by AmeenaBlogArchive | May 7, 2011 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Family, Kenya, Kids
Today we celebrate one wonderful year of having Ameena in our lives. What a full year this last one has been. Being pregnant while living in Africa was interesting. I felt healthy, but had more physical symptoms than with any of my other children. Crazy high...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jul 20, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Kids, Thoughts
Ameena is now [gulp] 10 1/2 weeks old (I think?). She had her 8 week doctor’s appointment last week at 9 weeks. We had the usual developmental checklist. All fine. She’s gained plenty of weight…..getting pretty close to doubling her birth weight,...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Jun 30, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Thoughts
If you’re a facebooker and follow the Karibu Centre posts or see my status updates then you will know that on Monday we got the devastating news that one of our vulnerable pregnant moms had a nonviable baby. She was 40 weeks when she got the diagnosis, a day...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Apr 20, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya
Baby Aurelio (I’m sure I’m spelling it wrong, but you get my gist) and Mama Aurelio, Joyce, have been visiting our home twice a day since last Saturday as the antibiotic for his pneumonia needs to be refrigerated. We are happy to see Joyce and this sweet...
by AmeenaBlogArchive | Mar 18, 2010 | AmeenaProjectBlogArchive, Kenya, Thoughts
As I sit here getting ready to write my absolutely average thoughts….a mosquito buzzes my ear and I wave my hands in the air and jump up like a possessed woman being tasered. Really, is there anything worse than that sound of a mosquito in your ear? Perhaps...