February 2020: "The Georges in Peru"

For lunch today we went to Papa John's Pizza to celebrate summer camps being over for the season.  The last camp, an equestrian camp, finished yesterday and we came home in the pouring rain.  Thankfully, all the parents were able to pick up the kids in spite of a few roads being closed because rain destroys desert city roads unprepared for large amounts of water.  

This morning I had a two-month-old with an extra toe on his right foot.  Polydactyly, as it is called, is fairly common.  They say it happens every 500 births.  (wouldn't it be cool if 1 in 500 people were born with tails?)  If you are thinking, 'It can't be that common, I've never seen it,' it's because most parents have them removed from their babies shortly after birth.  I've seen polydactyly several times in my career. 

Today marks 20 years since we arrived in Peru!  This is a picture of our first place before we had any furniture.  Someone loaned us a table and a high chair and for chairs we sat on our Action Packers.  It looks like a pretty bleak lunch of 7-Up and ketchup.  I know we had something else to eat.  Probably potatoes.  

This is the most dogs I've ever seen sleeping in one spot during the day:  11