Babies Babies Babies

I cannot stop thinking about babies.  I just want to hold and play with them.  Whether that be my own or adopting and making them our own.  I think it has a lot to do with holding the children in Haiti and seeing a need there for love.  I think that God is preparing Sean and I for the day that it will happen.  But I do not think that day is today.  I cannot wait to devote all my love and energy into another person and that be healthy (I am talking about Rudy here, my dog).  I cannot wait for the day that I have to be selfless all day long and care for another person that depends on me.  Wow, who would have thought I would be blogging about this.  During the trip in Haiti, God has been preparing my heart and when I was holding the little kids on my hip it felt good.  I felt like, “hey, I could do this”.  I have always wanted to have kids and be a mom, but to actually experience it for a split second felt oh so good.  I know that when you have kids your life goes out the window and they are your life.  Well, I am ready.  I have a loving husband that adores me, loves Rudy, and provides for our family.  To see the way he was smiling caring for the children in Haiti was priceless.  I know he is going to be the perfect dad to our family. 

Haiti our day of unknown

This is the room where Sean and I stayed, in twin beds :).  This was the first night we slept in them because we shared the house with another team and I slept in a room with a bunch of girls.  We got into our room and had to laugh at the twin beds, but it was fun.

Today was an open day, thus the title of unknown.  We were not sure what we would be doing until we got to Haiti.  We still did not know until late the previous evening.  We went to the same children's home   we did earlier this week and helped paint the inside of the their big room.  We stayed there all day and it was a lot of fun.  We did a coat of primer first, then yellow paint.  Some of the team helped paint and others played with the children.  I did a little of both.  

I do not have a lot of the paint pictures, but a lot and I mean a lot of pictures of the children.  Hope you enjoy!

The children loved wearing our sunglasses

Chris with Natalie.  He ended up losing his Mariner hat at the children's home.  It is funny to see it disappear through these pictures.

This little guy saw me do the fish thing with my lips, then he tried.

She Loved doing this pose

Looking before we painted.

There is the hat :)

This was my favorite.  We did a lot of funny faces.

Chris entertaining the kids while we paint.

We had to get innovative.

She was so cute.  I taught her where to find Haiti on the map and she found it again three hours later.  She was so proud of herself.

She is not pointing to Haiti here just to be clear, she was not looking at the globe :).

Gross.

You can see Sean in the back of the tap tap.

Water still from the flooding.  

Thanks for reading!  Hope you all had a great weekend!

-Hayley