Sena is doing wonderfully. She was terrified when we took her from the orphanage and seemed to handle this intrusion of her little life by sweating profusely (just on her face which indicates stress) and by refusing to let me feed her. It was a STRESSFUL night! She was well behaved and went right to sleep, but my mind was racing. Here lies this little girl who hasn't had a thing to drink in hours, hasn't had a wet diaper in even longer, has a monster fungal infection on her face and another mystery rash on her arms. I literally sat up in bed while she slept for hours. Like, 9 hours!
The next day a new baby showed up. She actually gave into her hunger at about 3am and sucked down 2 bottles. That morning we were greeted by a sweet, smiling little angel. She took her bottle with no issues and then ate eggs and pancakes for breakfast. The little refuser of food had vanished.
We got her visa that morning and then took her to the doctor. We learned that she did in fact have a ringworm on her head. Which we knew, but now we have medicine to treat it. So in about 24 more hours it should be dead and unable to be transmitted. This doesn't do much for me at all, as she insists on sleeping on my face. Literally. The things we do for our kids, right!?
She is truly a lover!! She's so so happy and sweet and attaching so well to me! She even called me "mama" in the midde of the night. She loves to say "give me" in Amharic and has even picked up a few English words. Kids are amazing. She has said, "hi" "bye" "mama" and "baa baa (sheep in a book). She's remarkable smart, inquisitive and happy! I'm so excited to see her in the mix with her sisters.
She is definitely experiencing grief. It seems to manifest at night. She sleeps fine, but is restless. She is also literally cutting 10'teeth. I've never seen anything like it. Her gums are swollen and even bleeding a little. She refuses to let me give her medicine and in the interest of maintaining the status of a safe, non threatening person to her I'm not forcing it. But we had our first meltdown as she was dealing with her itchy, healing ringworm, constipation from this world of food outside of pasta and rice and a monster version of super teething. It was sad and I felt pretty helpless as she tried to use the few little amharic words she has to communicate with me and all I could do was rock her and offer a bottle while she screamed!
But, she is napping now and we are in awe of this little gift from God!! She is a strong, resilient little girl and we are so blessed to be her family!
I can't wait for Lance and the girls to meet this little ray of sunshine! She's a different baby than the one Lance and I met last month!
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