Daniela has a huge personality. She always wants to be the center of attention. If you stop looking at her, she screams and cries. I wonder if maybe she was just starved for attention, and now that she gets it she loves it. When she first came to us, she could not sit up by herself or stand on her legs and bounce. After the first two weeks she was here, she was doing both of these. She is also in a stage of copying our facial expressions and sounds that we make. You can see these in the pictures below. We are pretty close to getting her to say “uh-oh”.
Maria was a little more behind than Daniela when she came to us. She was also sick. She had a very bad cold for the first week and a half. Her cold is gone and she now can sit up by herself for the most part, and entertains herself with the toys she grabs. Maria has more of a “there you are” verses a “here I am” personality. She doesn’t scream or cry like Daniela does when you put her down on the ground or stop looking at her. She is always content. She likes it when you lift and hold her up in the air. My dad is really good at doing this.
Grace Babies’ Home is a two-story building with our house on the second floor and the home for babies is on the first floor. My mom and I have been sleeping downstairs with the babies since they arrived. We get up with them in the night (or hopefully the morning), change them, feed them, and then play with them until their morning nap. Even though I have to do school, I try to help out with them as often as I can during the day.
Before these two babies arrived at GBH, I was feeling kind of depressed. I kept thinking about the fact that I didn’t really have any friends to hang out with and that I was not really doing anything besides school and swimming. My life seemed really uneventful. When Daniela and Maria arrived, I felt I had a job to do and that I was needed. It really feels good to be needed. Whenever I start to think about the friend situation, I realize that I don’t really have time to hang out right now. I have a job to do that God gave me. I think he brought Maria and Daniela at the perfect time.
