So Many Babies...

After changing quite a few diapers, I felt like I needed to relive my past experiences with diapers (it's been a while) so that I could sympathize with the kids at the Hospital. What I've found is that diapers can be quite comfortable, but then again, I didn't go through the experience of laying in a soiled diaper for several hours as many of the children we change do. Actually, we just found these adult diapers in one of the apartments so I thought I'd try one on. Who knows, maybe some day it'll be a regular thing for me.


I just wanted to share a few recent experiences with the culture in Romania. So, here there is a belief in the "currant", which basically means Romanians think that a window and a door should never be left open at the same time in a room, or else the draft will make you sick. This especially applies when there are children in the room. An appendage to this belief is the idea that children should never be left on the floor unless there is some type of mattress or blanket. I was with Katie on Monday when we saw what a big deal this is. There was a little boy Marian from the orphanage at the hospital. He's hilarious and full of energy, so we took him out of his crib and let him run around the halls and played with bubbles and balloons with him. We were having a great time and a lot of the other children who were there with there moms came out to play too. At one point, Marian started doing something really funny where he would sit on the ground and scoot across the floor on his butt using his legs to pull himself along. As Katie and I stood there and laughed at how funny it looked, one of the Nurses saw and kinda freaked out. She ran over saying "Marian! Marian! Sus, sus!" (sus means 'up', as in stand up) then she picked him up and made him stand. Katie and I left soon after because we were getting the stink eye from the hospital workers, but we learned an important lesson: never let a Romanian catch you leaving a child on the floor.