Samuel’s 6th birthday. This was Sam’s happiest birthday, this was his first birthday where guest were invited to share is birthday alone. In the past we just celebrated it with every one else or earlier on with no one else. Though it was still the children from the orphanage it was just the young children and Sam like it a lot.

Joe was quick to jump on the candles so we lit them again continued singing.



Preparing for Christmas the children made ornaments and decorated the tree this year with the bits of craft materials we had around.




The children helped make their birthday cakes this time, and made some sugar cookies.

Christmas day for us was the 26th.
Joe was dressed and ready.









Birthday game in the after noon.
Ly got to go first.


Vicheka

Joe

Chan Chow

Rachana


Most of the children are wearing the outfits they chose to buy this year on their Christmas shopping trip. Not necessarily my taste but it is a weird style here in the village.

Staff gift was a purce, shoes, lotians and some other things.

Brightly colored outfits, this is my basket fruit picture.






For the birthday this year I found some of those relighting candles that caught them completly by surprise. It ws perfect they blew them out and then one popped up again. The children were stund they did not have any idea what was happening. It took like two minutes to finally be blown out. You can see the thick smoke that began to rise as the children laid down a thin layer for spit from all the blowing. I had less cake this time.
This was great for Sam however as he loves to blow out the candles.