Wednesday July 29th

Only two more days until the masks come off. Today was a warmer day and so it was a bit more uncomfortable with them. The kids were very cute today. Lea has developed a fondness for Amy so when Amy puts her down or another volunteer takes her she cries. It is a good thing to see because it shows that they are bonding. Today Mihaela was very generous with her pups (kisses). Alina was a kissing fool too! Gabi was crawling a lot more today as well and she actually tolerated sitting up for about a minute without fussing. She sat on the exercise ball and did a little balancing.
We had a bit of drama at the clinic today. One of the workers backed over one of the dogs and it was a bit hurt. All of a sudden they went to get some food to lure it to walk. It would not put weight on it's back leg. We brought the babies in for lunch and when we came back out the dog was not there anymore. The health inspector stopped by the hospital today as well, which was upsetting because at the same time Dr. Delia's father passed away.
Lunch today was a wonderful hungarian gouloush. And the best part if it was that we got Romanian watermelon for dessert. Very exciting because I have been waiting a year to have some again!
After dinner we went back to the clinic and fed the babies the bottles- they were all very hungry and ate them up quickly. Somehow some of the people mixed up their evening shift times and so for the 5:30 to 6:30 time there were only going to be 2 people to feed 19 kids bottles. So some ended up staying longer to help feed. After 4 we had taken the kids out of their cribs that were awake and brought them outside. There was a slight breeze and all of a sudden an aide came out with socks and sweatshirts for the kids. We brought them back in and gave them their 6 o'clock bottles. We got them all settled and as in their cribs. As we were leaving we could hear Ionela yelling out in her sweet airy-nasally voice Noapte Buna (good night) It was definitely worth staying late to hear that. Mihaela is a little stinker and every time someone was sitting on the floor with a baby in their arm she would come running up and plop in their lap too.
We came back for a chicken dinner concoction and for dessert we had doughnuts that tasted like Grandma's Kolbliky(sp?) yummy. It is hard to believe we are almost done with our first week here.

Alina's hand this year

Lea-Celene and Miha playing nicely together

Alexandra with Susan- she is not the same child as last year. Last year she fed herself and this year she hardly eats at all. She is not as interactive as last year as well.

Mihaela- how can you not love those eyes

The cribs the children used to sleep in until about 5 years ago when Global bought new ones for the clinic

.......By the way cooked carrots at dinner again