Selah shared... Day 3 with the girls. URGENT NEED!

Well Selah shared....Sam & Sarah are both sick.  Yesterday both of them were grumpy.  With Sam, sometimes that is par for the course (he has my personality LOL) but Sarah is never grumpy and seldom cries.  Yesterday she was a mess.  Last night it was hard to get Sam to go to bed which is odd since he loves his sleep and usually will walk to his bed and get mad at us if we are not  ready for him to go night night (if he still has some eye drops to do)

This morning they both woke up with their eyes almost glued shut with mucus!  That totally freaked me out!  Thankfully our pediatricians office has Saturday hours and our doctor was there!!  Both of them have junky throats, sinus infections and eye drainage.  They both got three prescriptions.  After two dosages of meds they both are back to normal:) 

I use CVS pharmacy and they've just started a new program.  For every 10 prescriptions, you get back $5 LOL  So far this month, with Selah's regular prescriptions, Sam's 5 eye drop prescriptions, Sam and Sarah's new ones....I'm at 20 prescriptions....it is April 6th LOL  CVS may lose money on us!!!!

Selah on the other hand is doing great, totally back to normal.  I sat with her on the swing for almost 2 hours this afternoon.  My left arm is now useless as she leaned on it the whole time but it was worth it to feel her cuddle into me.  She was so totally relaxed and very content.  At first I thought she'd go to sleep but then she started looking around and was the most alert that I have seen her since last week.  She seemed to look at me anytime I talked to her. 

Sam's speech teacher always stressed to me the importance of "vesicular" movement, swinging movement and how it affects the brain and allows it to learn.  Kids who are blind or visionly challenged CRAVE it!  Sam is addicted to swings, you could swing him 5 hours a day and he'd still want more.  So I felt like the swinging today really seemed to "center" Selah and help her to relax as well as focus. 

 

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So back to my memories of last year.....hope you all like it, I haven't got many comments.  One friend said she was having trouble commenting...maybe something is off with blogspot but I LOVE hearing your comments

 

 

So Day 3 with the girls....   Here is Steve looking out the living room window as we were waiting outside to go to the institution.

 

Here are scenes of our apartment area

 

There were always people going through the garbage

clothes hanging outside

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jon sitting and waiting

 

 

 

First smile:)

 

 

 

 

 

Daddy and Selah

Natasha, Selah's caregiver holding her

 

Selah had to leave

 

 

 

Look at Sarah we thought she was self injuring herself.  Seems that was all scabies. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can you believe this is the same girl???

 

 

Doesn't seem possible does it?  The first picture was taken a year ago today....the bottom picture was taken last Sunday....

 

 

THAT'S LOVE!!!!!

 

I've never shared that top picture of Sarah before...it's rough...but it was real.  And I loved that girl just as much as I love that pretty one in the Easter picture...

 

 

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After we left the orphanage we had a flat (one of many) and I took some pictures on the outskirts of town

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty bleak town...Torez was a booming town until the fall of the USSR.  It was a coal mining town and very prosperous.  I dont' think  too many of the residents are happy with the current conditions.  The town is about 90,000 - 100,000 people about the size of Lakeland for my friends in the area...but that is where the similarities end.  Such a poor town, but I loved it. 

 

Here is our dear George and Sam playing at the apartment.  Jon had his coffee:)  We loved George even before we met him and he was one of the main reasons we had such an enjoyable adoption experience.  We soon felt he was a long lost relative...the wonderful interesting talks we all had together.  What a great friend!  He has facilitated over 100 adoptions and has fans all across the US:)  He handled all our paperwork/court issues with such grace.  We were finished in less than 6 weeks, an adoption of two unrelated girls, at an institution....Selah's case was very complicated but everything went so smooth.  We flew in with about 5 other families, and we were the first ones to go home.  He was amazing!!!

 

 

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URGENT NEED

 

 

http://everlastingmomentum.blogspot.com/ 

 

This is the blog of the family who was just a few weeks from leaving to adopt their little boy and he passed away....  Now they have continued, and have been led to adopt another little boy at the same mental institution as their son.  They are still short about $3000....I have 3000 hits just about every day on here.  If everyone went to their blog and gave $1, we could help them out!  they've suffered a huge heartache on the way to becoming the answer to some little child's prayer.  I can promise you this family will be bringing hope to a hopeless life.  from what I understand, there has only been two adoptions from this mental institution and it is rough...

 

 

Let me tell you what a mental institution or an "internot" is...it is NOT an orphanage.  It is the end of the road.  Children who are considered UN adoptable, like my girls go there at just 4 years of age.  They "age out" of the baby house and instead of going to an orphanage (which is bleak enough) they are sent to a hell hole...there is no other words for it.  At my girls institution, there were children age 4-18 who were mentally and/or physically challenged, boys and girls, then there were the Girls over 18.  The boys are sent to other institutions after they reach 16 or 18 years old.  Many children die in the first year of going to a mental institution.  Torez used to average 5 children dying a month.  Thank God that started changing as Life 2 Orphans came in and provided care givers who helped.  I do not believe Sarah would have lived much longer if we hadn't come and got her, you see the picturs, what do you think?  What you don't see is pictures of her naked, I just could not bring myself to take any of them.  She looked like a skeleton, scary, so tiny....her pelvic area was indescribable...so sunken in. 

 

So you have a chance to help SAVE a child, one who can have a different life, like our girls have.  Please click on their blog and give towards their adoption and pray for them!!!