Sweet comments from Sophia

In my last blog I told you about Sophie's Sweet Treats and now I'd like to tell you more about it and share some more pictures with you.

Since my sisters all had a special job to do while we were in India, we decided that my special job would be to share the different treats with the kids each day.  I think I had the best job out of everyone!  Each day I would pick a treat and put it in the bag that cousin Sally made for me and when the children would see me with that bag, they would get so excited and ask me if I needed help with anything.  I had so much fun sharing candy with them and seeing them try different treats for the first time in their lives.  I wish I could go back and give them more of Sophie's Sweet Treats, it made me so happy to see them smile!

The first treat was Fruit Gushers


This is Vijaya, she is the Komro's orphan.  When I gave her the treat
I thought of my friends back home.

We also gave out the Candy Necklaces to all the school children that day which were donated by Scoops Deville in Hartford.  They all loved them so much.  Some of the kids ate them right away and some still were wearing them a couple days later.

The funnest treat to give out was the Pop Rocks.  It was so funny watching their faces when they ate them.  Some wanted more and some spit them out.



This is Rajini, she is Manjula's sister and cooked all our food for us.
She made good rice and was really nice!



Fun Dip was another Fun Treat..

I gave out Gummy Worms to everyone on the bus while we were on the way to the beach...

When I gave out Suckers, some of the kids were surprised to find the chocolate in the middle.

They all had fun peeling, braiding and eating the Licorice ...

The last treat I handed out was bags of little Oreo Cookies.  I was handing them out as the orphans were walking out the door after we all said our last good-byes.  We don't have any pictures of this because we were all crying to hard at this point.

That's all I have to say about the Sophie's Sweet Treats, but wait there's more...

You know we went to the beach and I just wanted to tell you how much fun we had.  I couldn't believe how big the waves were, I could hardly stand up in them.  They kept knocking us all over.  It was so funny watching the orphans run into the water, then when the waves would come they would run back.

On the way there, Siddu (Jackie Nieman's little boy) had put white powder all over his face.  I don't know why he did but he sure looked cute.

The best part about being with the orphans, was that they called me "Akka", that means "older sister" in Telegu.  It's the only time in my life when I wasn't the "Chellie" that means "younger sister".  I loved being an Akka!

The last part of our trip was the Safari up by the Himalaya Mountains.  It was really fun.  I liked riding on the elephants the best.

I would just like to add, that if you ever go to a remote village, you should look past the scary things and look for the good things, because the good things can help make the scary things seem not so bad.  I am very happy I got the chance to go to India and can't wait to go back!  Thank you to everyone who helped us go on this trip.

Love, Sophia

p.s.  Morgan, thank you for sending me the note, it made me smile!  Also Megamind is a great movie, I watched it all the way home too.  I can't wait to play Cream Puff with you!

Here's what Loobie has to say...

Hello this is Loobie signing in.
Well we are back from our trip and I would like to share a few thing with you! First
do you remember the blog about painting the kids hands and making the rainbow, well let me tell you those kids did not get one drop of paint on themselves, not even the nursery kids. But then there's me and the moment they are all done I go and spill half the can on myself!  Whoopsies!

The funny or maybe not so funny part is, is that we didn't realize there was lead in the paint until we got to the airport and the buzzer went off when I was getting scanned.  I had to lift my skirt up and didn't know that I still had paint on me from when I spilled.  When she waved the wand over the paint spot...BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!  There you have it, how embarrassing...like mother, like daughter.




This I must say is really FUNNY ...
there is this little boy (who am I kidding, they're all little) at the school,
Every time we walked past him, He would start to cry, and I mean Really ball!

But the really funny thing is, he couldn't get enough of us. We would walk past him and he would start to cry but then we would wave at him and he would wave back (still crying). We would walk past him again and the teacher would try and take him away but he would pull away and stare at us.   Poor little guy :(


On the Sunday we were at their Church, there was this really cute little boy who was sitting about 7 feet away from me and throughout the service he got a little closer, and a little closer until he was leaning on my leg.

Isn't he cute, by the end of the service we were holding hands!


Those were a couple of little memories, this one has a lot more pictures.
It was after the Beach party that we went to the restaurant and while we were waiting for our food we would play games. I taught Abishek, Nithen, Swamya, Sravani, Syamala and Apparao how to play Hot potato, but not one of the games could match up to eating ice cream



Big Daddy and Solomon



Some of us we're still full from Dinner

But at the end of the Day, They all we're Happy

Here are some pictures that I just wanted to share with you...

When I look back at the time I spent getting to know all these children and how I've fallen in love with them all, it makes me want to do whatever I can to help them.  I hope through these pictures and stories you will know how important this ministry really is to all these little "shine brites" (as my mom would say).

Thanks for following along with us! 

That's It for now,

signing off  ~Lobbie a.k.a. Olivia