Seven Fountains Friday

It's starting to get cooler here in Africa. Usually in the evenings it reaches the low 50s high 40s, but it always warms up to around 80 during the day. The past few days it has been cloudy in the afternoons and getting cooler in the evenings. The night watchmen always are amazed on how lightly we are dressed.

Today I spent the morning sessions in Kara's language group replacing Cat because she had pink eye this morning. We first worked in Haven 2. Layla spent most of her time in my lap during the group, she was very active until the end of the session when she fell asleep. The next session I followed them to Haven 3 where I fed Adam. Adam is not a good eater. He doesn't close his mouth around the spoon when he is being fed and when he is chewing. So alot of what you put in, ends up all down the front of his shirt. A few times I was able to get him to get good lip closure around the spoon, but a majority of the time there was no closure. Eventually Adam was tired of eating so he would just spit it out all over me...awesome. Over all though I did enjoy feeding Adam, it was a challenge to get him to do what I wanted to do, and stay clean. I always enjoy a good challenge. After Adam was done eating, Lincoln, Adam, and I ran around in the tables (working out) eventually I had the idea to put Lincoln and Adam in walkers, and they enjoyed chasing each other and bumping into one another.  Eventually I found a toy that I could push around as well and run into them. After Haven 3 I spent the rest of the morning in Haven 1 working with the little ones with Kara's language group.

During the afternoon I went with Dr. Weaver to Seven Fountains, which is a smaller orphanage outside of Namwinga. Carla, Seth, Hayley, Mel, Alexandria, and I went and assessed 9 babies that they had there. We all hopped in Khaki Jackie and rode through the bush to Seven Fountains. On the way there there were a series of gates that we had to open and close. Jurassic Park references were made. Ms. Mann, the lady in charge there was really nice, and was very helpful. She is a missionary from Canada, and used to live in the Mann house where we are staying. It was fun to break up the routine and do something new for a change, and meet new people. We assessed the babies there, ate some snacks, and then headed home. The babies there were doing pretty well. They have a better Aunties to babies ratio because there are way less babies at Seven Fountains. Most of them were in great shape.

In the evening we had movie night! We watched "Faith Like Potatoes" It is a movie about an Irish South African Farmer and his family. Popcorn was made by the wonderful Ian Tullos, Kara Threm, and Dixie! It was very good popcorn. Afterwards many of  us hung out in the Hamby house until it was time for bed.

Thank you for all your prayers and support! Please pray that the pink eye goes away!

Ben