Lila & I had been talking about the fact that the babies don't get to go outside (unless it's to the Doctor, Dentist etc.) as there is too much for the nannies to do to find the time, so I asked Amanda if we could take them. Naturally she said yes - we can pretty much do what we want with them (even take them to bed if they are not well & we want to have them close by) because as she said she doesn't believe you can ever spoil these little ones enough. So off we went with Elise as well - each with two babies in a pusher. As you can see both of my girls were enjoying the outing to begin with but by the end of it Julia was not a happy chappy. I was soon to work out why. She wasn't that intersted in her milk, was really cranky, a bit clammy, slept for 3 hours in my room on my stomach (they just don't sleep that long here in the day - too much noise), kept sucking on her fingers & chomping on mine. My powers of deduction told me that my little girl was getting her first tooth! They grow up so fast don't they?
So lucky Julia (more correctly lucky me) spent until about 8.30 tonight with me being cuddled, kissed, fed & anything I could think of to calm her down. There was a lot of bum patting going on let me assure you. I was able to get some teething tablets from one of the nannies which helped a bit & then I reluctantly handed her over to one of the night nannies. I will be of no use to her tomorrow if I get no sleep.
That's if she is still downstairs tomorrow. Because downstairs where the volunteers stay is the cleft home & they want to move the heart babies upstairs & get some more cleft babies from the orphanage. Naturally my three little girls are all heart babies & I may lose them to the 5th floor! Not happy Jan! I did drop my lip a bit & sulk while asking Amanda can't they go up after I leave in 3 weeks? I mean surely she can leave me one of them? Julia???? Pleeeeeease??????
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