Life at the Orphanage

Life is going very well at the orphanage. I´ve got the hang of the routine around there and know at least a few tricks to stop some of the temper tantrums that go on there. The Tias seem to like having me around and I´m thinking about staying over there one night to help with the night routine and also see what goes on in the morning. I´m not so exhausted when I go home at night now so I think I could handle it.

Fabian is as cute as ever and protests whenever I don´t wear my glasses (he wears glasses too). Pamela has actually warmed up, which I never thought would happen. Last week she punched me in the nose when I was feeding one of the babies. That smarted a little but worse was that I couldn´t do anything about it since I was holding a teeny baby so I had to just ignore it. This week though she´ll play and talk to me, and even give me a good hug when I go for the night.

I started staying longer at night so that I could help put the littlest kids to bed. So after dinner I brush teeth and then put the kids down in the their cribs for the night. Two of the kids actually have to have a sheet tied over the tops of their cribs to stop them from escaping in the middle of the night. And they do escape too! One afternoon when the kids were supposed to be down for their nap, I heard screaming from upstairs and went to see what was going on. Well, Jacqlean had escaped from her crib, gotten into the dresser and thrown all the clothes on the floor, and then crawled into the crib of the other girl who has the sheet over her cirb, and was jumping on her and hitting her! Jacqlean is seriously the cutest little terror you´ve ever seen. If I was her size, I would be scared to death she´s such a little bully.

I´ve spent 3 weeks at the orphanage and have a pretty good idea of what to buy with the money that was raised. The kids could all use a new set of clothes. Especially little things like socks and underwear which there never seem to be enough of. As well, this week when the food came in, the Tias were complaining that there was no rice or potatoes so I think I´ll bring some of that over. The kids all have a lot of toys and I never notice them playing with them so I think I´m gonna stick with essentials. As well, they are perpetually out of plastic diapers there and the cloth ones are a lot of work both for people putting them on and the Tias in charge of washing them every day so I think so of the money will go towards buying disposable diapers in a bunch of different sizes for the house. Additionally they are saving to buy 2 new high chairs so the money left over should really help out with that. I´m planning to get the clothes shopping done early next week so I´ll keep you posted on how the money was spent in the end.

That´s all for now. Ciaou.