Mommies Day!

While the team was here we had the mommies from our transition graduates and their babies over to the team house for a special day. March 8th is International Women's Day and it is celebrated as the Romanian version of Mother's Day. The Romanian tradition is that after you have a baby you don't leave the house for several months, so for 2 of the moms this was a needed and long awaited day out! The team did a session with the mom's on nutrition for the babies and what foods are good to start feeding at what age. They finished the time by teaching them how to make homemade baby food.

Ruthie is trying out some sweet potatoes!

While the moms were busy, the rest of the team babysat the little ones. Sarah Johnson, one of our team members did a photo shot with the babies. They turned out great!

Ruthie

Rebecca

David

Emanuel

Me with the whole crew!

March Teams

The beginning of March we had a team that came and helped out. As you can see they visited the Boys Transition House, helped at the Baby Hospital, worked in the orphanages, taught a cooking class, and even visited Peles Castle! It was a busy week!

Sarah McCabe, one of our previous staff came for

a visit with her nephew and niece. It is always great to have old family come for a visit!

Our Birthday

This is Fernando. He is a little boy at the newest location that we began full time ministry in the fall. In February, we discovered that we both shared the same birthday, March 3rd. In the weeks preceeding the date, whenever Fernando would see me, he would asked how many days until our birthday. It got down to few enough days that he stopped asking me, but would instead tell me. "6 more days!" So in celebration I took him a big candybar. The rest of the kids wanted one, but I told them it was only for those who shared the exact same birthday as me, because that made it an extra special day. It was fun helping him celebrate and feel special!