Gigi....

Gigi is the little girl who lives next door. And for some unfathomable reason, she adores me haha. Let me just say first that she can be the MOST ANNOYING thing in the world... for example, one morning after service when I desperately needed a nap... there was Gigi... in my room... jumping on my bed and on me, telling me to wake up... haha and then when she's here and she wants to do something, she wants to do it NOW, not wait for me to finish whatever random thing that I was previously working on... but she can also melt my heart like no other haha... when I was in Dourados last week and didn't come home until later sunday night, apparentally Gigi came over the next morning at 7am, waiting for me... luckily they didn't wake me up haha so I got some rest that I was looking forward to... Then I didn't end up seeing her until last night, when her and her father were coming home on his motorbike and a ball came careening across the way & he swerved and the bike and company fell over. Luckily, they weren't too badly injured, but had a lot of scrapes and bruises. I didn't find this out til later when her dad came over to get me and elza because Gigi wanted me to pray for her. So we all went over there & everybody was like "Gi! Nikki's here!" (b/c I still hadn't seen her again since I left for Dourados) and she came walking up to me slowly, pouting, with big scrapes on her forehead and body and just wrapped her arms around me in a big hug... I wasn't sure if I wanted to cry or laugh, it was just so sweet... So we prayed for her & I stayed there for awhile watching A Bugs Life in portuguese with her and her brother... And needless to say, when I got up this morning, there was Gigi, waiting downstairs for me to play with her... Life is certainly interesting here in Brasil... :)