Growth

For people our age, 5 weeks just means

a couple more grams of fat/muscle,

hair 5mm longer,

and for those slightly older, 500 more strands of grey hair.

For babies, 5 weeks means some are

rolling over,

standing up,

cooing,

teething,

kicking,

giggling,

crawling,

sitting,

scooting,

taking baby steps...

It's been 5 weeks since I've arrived at the Door of Hope, and having the privilege of seeing these babies grow is... Amazing. Especially when I actually realise that a baby is doing something he wasn't doing the day before. Or any day before, for that matter.

It's so exciting! It's so, so exciting! I love it. I'm really enjoying being with the kids, watching them grow and just loving being with them. Maybe it helps that I can now hold 2 kids at once and occasionally handle 3.

On another exciting note, I'm accompanying our volunteer coordinator to bring a couple of kids to the occupational therapist :)

Okay, I'm home in a month. Talking to Mackenzie and Lisa about it, along with people at home, I'm getting increasingly excited about coming home to do certain things, meet a whole lot of amazing people, and eat the awesome food (I promise that I'm heading down to Tembeling Road to eat the ex-Feifei chicken rice the day I return home). Somewhere in me I've just gotta find the will to leave though. I don't wanna leave at all...

Ah, South Africa has become home away from home :)