Monday morning... whew... Jane and Jennea were not feeling well after our weekend away and both decided to stay at the hotel and rest up. So our team fell immediately to 4 people (Emily, Kerry, Krista, and me) luckily though we have Lori, our wonderful Romanian high school volunteer who showed up again today even though we were told she was only volunteering for 1 week! YIPEE!! Lori, we love you!
We brought in all the items we picked out at Carrefour in Iasi. We were all excited about the fun stuff we got and hoped the kids would be too. Since I didn't take many pictures on Friday I decided to start out right away taking pictures as soon as we walked in the door. Sami left to go back to the Placement Center but in his place we got a new girl, Elena.
Paula started out the day in her crib (well actually it was Gabi's crib but it is the one Paula prefers when we are in this room).
When we started getting out the toys she wanted to see what we were doing. Here Emily is showing Paula a special vibrating hippo we found just for her. She wasn't very impressed! LOL
Meet Valle (the boy we thought was a girl who came on Friday)! His hand is covered with a sock due to his IV. He has already had cleft lip/palate surgery. He lives at the Child Placement Center (which is what I was calling the Home for Disabled People I am pretty sure).
Krista holding Gabi. Gabi is holding one of the smelly (parfum minge) balls I found at the first gas station we stopped at during our trip to Iasi! LOL
Gabi and the strawberry ball
Mihaela with a pair of the sunglasses we brought back... eating a snack. LOL
Mihi feeding Emily the snack (tastes like Styrofoam in my opinion but Mihi loved them!)
Mihi being a sweet girl and taking care of Gabi.
Ana-Maria's dad came by for a visit. It is just him at home so he doesn't feel he can take care of her. He asked for his picture to be made with her and he wants a copy. We are going to try to get a print for him. He was there for bottle time and he tried to feed Ana but she is a little difficulty to feed so he gave her to Emily! LOL 
Valle spotted Gabi with the ball and took off crawling to get it!
Mihi pouting because she wasn't getting her way (above)..
but we called her on it (below) LOL
Success!! Valle got one of the balls!
Isn't he a cutie!
Mihi ate these snacks like she was starving :-( She ended up eating the entire bag.
Gabi with her new favorite ball. Emily has a ball like this at home and thought that Gabi would like one. Boy was she right! It is filled with glitter and Gabi loves it. We keep having to protect it from the big kids!
Mihi pouting again... LOL
Gabi and Paula.. parallel play LOL
Kerry has been great about hanging out with Maria-Cleopatra (above) and Nadia (below).
They both love her and her crazy stories!
We have another new kiddo. Her name is Elena. She is such a sweetie! At this point in the morning we weren't sure if she was allowed out of her crib but she is!
Mihi back to her sweet self. She was reading the book then Emily told her to read it to Gabi. (We are really trying to reinforce the whole "sister" thing.)
How precious is this?!? I love these girls!!
Lori helping Valle ride the motorcycle that Krista found in Carrefour.
Gabi trying to decide which she likes best, the glitter ball or the Romanian speaking Fisher Price "cd player"... of course the ball won out!
Mihi playing one of her favorite games "sus"
Out of all these new toys Mihi spent forever reading the directions to the cd player!!
Mihi just doesn't get the concept of the motorcycle yet. She won't push herself along. Instead she kind of walks and carries the bike between her legs. LOL
An older girl, Catalina, helping Mihi try on some of the items we bought. Funny thing is we bought all of these warm weather items and now it is in the mid-60s and rainy. So the fabulous canopy/tent we bought for the playground isn't going to go up this week!
Paula loves the cd player.. that was surprising to me!
Elena trying out big Andreea's old chair. :-)
Mihi eating another snack and reading the tag off a toy Piglet Krista found at the gas station.
Catalina and Mihi
Elena -- what a smile!!
Mihi and Emily
Okay most of you know that I am going to miss seeing Bon Jovi in Romania by 1 day!!! Ughh!! Still trying not to think about it.. but we have seen 2 commercials about it already and that is just on the TV in the dining room!! (We haven't even turned on the TV in our hotel room yet.) Anyway while we were in Carrefour (which is the closest thing they have to a Walmart or Target in this part of Romania) I saw these 2 shirts and knew I had to buy them for the twins! One is a VIP press backstage pass.. and the other has a drum set on it.. LOL So in honor of Bon Jovi...
Mihi giving Gabi kisses
Gabi in her VIP access shirt
Mihi with her "rock on" concert face!
Gabi loves my ThirtyOne bag!
Gabi playing with the TV that we brought over for Jane Patton. Jane shipped it to us in TN to bring to Cristi but he went home before we got here. All the kids love it though Jane!!
Mihi and the TV :-) (and the garbage in her hand LOL she loves tags off of clothing or toys)
Gabi styling in her sunglasses... apparently she likes the red ones better than the blue
Goofing off at lunchtime -- This advertisement is on the first floor of the hospital. Emily keeps insisting the girl looks just like Krista! LOL She does!
Em taking self portraits.
Gabi (above) and Mihi (below) still sleeping when we came back from our lunch break.
Raul watching Jane's TV! LOL
We finally broke out the bubbles that traveled with us from TN.
Coca loved them as much as the kids. LOL
Paula doesn't care for the bubbles.. she went into the room across the hall and moved this yellow chair over to this special spot and sat down for a break! :-)
Mihi and Emily
Catalina dancing. (Catalina is here at the hospital without a parent and spent the day hanging out with us. She loves Mihi and plays really well with her.)
Elena slept the entire afternoon.. the change of venue was apparently tiring! :-)
Parenting and nurturing therapy (or care) with supported organization Global Volunteers -- the signs on the doors of the rooms we use.
Just so you know.. this blog took 1 hour and 37 minutes to upload pics and write.. that is why I am behind!! Because now it is bedtime or I will be tired all day tomorrow!! LOL Thanks everyone for reading and praying for us all! Please pray for all the older children who are at the hospital without their parents as well. They seem to be handling it well but it hurts my heart to see them lingering in the hallway watching us from afar! I think Emily and I are going to take in our UNO cards tomorrow and try to teach them how to play. I'll let you know how it goes!
