The Baobab Home

Babies on the Bed!

Here are our Wee Ones!
Laura Baraka is standing with confidence and just about to walk. She does the (seated)happy eating dance before every meal and likes to crawl without benefit of her knees. She is a little peach. Mohammed seems to have a blossoming comedic personality. His first words are all the names of his siblings and he chants them all day long. Certainly a ‘people person’. We hope to reunify Mohammed before the end of the year. Hadija is still our resident princess, but sweet Faidha had made a good impression and her and has softened the edges of Hadija’s ‘terrible twos’. Our hopes of reunifying Hadija with her father go up and down. He recently suffered kidney failure so it looks like she will unable to return home for quite awhile. Faidha, who is 5, but looks two, loves her Baobab life. She’s gained 4 or 5 kilos since arriving and has started to talk. She just got corrective inserts for her flat feet. We will soon get her to the dentist for some much needed work. When Faidha is happy, it looks like she holds within her all the happiness of the world. And when she’s sad, it is just heartbreaking.

Thanks to volunteer Ali for getting all the kids on track with potty training!