Jan Hai

(this photo is courtesy of TOBY :) )
I'm dedicating this post to a little boy who has made me smile every Sunday I've seen him
In case you don't know, Jan Hai is a little Laotian Boy of about 2 or 3 years old
He comes to my Church every sunday. we pick him up.
and then after church we take him to lunch and back home and i get to play with/babysit him :)
Jan Hai can;t speak English yet. but it doesn't really matter. you can tell when he is happy or frustrated or angry or confused or tired.
Happy=smiling/screaming (in happiness/excitement)
Frustrated/confused=hands up and shrugging, eyebrows furrowed and a look of bemusement on his face (this interchanges with a look of 'this thing should work but it doesn;t what is wrong with it' coupled with short sharp sighs)
Angry=yelling/hitting (once when i continually sabotaged his efforts to get his 5th drink from the vending machine he bulldozed me)
Tired=hands up and asking for a cuddle/carry.
Every sunday i look forward to seeing him because its really fun (albeit challenging) thinking of new things to do with him and new words to teach him.
Once we played bubbles and he successfully poured about half the bottle down his shirt :)
and another time we were teaching him how to say Monkey and he kept pronouncing it as Gungy :)
and this is the quote i found just begins to describe his vitality and intelligence and desire to explore

Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.

YODA, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones