A busy week

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We were so busy this week!  Some highlights:

 - Raja says "amma" now.  Not totally sure if he knows he is referring to me, but he says it around me the most.  He loves sitting up so much now that he will really growl if he forgets how to sit himself up and needs some help.  He is also busy trying to crawl, although it is more of a lunge in his case.  He is so strong, we have to be very careful about what we leave around him - he grabs anything in sight, and has an iron grip.  

- Jaya has been telling us at night what she plans to do "tomorrow."  She has also been asking to pray herself, with our help.  She also told me the other day, mama, you look cute. She resists her naps often, too excited by what she might miss while asleep.  Lately, Raja has been sleeping in longer than Jaya (so I have been too!).  So when he wakes up and she hears him, she gets so excited and yells, "Raji's awake! Raji's awake!  We have to go see him!"  She runs into the room and Raja is all grins and giggles at his sister.  It is so cute!

- The Academy students are there to learn how to operate a business.  (Hence, the Academy for Creating Enterprise).  So some of them asked me to teach them how to bake banana-coconut cake and oatmeal cookies, and they have been selling them.  It has been really fun, and neat to see if things I cook would actually sell. They sold out the first day, and have continued to since.  Kind of a neat way to see if there is a  possibility that maybe one day I could actually make money doing something I like to do even for free.  

- Our house feels more and more "normal," as we often have visitors and dinner guests, just like in the States.  

-The weather has been hot and humid but bearable.  Not sure if it's the weather, or we've just become accustomed to it.  In either case, it's nice!