Monday, October 9, 2006

We ended up being late to Dancu this morning because Shannon didn’t wake up on time. On the walk to the apartment from the tramvite station we saw this mean little devil child who was about 7 kicking this poor little teeny tiny mangy dog who was just crying and yelping. After the kid walked away the poor little thing was just wailing. Dancu was good in that Iuliana was being really good and not stimulating herself most the time and was actually playing with Shannon. Also, Petrica was trying to crawl and sitting up on his own and being pretty responsive and Mihai actually made a few non-gurling sounds. Like vowel + consonant sounds. Before feeding time, the only bad thing about the day was that I was getting kind of bored and feeling very unproductive and we didn’t get soup. It all turned bad though, when it came feeding time. I was in Constica’s room, so Corrina had me feed him. He was doing just fine until I think he got too much at one time and started coughing. That’s not too uncommon, so I just patted his back, but he just wasn’t getting better and started making this gurgling sound and crying harder than I’ve ever seen him cry. I started to get worried and the worker came in and took him in the living room and started patting him. She was nice at first, but when he didn’t get better she got meaner and meaner and started yelling at the poor kid and treating him roughly and eventually just stuck him in a crib and left him there to cry, even though, guaranteed he was only crying in the first place because of the feeding. While she was dealing with him, Shannon informed me that she hated her because of something she’d done while I was feeding Constica. When we left, Shannon told me what it was. She explained how Iuliana had been so good today and toward the end was just feeling really vulnerable and just needed Shannon to be around. Not necessarily playing with her, just touching her somehow. Just there. Well, when Corrina came in for feeding time, Shannon asked which one she should feed and Corrina said Mihai. When Corrina took Iuliana, Iuliana started crying and looked at Shannon like, “I want you to feed me. Don’t let her take me.” Shannon was torn because there was nothing she could do about it, but seeing Iuliana, who’d been so good, getting upset for such a stupid reason made her want to cry. Well, instead of trying to comfort poor Iuliana, Corrina just got more and more mad and was like shoving the food down Iuliana’s throat and manhandling her. At one point, she even held her hand up and was about to slap her but luckily Iuliana immediately stopped crying. Yeah, basically we were pissed and felt really uncomfortable leaving them there with her and it sucks that there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it. After we left, we went straight to the hospital. Shannon and I both went up to the 6th floor and she went with Marta and I with Radu, who are in the same room. Poor Radu is sooo skinny. He throws up all of his food and he looks just as skinny as some malnourished child in Africa. Because of that, he’s really really week. Also, he has rashes all over his body. Sad sad baby. Anyway, basically I changed his diaper and put baby oil all over him and then just got him to fall asleep on my chest. I read a little bit, but it was hard, because I was really uncomfortable because Shannon was on the bed asleep with Marta too. Anyway, after a little while I went in with Madaleina and a new newborn who cries a lot. It was just me and it was really hard because it was really tough to keep both babies happy at the same time. It seems like that was all I did at the hospital. Shannon and I got home from the hospital pretty early and I tried to use the computer as much as I could before taking a shower because I rarely have the opportunity when the rest of the girls are home. At 6 we (Podul included) went to the Hala Festival barbecue, which was, once again really frustrating. There was this really jerk of a guy and then a ton of other guys who kept trying to hit on us. Also, we got stuck waiting for Melissa, Megan and Jessica, who had actually already just left us. Eventually we decided to leave and go to FHE and found them there. For FHE we just cut out shapes for the Halloween party, which wasn’t bad. Then Abbi and I scooped ice cream for all of us, which was fun.