Fly Swatters & Mosquitos

So, I was sitting on Lucas' bed writing this blog in my mind when whzzzzzzzzz - ANOTHER mosquito flew by my ear. Aargh! Good thing we have a fly swatter! We didn't think to bring one to Africa so we consider it the best gift given to us by another missionary family. They understood the need for each family to own one!

So, let's talk mosquitos. We rarely find any in Alexis' room but there are always some in Lucas' room. Each night before we put him to bed we check the whole room and yes, they do hide in the toys but mostly on the walls and curtains. We check his room again before we go to sleep a couple of hours later. Last night we missed one so we moved a sleeping Lucas to the living room and went on mosquito patrol. Good thing we did because we got four of 'em! Then we found 2 in our room so you can quickly see how much our fly swatter gets used!

The good news is that during the dry season (right now) we have only 3 main flying bugs that invade our house and the mosquitos are the only ones we keep an eye on. The flies would rather have our food and the heart-shaped ones just stay on the walls. During the rainy season we add 2 more fun ones. Then we have mango flies which can give a person mango worms (not fun-you get rid of the possibility of mango worms by ironing ALL your clothes and yes, that includes socks and underwear). We also have these really weird slow-flying black bugs. I don't know what they do but they are certainly the least fun to look at.

Well, I was going to say on a positive note that I hadn't seen a cockroach in a long time but I got one in the bathroom last night. Rats! Oh, wait...that was just an expression! Thank goodness we don't have those too!