Charles

Meet Charles.
Or shall I say, Kenshin Rurouni.

I honestly don't even really know how to describe Charles. I've been putting off writing about him for a long time, simply because he's a complicated little dude.

Charles is definitely strong willed, stubborn, the man of the house, but also a kid at heart. According to Henry, Charles is a "mechanic." I think he means engineer. Charles can fix pretty much anything. He has fixed my  flashlight on numerous accounts and is always helping fix random things around the house.

Along with being a "mechanic," Charles is pretty good at guitar. He picks it up quite quickly and has even been teaching me a thing or too. But here comes in some of his stubbornness. Charles does not understand music theory whatsoever. We have gotten into arguments about tempo one too many times. It usually ends in, "Ahh...forgive me, Auntie?" or "takeaway" or something of that matter.

And if Charles isn't already a "mechanic" and music genius, let's just throw in the fact that he's also quite good at soccer, or football as they call it here. And even though he's probably the best one in the house, I will never admit to him that he truly is better than me. Because as I said before, this boy is stubborn, and sometimes can be full of himself. We'll just keep him thinking that I am better.

Charles is going to go somewhere in his life. He is beyond smart, in fact he's at the top of his class, and is gifted in so many areas of hi life. If only we could get him to not just read scripture about food! Just kidding. But seriously, I feel like anything he reads to the NCFH out of the Bible is about food. But hey, he's a teenage boy.

And if he's not found playing football or guitar, then he's most likely somewhere causing mischief with Henry, his BFF, or in the kitchen doing some Avatar or Wolverine moves and voices. 

And at the end of the day, Charles is a gentle soul. He loves his aunties and uncles dearly and lets them know how much he truly does love and care about them.

Please pray that Charles will continue to do well in school and will start to become a leader in the house when it comes to following Christ. Please also pray that he will no longer choose to watch Avatar for movie nights, or talk the other children into watching it. The aunties don't like watching that cartoon!