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Vung Tau 2 orphanage photos (Part 2)

The grounds

Staircase

Now unused sinks in the old nursery area

Benches by front gate

Looking from the balcony area down towards front gate/entrance

I believe this is where the Director stays when she is at the orphanage, it is located to the left of the other buildings

These are the buildings located directly across from the front gates:

 

Vung Tau 2 orphanage photos (Part 1)

I realize we have been home for many months now but I had promised a few different families that I would share photos I took of Vung Tau 2 orphanage including some of the improvements and some things that will bring back memories of their time visiting. I have lost most of the emails at this point so hopefully the families still follow my blog and might catch a glimpse of some familiar sights in these photos of Vung Tau 2... Meg's first home.

New front entrance

Main building shown housed sleeping quarters downstairs and classrooms upstairs. Meg's crib (when the orphanage used to care for infants) was upstairs.

 

 

This is where the young babies were bathed before the renovations, according to Loan.

This room used to be a nursery and now is functioning as a classroom for the children 5+ yrs old.

 
Upstairs balcony area leading to where Meg's nursery used to be.

Dedication stone with list of the major contibutors to the recent renovations made on the orphanage.

 
 A solitary crib in the corner of an empty room, that used to hold several cribs for the nursery. All infants are now together in a different orphanage called "Vung Tau 1". This orphanage is now dedicated to children 5 and up.

Keaton and Chloe

I dragged Keaton and Chloe out to the woods behind our house on the weekend, in an attempt to get some Christmas card worthy shots. It was the worst time of day to do it (noon) for lighting purposes but I managed because I had to... there was no way I was going to get them to agree to modeling for me again any time soon.

Here are a few favourites...

 

 

 
 

Meg is 11 months old now. Time is ticking away and I can't for a minute remember what our life was like without her. She continues to blossom and her personality is on full-tilt when she is at home with us. She is a bit shy when she is out and about though. Meg continues to eat everything in sight (dog hair and dust bunny's included) and is loving all the new foods as we introduce them to her. She has tried just about everything now except egg whites, honey and peanut butter. She is sleeping a bit better lately and has given us the treat of a full nights sleep a few nights this past week. Let's hope that continues! Meg still has no teeth but I can see them trying to break the surface and she is crankier than usual so I think that must be the reason. Soon I think she'll be sporting 2 front teeth. I hope it is soon so she won't be suffering with cutting teeth for a bit again.

Here is Miss Meg at 11 months old. She isn't always this serious but on this day, there was no smiles for mommy's camera!

 

Halloween Fun

My Halloween post has been 'on hold' for a few days because our 3rd little trick or treater was not feeling great on Halloween and so I had no photos of her in her sweet costume. She has had her first ear infection and today was the earliest I thought she'd tollerate the costume and momma's camera!

First let me show you Keaton and Chloe. This year I asked them to give our wallet a break and come up with a costume from what we already had at home. Surprisingly they were fine with that and Keaton agreed to be a ghoulish pirate, while Chloe opted to be a 'diva devil'. They had a great time coming up with their costumes and make up ideas.

Keaton - The Pirate (and a scary one at that!)

...and Chloe the Devil... wearing a red tutu no less!

...and better late than never - we got sweet Megs dressed up in her costume and ran outside to snap a few before she froze and before the sun set tonight. I'm not sure but I'd have to say she is the cutest lady bug there ever was!

(Click on the horizontal shots to see a better view, Type pad warps them for some reason)

 ...told you - Cutest lady bug EVER.


 
 
 
 

Where does the time go?

It has been a busy few weeks with hockey, school trips, Halloween, H1N1 line ups and Meg's first ear infection since she's been home.

I knew something was up with Meg when she cried non-stop for almost 2 hours on Halloween day... she never cries for more than a minute and I just could not console her. She seemed a bit better on Sunday and when I got her to her doctors on Monday he confirmed she had an ear infection and she is now on amoxycillin. Both Keaton and Chloe have had bad reactions to this drug before so I'm keeping an eye out but she seems fine. She is supposed to be napping right now but instead is playfully kicking the wall beside her crib and singing a song. She is such a good baby and I really cannot believe sometimes how  blessed we are to have Meg in our lives.

Keaton has hockey ALL THE TIME it seems. We have a big tournament coming up in a couple weeks and I just checked our calendar and it seems EVERY Saturday and Sunday until January are booked with home or away games for his team. Eek!

The kids had a fantastic Halloween and I'll have to post about it (along with some photos) soon.

For now here are a couple of Meg in her perch, eating her cheerios and looking as sweet as ever. Meg is 10 1/2 months old now - that is just crazy to believe!

  

(Meg loves to wave 'hi' to everyone, including my camera)

(This is her new pucker up face she likes to make all the time)

(...still growing into her high chair)