Busy, Busy, Busy

It was a great day!  I started with helping Alix with some of the therapy with the babies and the special-needs kids.  I got to work with Phonsley again which was awesome.

Meal times were okay.  The nannies let Brilner feed himself a bit, but they get impatient and finish for him.  I don't think they really let any of the other kids that I worked with feeding on try to eat by themselves.  I'm disappointed, but I also understand.  It takes lots of time to help kids learn how to feed themselves.

Gertrude and I walked over to see the land where we might raise the chickens.  It's a nice piece of property.  I would like to see the chicken project happen there, but Gertrude really wants to do it at the orphanage.  I don't know what is best, but I will follow Gertrude's lead on this one.  It would be much easier for the kids to learn how to take care of them if the chickens were onsite.

After taking a bit of break in the early afternoon, my friend Oriol was able to come over.  We went out to Kokoye for a bite to eat.  It was so good to see him again!  He was really surprised when I left because he had forgotten that I was leaving at the end of May, so he never really felt as if he had the chance to say good-bye.

As I write this, it doesn't as if I did a whole lot, but the day flew by and I felt busy all the time.  Hmm.  Wonder what that's about.

One of the coolest things to see was that Christina can actually pull herself up using core muscles!  She could never have done that months ago.   And, she never would have wanted to!  Alix has made great progress with her.

I'm bummed.  I just tried to download pictures from from iPad to this blog, but I can't figure out how to do it.  It won't let me.  I wanted you all to see pictures of the kids today.

I hope to figure it out later so that you can see pictures and not just have to read about my trip.  I want you to be able see parts of my trip.