watermelon smiles

I miss these girls! (and my long hair :( )

Bay Li Tete!

Teaching the women in Haiti to nurse their babies has been a huge battle. A few women really get it and see how it helps their babies while others continue to feed their babies cereal, rice, or whatever else they have. Since Nadia lives with the kids and has a baby, the kids saw her nursing Salinda all the time. They heard all of us saying, "Nadia, bay li tete" to remind her to feed Salinda. We also had a nanny who was breastfeeding her little guy during the day and sometimes had one of the women from our program at the girls' house nursing her baby.
I've told Beth and Sheila that I can't even count the number of times I've said, "bay li tete" to all of our nursing moms. I probably said that more than anything else!! :)
Eventually the kids started telling Nadia or the other moms to "bay li tete" whenever their babies were crying and they even started to "nurse" their own babies. This video shows Yvie and Ashley "nursing" their baby dolls.

LOTS of nannying

I have at least one nanny job everyday...some days two....and other days, like today, I have three. I watched Dylan 8:30am-12:30pm. Drove to the next house and watched Sam and Lila from 1:00pm-3:30pm. Met Debi at Panera for lunch, went home and showered and went to the next house at 6:00pm where I watched Elias and Gabe until 10:15pm. Oh, and three days a week I am also going to school. It's a good thing I have two calendars!
some days it's a bit confusing...

Sheila's blog

I copied this from Sheila's blog this morning. I can't even imagine...
As I went to get Jean Kelley the other day some told me about a woman who went to the roof to get away from the flood that was coming and went into labor having her baby on the roof in the rain. Yesterday, Junior showed me this picture.....

I don't have the right words to finish those thoughts...

Haiti NEEDS your prayers!

http://haitibaby.blogspot.com/2008/09/gonaives-haiti.html

the link above is to a blog of a family that is adopting a little guy from GLA. they are currently in Haiti and posted many photos of the flooding. Please be in prayer for Haiti....people have lost everything and life is going to be even more difficult for them...

More of K and K

Chi Town!

Simeon and I drove down to Chicago Sunday after church to visit Nikki. On Sunday we went to her church's picnic, out for thai food with some other friends, and then to the beach later in the evening. On Monday we ventured out to the Shedd Aquarium which we all loved. Then we walked around Millenium Park for awhile and ended up at Ed Debevic's for dinner. After that it was a long drive home which made getting up this morning pretty difficult!
Today was the first day of classes for GRCC. I'm not exactly thrilled with the idea of being in school again but the two classes I had today seemed to be pretty fun/easy. We'll see if I still feel that way half way through the semester!
Outside the Aquarium
These things were really neat!


I love the dolphins!
Getting ready for the 4D movie....which is actually kinda scary!
Simeon, Nikki, and me
The waitors at Ed Debevic's dancing