Sunday, June 27, 2010

Una semana muy emocionante!




As you can see from the title of this blog, it has been a VERY exciting week for us. The children that we work with both at Oscar Scarpetta and Chiquitnes are getting stronger every day and the mothers at the birth home are more enthusiastic about performing exercises and receiving massages every week. It's only fitting that we share some of our exciting moments of this past week with you all.

So, last week Anita told you about one of the little guys at Oscar Scarpetta who was sooooo close to taking his first indpendent steps. Well, can you guess what happened this week??? Not only did he take his first indpendent steps, he was able to stand up on his own without using an object or another person to pull himself up!!!!! Exciting Event Numero Uno!!!! Now this little guy walks every where, it's absolutely great! So i'm sure by now you're wondering "What else, what else?" Let's see, something exciting occured with one of the gemellos ( twins) this week as well. During the weeks that we have been at Oscar Scarpetta, we have been working with two twins ( soo adorable ). These twins are able to sit up and transition from supine to prone ( on their back to their stomach) independently. They are also able to crawl on their bellies independently; however, at their age they should be able to perform reciprocal crawling in quadruped ( on hands and knees) and pull to stand independently. When we first began working with them, they would belly crawl using both arms and one leg, while the other leg was kept straight. We would give them constant tactile feedback to bend both knees while belly crawling, in addition we worked on tall kneeling ( kneeling on both knees), strengthening their hip and back extensors and standing. This week, one gemello began to crawl in a full quadruped position!!!! Exciting Event Numero Dos!
Exciting Event Numero Uno!

Exciting Event Numero Dos!

This past week, we made a booklet containing developmental exercises for the caretakers and the volunteer nurse to use with the babies at Chiquitines. The nurse, caretakers and director at Chiquitnes, were extremely pleased with what we made for them. The nurse in particular is considering working our plan of care into her stimulation program. We were also able to meet several new additions to the "Chiquitnes Babies", 3 of which were the babies of women who we worked with at the birth mothers house, and I must say they are MUY PRECIOSO!!!. In addition to all that has happened this week, one of the babies who we worked with was presented to the family that HE ADOPTED on Monday! It is so great to see that he has chosen a wonderful family, but we are going to miss working with him.

This past weekend we visited Parque Nacional del Cafe and learned about Colombia Coffee. We even became the new Juan Valdez. This parque was an amazing experience, just ask the HUGE hairy spider that Anita came in contact with :). And who knew that so much bambo grew here in Colombia because we sure didn't until we went to Bambusario ( Bambo area), now we notice them every where.

Look at all of that Bamboo!

Meet Anita's New Best Friend

MMMMMMMMMMMM!!! Colombian Coffee


Somos amantes de nuestra experiencia aquí en Colombia, pero estamos muy triste que el final está cerca (We are loving our experience here in Colombia, but we are very sad that the end is near). Until then, we are attempting to do as much as we possibly can!

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