Meeting the Babies

We had a great day. We took Jenna to the train station this morning to meet Leia's birthmom to take her to AIT. She was an hour late, but none of us cared because she showed up. The meeting at AIT went really well and they gave us our appointment for this Friday, YAY!!!!
We went with Holly and Trena, to what we think is their version of Home Depot, and got the needed supplies to repaint the nursery. David spent the afternoon scraping some of the paint off the cement walls. Some of the paint had started to bubble due to all the moisture here. We thought we were going to be treating a mold problem, but looks like it is only moisture. So, David will do an effervescent treatment on it tomorrow; Glad he knows what all that is because I had no clue. Then where he scraped it will need to be puttied. We are hoping to get the treatment and puttying done in the morning, paint one of the walls that did not need puttying, and then finish it Wednesday.
The babies are absolutely precious. They are all so much cuter and prettier in person. Pictures do not do them justice. Mia loves to be held. She had taken a bottle, chilled in the bouncy seat, napped for an hour, and then decided she was not going to be a happy girl until someone snuggled with her. I picked her up and then there was silence. She burrowed into my arm and just looked around. She has lots of hair; it is silky and baby fine, not coarse like Carson's horse hair..lol. Caysen is such a handsome little man and loves for you to converse with him. He has definitely discovered his hands and thinks they are the most amazing toy. He rolled over for us today. I am not sure if this was the first time he did this or if he has done it before, but everyone was cheering him on. Maren loves to sing like her Mama. Beth, I think she is going to be a soprano from the songs she sang to us today. They are such happy songs too. She would just lay anywhere and sing us pretty songs. Owen is another handsome little man in the house. He thinks he rules the roost. He is such a big boy and didn't really understand why I kept moving him away from Mia when she was in the bouncy seat. He thought he needed to remove her pacifier and slyly grab a hold of her hair. She let him know that was unacceptable behavior. So cute. The babies are all so happy together, they coo, laugh, and smile at one another. When they first see each other they just kick their little legs with excitement.
These babies are handled and cared for so delicately. We met Mary Joy and Xio Mei today. These are two amazing women. I did not get to meet the late night shift nanny yet, but I know she must be amazing too. While we were there all of the babies received a manicure, pedicure, and facial. Trena says these babies get the royal treatment everyday. Mary Joy clips their nails, cleans the ears and nose everyday. Jason you would be proud of the cleanliness. Trena and Holly said Mary Joy is a clean freak. She loves her place to be clean, her babies to be clean, and has such pride for her work. She is amazing. She exemplifies such love and joy for these babies. You would think if you didn't know that these are her children. They are so well cared for. They have a system, and girls it is amazing. They may be a ministry that they say is a work in progress with learning experiences, but the love all these women for these pregnant women and babies have blinds anything else that others might critique. Xio Mei had just finished her shift when we got there so she was upstairs spending some mommy time with her little boy Joshua.
Holly and Trena go nonstop. The juggle it all, their ministry, their families, and everything else in life. They go with the flow. Their day may have a plan and then be interrupted; But they just move to whatever the next step is that needs to be dealt with at that moment.