That's s-not a fruit...or is it?

This fruit is called - "Guanadilla" but also called "snot fruit". It has a hard outer shell that is yellowish/tan about the size of a tennis ball. The when broken open soft white pulp surrounds a transparent sac of black seeds which are eaten. The typical fashion of eating a guandadilla is by making a small hole, and then quickly slurping as much of the seeds into your mouth as you can. It tastes sweet almost like grapes. If you can get past the texture, they are really health, the fruit contains vitamins A, C, and K, phosphorus, iron, and calcium.

Our other favorite fruits include: mango, white-pineapple, and of course bananas!

Grandma Diem Visits Costa Rica

Thank you for your prayers!

Our family is on the mend now. Elliott was still having some loose BM (day #5) the poor little guy. Josiah still does not have his apatite back, but is loving the fact that he is getting soda, and juice to drink. Steve is feeling much better, we had our first real dinner together since the sickness struck Tuesday night. We had been eating random things for dinner, like oat meal, or crackers, or fruit. We had an adventure today! The key broke when Steve went to lock the front gate, and we were just going to go to the park near our house. We ended up playing at the park for a little bit, going to get another key made, buying our water for the week, and paying our bills. We are the only ones in this city with keys to our house, so we just made an "adventure" out of it, and the kids thought it was great! We were thankful the key shop was open! Hope you all had a wonderful Sunday afternoon, praising God!

Becky, for the Diems

Please pray!

Hello everyone!
Thank you for taking the time to read our blog, I know a lot of people read this and pray for us often. I am posting this to ask you for your prayers for our family. I was sick Tuesday and Wednesday, and now it is going through our family very quickly. Elliott was up all Tuesday night vomiting and has had the "big D" for three days now. Steve and Josiah were up all night last night vomiting, and have not eaten very much of anything to day. I did lots of laundry and disinfecting today. I called the Doctor and he gave me some Spanish names for common things like pidialite is "swadol" and Dramamine is "gravol". I walked to the pharmacy with my friend Leanne and Elliott. The people there were so helpful as I am sure I was butchering the pronunciation of these medicines. Sorry this is not a fun post with pictures! I need Steve's help for that, and right now him and Josiah are snuggling on the couch, as they should be given the situation! Thank you for your prayers!
Becky, for the Diems

Parque de la Paz

Last weekend we went with some friends to a park near us. The boys enjoyed sledding down the hill together in a cardboard box. They love flying kites there too or just watching all the others fill the sky. Elliott enjoyed his first horse ride. Half way through he was talking to the horse as if he could understand everthing he said. Classes are going well, this trimester is a lot more work. The concepts are growing one on top of the other. We trully love the language and enjoy speaking with anyone who has time to. Steve's mom is here for a visit for a week! She just got in late last night, we have tomorow off of school so we are hoping to show her around the city a little and let her see what life is like here. This morning we put some old bananas in the avacado tree to atract different kinds of birds. Josiah said "hey mom, look our avacado tree is growing bananas now too" I think he still thinks that this is the case! Oh to be three again! Thank you for your prayers! Becky, for the Diems