Parenthood!

Today was a rest day for the families. Jenni slept 11 hours last night without waking up once!




We had breakfast down at the buffet in the hotel and she ate some banana and watermelon. It was pretty funny as our rep, Kathy, went around and asked everyone if their baby had had a bowel movement. That is when you really know you are a parent. When you are talking about your child's bowel movements at the breakfast table. Jenni was having some issues and we tried everything. We were just about to give her a laxative and another parent that had a baby from the same orphanage said they set their baby over the toilet. So we tried that. Within seconds she peed but no bowel movement. So later in the day after her afternoon bottle we tried again. Now, don't laugh, but I had to actually grunt and then she watched me and grunted and went to the bathroom. I would never had believed it if I wouldn't have been there to see it. She screamed the whole time on the toilet as she was afraid of it but she went. Rich and I had to contain ourselves from laughing as you could tell she was really straining to go. So I guess that is the way its works with her. She is partly potty trained at the age of 9 months. It just cracks me up that we have to grunt and pretend we are pushing and she copies us and actually does it. We also had play time in the baby's room at Dolton Hotel and that was fun to get all of the babies together to play. One of the pictures for this post is Jenni being silly and making a motorboat noise. Her lips pucker so funny when she does that. Jenni also is doing so much better with Rich. Rich had her laughing and giggling and now actually lets him carry her around. Rich is such a good daddy!!

Terri