Sue Ann

Every night at 6:45 I go down to the Baby B house.  This is where the babies who are crawlers/beginning walkers live.  I help them get cleaned up after dinner, put them on the little potties, then diaper them, put their pjs on them, and then put them to bed.  I love this time!

I love watching them all on the little potties because they just sit there so content.  I kid you not that never once has one of them tried to get off of it before someone takes them off and almost all of them go to the restroom in it.  And don’t forget they are all about 12-18 months old.  I know…shocking, huh?

So they sit on these little potties and they all look like little men and women for some reason.  This one little boy Alan almost always crosses his legs too when he’s sitting there which makes him look even more like a little man.

Then I lay them down to put their diapers on and those little pj’s with the footsies.  Too cute!  They are all smiles and love it when you put these on them.  They just lay there and smile at you and giggle!

I’ve watched this one little girl, Sue Ann, for the past couple of days.  She is beautiful and so quiet.  It takes a lot to get her to smile.  She just always has this air of contentment about her.

On Friday they were all out in the yard the same time I was out there playing with the toddler/preschoolers.  So I went and picked Sue Ann up and put her in my lap. 

I kept trying to get her to slap my hand like a high five and it took about 20 minutes before she finally warmed up and started playing the slapping game with me.  She even finally cracked a smile at me…oh be still my heart!

Now everytime I walk up to her she puts her hand up like she’s ready to high five me.

I am in love with this little girl! 

I find myself nowadays running down to the Baby B room every spare moment that I get…even if she’s sleeping.  I just want to see her and make sure she’s ok.

I help feed her lunch everyday and then put her down for her nap.  Then usually in the afternoon I go play with her for about 20 minutes.  Everyday I help put her pj’s on and then put her to bed.  Well since baby Richard has been sick I’ve been staying at Helene’s helping with him so I’ve missed putting her to bed pretty much every night this week.

It makes me so sad on the nights that I don’t get to tell her good night.  Now this weekend I’m going to Kampala to visit a friend I made through World Vision.  I’ll be gone Friday night through Sunday evening.  That means there’s a potential to not see her at all for 2 whole days.  Oh man that hurts.

The other night I went to bed and was thinking about how many days I have left here to see her, hug her, make her smile, feed her, say goodnight to her, and just love on her.  I started crying at thinking how the days with little Sue Ann are slipping away from me. 

I have 5 days left with her.  I’m trying not to think too hard about it because it makes me cry.  Leaving her will be so hard.