Happy Monday!!!

After a weekend of fun in Transylvania, we were tired but happy to return to the clinic today.  Especially as we were greeted by the smiling faces of the toddlers and as all the babies were already out in the playroom!!  We were very excited that no one was in isolation today and all the babies were mellow and happy, except for poor little Maria, who seemed to have a rough day.  She had only one good feeding and was sleeping or fussy, which is so unlike her.  Hope she is not sick :(  We missed Andrada, she was at the hospital for evaluations.  We also had Ion and Cristi Daniel ( I think that is his name...roomie is sleeping so can't check in his journal) back from the hospital last week, so the toddlers/mobile group was hopping as usual:)  Here is a little video of how our morning started out:

After a little bit more of that, our darling Daria looked a little like this...

After a pretty quiet morning for us taking care of the babies and after another delicious lunch of vegetable soup and my now new favorite salad the Bulgarian salad, I was off to do some laundry in the good ole sink:) 

We went back to the clinic after lunch and as it was still pretty quiet in the clinic, we had a chance to snap a few pics.  Here is one of them:

Yes, you'll notice Andrea's little nose is blue, it's from the medicine they had to put on her from all the wiping of her nose they've had to do since she's been sick.  And yes, Ion is bald.  He had hair this morning.  We were like, "oh, oh..."  That's because in the clinic, a shaved head could mean only one thing:  lice.  Yep.  Lice.  Poor Mihaela---she had just told us at lunch how she held him and sang to him to fall asleep.  A few of my teammates had held him this morning too.  I played and carried him a few times when he first got back last week as well.  Oh well, I guess we'll see.  One of the aides is going to check me tomorrow.   For a split second, I wondered if we were going to get our head shaved too but was relieved when Mihaela told us that we would get shampoo.  We all felt a little itchy all afternoon but this is part of the gig, too.   He seems to have gotten them on his visit to the hospital.  Poor thing :(  The good thing is, he was still happy Ion and he's handsome with or without hair.

My fellow team members are wonderful.  Two of them are sick, but they are all there, doing all they can to help out as needed.  I think that we make a great team, and they have all been there for me to take a picture, re-position someone, or hand me a cloth for some of our happy spitters when my hands have been full.  I was just telling the two weekers that it's a little sad for us three weekers because we have to say good-bye each week to someone who has become a friend.  I was also talking to one of them about how much we missed the kids just being away for the weekend and how we couldn't imagine how hard it was going to be for us when we the day came for us to say goodbye.  We looked forward to coming back so much even while were were enjoying ourselves in beautiful Romania.  It's going to be heartbreaking.