This morning began as the others did this week...but now first doing devotions and trying to madly post many of the blogs that I was not able to post over the past week of my internet modem stick not working. We headed to the Toddler House once again to cut veggies and serve breakfast and then took the kiddos to the enclosed pavilion to play. LaDonna (a lady from FL that is working towards the adoption of one of the toddlers) came by to say goodbye to her Wilson. She left a purse with sunglasses for another toddler, Nicole. Nicole has been to the doctor in Tegucigalpa 3 times in the last 2 weeks because she is rapidly losing weight and they are not sure why. She says she's 4 years old (although her charts say she's 5) and she weighs less now than she did 2 years ago. Nicole is a spunky little girl who has taken a preference to hanging out with me any time I'm around. When others extend their hands out to her to hold her, she refuses and snuggles in to me even closer. We're hoping that whatever is going on gets figured out quickly. Please keep her in your prayers.
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Around 9:45 we decided to take all of the kids for a walk. Sometimes they walk to the farm, but today we walked to the front of the orphanage so that they could all look out the gates at the world outside Emmanuel. As many from the Alabama team were watching the toddlers at the gates, MacKenzie spent time working with the teen moms in team-building activities like doing the human knot, trust falls, and then the circular sit. Okay, I made up the name for the last one because I'm not sure exactly what it's called, but I can describe it...everyone stands in a tight circle, your toes to the heels in front of you and on the count of 3 you all sit down. If it's done correctly, you're all sitting on the lap of the person behind you...if it's not done correctly, you fall down.
When it got close to lunch, we headed back with the kids to the Toddler House to serve lunch and put them down for naps. This afternoon there were no classes, so the teen moms got to stay back at their houses. When I headed back to the Toddler House to wake the kiddos up from the naps, I brought the "famous" chili suckers back to the houses for the teen moms and all of the other workers there. They were so excited. You see, many people come to the Baby House and the Toddler House to give attention to the babies and toddlers (of course)...but it's rare for the teen moms to get attention. I was glad that this was a day where they were recognized and worked with!
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