A Change in Our Daily Schedule - Again

Okay, first and foremost, I want to thank my great friend Sandi, one of my 'S Group / Hot Florida Mom' friends, for the cutest dress ever! When I met Z, she was too little for this size 12 month plaid dress, but just today we tried it again, and walaaah it nearly fit. Must be all that good fruit juice I am feeding her. She looked so darn cute! Thank you so much for sending the dress to us before I left Sandi, it was so thoughtful and so appreciated, and even though we didn't get to wear it for Christmas as planned, we will get good wear out of it for the rest of winter! I did have to put some pajama pants under the tights though because the caregivers would have kicked my butt had I not, she would have just been too cold with only tights. They are pretty finicky here. :) hehehe

The 4th photos is of Z trying to steal her bottle, which is already empty I might add, from her diaper bag. Poor kid is hungry! :)

Our normal daily schedule:

Ceric picks me up around 9:45 and I arrive at the baby house around 9:55. I stay until just before noon and then return the hotel or go shopping. I then come back from about 4:00 and leave again at just before 6:00.

Well last week I was asked to please come to my afternoon visit just a bit earlier so I can feed Z. Happily I said. And now yesterday, I was asked to also come to our morning visits about 15 minutes earlier so I can also feed Z. No problem at all!

Well…..today I found out that the reason they want/need for me to come to feed Zahri is because she is too much to now handle in the group. Hahaha I guess that when it is time for feeding she cries, until they feed her,which makes them have to feed her first, she then now wants for them to hold her after feeding, or she cries again. They said that she is now just too spoiled (they use that word a lot) and it is difficult for them in the Baby Room. That is so funny to me. They also mentioned that she now steals the other baby’s toys. Why is this so funny to me? I am not sure, but I love it! She is coming into her own. She is realizing what it feels like to be a normal, happy, loved child. This is so good! I am happy to feed her, I would rather do that anyhow. My girl has the fight of flight thing figured out, she is going to get her food, and her toys, one way or another. She isn’t just going to sit back and lay down in her crib any longer! But then again, they said that she has always been a bit vocal about being hungry.

The word ‘spoiled’ is used a lot here, once the babies are bonding with their new families, they blossom and that tends to cause a bit of chaos in their baby rooms. The caregivers are not mad about this, I am sure that it is just more challenging for them as they are used to a certain routine, and certain behaviors from each child, and now, we give them love, one on one time, and they start craving that. The poor caregivers just can’t give that to them though, they are really only there to meet their most basic needs because that is all the time they realistically have.

Today one of the caregivers got a bit upset because one of the babies was having a tough time going potty, he screams, he cries so hard, it is traumatic for him, so his parents again asked what they might be able to do. An orphanage doctor came in and asked to see his file. It seems that this has been going on for some time, but of course their reasoning for him having a hard time going potty was because his parents are now feeding him juice and fruit purees. Um Whatever! Anyhow, my point is that the caregiver said that he is now so ‘spoiled’ that every time he goes potty he wants to be held and his screams are now louder because he has been spoiled. Wo! That is so crazy to me! Do you think it might hurt? Do you think that maybe it has always hurt, and he has always screamed, but maybe they didn’t have the time needed to put 2 and 2 together? Well, we are happy to SPOIL these babies.

Check out our newest You Tube! Z has become even more connected these past 2 days, she is really finding her own little personality. Today she started babbling, something she doesn’t tend to do often (she is a fairly quiet baby with a coo here and a giggle there but that is it), and she was babbling loud enough to get the attention of our entire group. It was so cute, probably even cuter than normal because she is usually so quiet. We all started talking with her in baby talk, and she just kept on going with her dadadadada and some other stuff, and then she would do the ‘s’ sound for quite some time, long enough to start spitting, as if to prepare for another big sentence of dada. It was great! Sorry the video is sideways not sure if I could have changed that before uploading, or afterwards for that matter, but you will get the idea of just how darn cute she is.