I'd love to share with everyone the things I have gleaned from a traveling family over the past week or two. It has been a WONDERFUL present to me to be able to hear these things. It's hard knowing you have a baby on the other side of the world who you love so much, but who doesn't know you.
So, until we can meet face-to-face Megersa, I'll live vicariously through those people who are there to hold you and love on you!
Dec 21, 2009 - "Katie, Megersa is a sweetie, and loves to cuddle. Both of my kids held him and he gave us some sweet smiles."
Dec 23, 2009 - "The last 2 days we have been there Megersa has been sleeping all morning so we haven't been able to cuddle much with him. He is not in the same room as Tariku. Megersa is in one of the rooms with the small babies and Tariku is with the middle-sized ones right now."
Dec 28, 2009 - "Megersa was cooing at me at lot yesterday, it's the first time I've seen him awake much."
Dec 28, 2009 - "I got to cuddle with Megersa for awhile today and feed him a bottle. He is such a sweetie! One of the nannies told me that he is a very good baby."
Dec 29, 2009 - "There are about 5 rooms at Wanna and they are roughly grouped according to age. There are 2 rooms with the very tiny babies. The rooms are also very tiny, so there are only about 5 or 6 babies in each room and there is no floor space to put them down because they are too small for that anyway. One of the tiny baby rooms has Megersa in it. There are several other babies who are 4 months or younger.
ME (Dec 29, 2009):
Do you know if they move the babies out of their rooms at any point? It concerns me that Megersa will not be put anywhere but his crib ever.
Rachael and I compared ages/weights, and our guys are only DAYS apart in age, her baby being older and coming into care almost 2 months after Megersa. Is Megersa that much smaller than the others? What does his chart say with respect to age? Maybe they're thinking he's younger than they originally said.
Two more questions about him, if you don't mind:
Do the nannies have any sort of nickname for him?
What size clothes is he wearing now?
Dec 30, 2009 - "Katie, I think they move babies around as they get older since the rooms are grouped mostly by age. Megersa's chart says that he is 3 months. He does seem little and seems younger than Rachael's baby. There are two bouncy seats in each of the little baby rooms so he is put in there sometimes. I haven't heard the nannies call him by any nicknames and they don't speak much English, so I don't think they would understand what I was asking if I tried to ask them. The outfit that he was wearing today was a 0-3 month and it seemed to fit okay. You cannot believe the outfits that they put the baby boys in! One of the little boy babies was wearing a pink sleeper with flowers on it! My husband just laughs and tells the kids they'll have to wait until their parents come to dress properly."
Wonderful information, isn't it? I am so so so SO grateful to Jennifer Anton and her family who is in ET on vacation. She is another adoptive family member part of OAEG and her information is PRICELESS! I only hope to be able to pay her back when we travel.
We also got some sweet sweet videos of Megersa! One is a short clip, about 20 seconds and he's sleeping, but still, you can tell how tiny and beautiful he is, even when asleep.
The other clip is about that same length of time, but the nannies got him to smile! They were repeating his name over and over again and he was smiling at them. ADORABLE! When he turned his head to look at the camera he got this "deer-in-the-headlights-look" which Cale thinks is hilarious. Cale asks to see "Megersa, Megersa" over and over! I think we both have the clip memorized! :)
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