Good Morning!!!

(Amy) This lovely morning started with a medicine time for Brenda - not so much fun! Leah is not feeling very well this morning, but she took Cipro and is beginning to feel a smidgen better as of a few seconds ago! She started out with Brenda last night, but after Brenda started crying a lot, Betty wanted to give her to Auntie Norah - so at about midnight, Betty marched into Auntie Norah's room and switched out Brenda for Steven- for Leah to have for baby duty last night! I was pretty sound asleep during all of this, BTW! Moses had falle asleep pretty quickly after feeding him, but that was short-lived, let me asure you! I think he has gotte spoiled...he was doing so wel last wekk. (Well, for me at least - Leah still had major problems with him, so at one point we had to have an Amy train Leah session on baby duty with Baby Moses! But this is common here - when we swap babies, the one usually tells the other what works with that particular baby and what doesn't! It helps SO much! We have to stick together on this "Mommy" thing!)
Anyways, Medicine time with Brenda! Leah has been doing it and doing a great job, but since Leah wasn't feeling well, Mama Amy took over! We had to take Brenda to the clinic yesterday because her ears are still very infected - prayer request, BTW. They are still very infected and don't seem to be getting much better after a week of treatment - so we took her for an injection of stronger medicine. And they let us bring the injections home with us because they have to be given every 12 hours and that would have been a lot of driving into town to the clinic as well as very inconvenient times! So, in addition to the several mouth medicines she is getting, I had to give her this little tube of injection medicine into a IV type thing in her little hand. I went into Anutie Norah's room to get her - and was attacked by a ton of the most precious kids on earth! So, we all tromped into the bedroom to give baby brenda her medicine - a group job is what it became! I had 8 of them in there at one point helping me :)
Catherine was so cute - I would tell her which medicines I needed and she would hand them to me and have this very serious look on her face while doing it. I kept saying we had to help baby Brenda get better. and then with the IV thing, I would say "Don't Touch" ad they would all repeat it about 10 times - and the Ian would continue telling them every time anyone got too close for his comfort :) He is such the little man - always making sure the "babies" are doing what they are supposed to! And he is always saying something about the "babies" - NOT himself, of course! Sometimes when a guest or adult drinks milk, he'll say "You're drinking the babies milk!" or "You're eating the babies' food!" - all said in Luganda of course :) He is so adorable.
Then after finishing with Brenda (oh and I had to come into the other room to give her the IV meds - to many little hends to bump her!), I went and got baby Moses :) He needed a diaper chage and then I took him back out with everyone - Catherine is such the little mom too. and she is learning English very well - can't speak much, except repeating whatever I say :) But she'll come up and give Baby Moses kisses on the forehead! She did it this morning ,and I said, "Say, 'I love you, Baby Moses'" and of course she leaned down and kissed his little head and said "I love you, Baby Moses".
Melt my heart.
When Catherine kisses me, she puts her hands on each sideof my face, and kisses me twice on the left cheek, then twice on the right cheek and then twice on the forehead and then we say "I love you!" - God is so good.
Ok, well, just wanted to write a little and we apologize for the lack of posts - thankfully I've been able to send a few pics, and thank you deanna for posting those! And I told Lan this morning that a picture is worth a thousand words, right???! so, at least we have a few pics up??!! But again, sorry for the lack of posting. I was thinking baout it last night lying in bed, and reaized that whe I was here this summer, I was at Musana for the forst 5 weeks, and then Sonrise for the last 2. Jessie and I blogged dilligently for th first 5 weeks, and then once she left I had no computer at Sonrise - so no bloggig happened. I didn't realize that it practically isn't even possible!!!! With babies 24/7, it is difficult to make time for having our Quiet Times, and even to just sit and chat with each other, much less write - so we apologize! God is working and doing great things in each of our lives. It has been encouraging! Thank you so much for your prayers.
The babies are doing well and are as cute as ever. I love them so much. That doesn't even begin to describe my feelings, but it's hard to put into words, sometimes. They are precious beyond words.
Love from Sonrise to you all and a HUGE THANK YOU!!!! :)