work & Daddy

This post is from Elijah:
"I have been playing with them and they have kind of made up their own wrestling games. I love playing soccer and tag with them, mostly soccer. My legs are more used to soccer than running all the time like tag. There is one little boy who loves hugging me and I have given him about a million hugs now! It makes me smile and then it makes him smile and then he goes off and plays with the other kids.



I have kind of gotten close to the maintenance guys because I go there many days and learn things and I have made my own collection of things that look like nails but are not nails and can not be used again. I don't know what I am going to with them myself, but I am going to figure something out. I have the maintenance guys with many things. I have made a wooden fish, and I have helped with a new house that is being built. I am learning many things from them such as how to measure tubes, how to put up gutters, and how to use a hammer.




I am definitely ready to have dad home because he has been gone for a month and I miss him so so so much. I miss him because he plays tickle monster, tag and hide-n-seek and he reads to me a lot. Daddy is gone because he is on a fundraiser right now. He went to our home town, California, and Vancouver where a lot of our Beautiful Gate kids have gone. I know the fundraiser is for good for the kids and staff at Beautiful Gate, but at the same time, I think it is kind of bad because he has been away from our family for so long and we love him. He is coming back Saturday, this week, and I can't wait.
Elijah