Some Video!

Our internet is fixed, Praise God! Thank You, Lord! So hard to have SO much to share and having no way to share it yet!



Zephaniah ("Wallace") loves our little camera - mostly because he can see on the 3x3" screen whatever he's looking at - but he gets very upset if/when we have to put it away so we've been trying not to get it out too much lately. But here are some short little clips.



From what we have gathered during our first few visits now - Zeph is easily overloaded/tired after only an hour of visiting. Maybe it is just too exciting having a "Papa" to play with, along with Mama but we are not sure if also he is just not used to having two people play with him at once very often. It might be just a lot of stimulation for him to process. The workers in his group seem very sweet and pleased that we are visiting and trying to adopt him. One is particularly sweet and interacts very endearingly with him. After about an hour of showing him toys or playing little games like peek-a-boo and such he starts to become flustered and then we place him in the stroller and just sort of give him a "break" and walk him around. All of our visits so far have been outside in their nice play/walk area where we often see other workers taking other little ones for walks in their prams, including this morning an itty-bitty (young) down-syndrome baby.

We also did not get to mention in the last post how our first day before we even got to meet the children we were invited to sit in on a little play that was going on in a nearby room. We sat right next to the orphanage director who was happily clapping his hands along to the children's songs and dances. Each child was given a little poem to recite, including one little girl we had previously seen on Reece's Rainbow (but her special need is not currently on the list, making her not available for adoption at this time until the list is changed or until she is old enough). It was a darling little presentation that the children obviously had worked hard and had fun at and we were so pleased to see that two children with obvious "special needs" were lovingly included.

I will see if I can post more pictures in a few minutes - so many to post!!