Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Second half of Day 4: Today after lunch I went back to BCH3 to find Tian Ci asleep. This finally gave me a chance to play with Tian Hui ( The girl with spina bifida and inturned feet.) I learned that in addition to being taught to walk a different way she must also wear leg braces for her whole life because she has no feeling in her legs. We played with a redsox hat which she put on the football and then threw the football making the hat fly off in every direction. My current list of things babies like... 1. Mirrors 2. New toys 3. Baths 4. randomness in hat flying.
When Tian Ci woke up I was as usual completely occupied and I learned Tian Ci's major problem: because of his palate he cant annunciate and his words come out as gibberish. As usual we played mirror games and then went for a stroll through the neighborhood and threw balls at lily. He also further deepened our hypothesis of lefthandedness when he nailed lily in the head, lefty. But at the same time, he uses both hands according to which ever one is convenient. He also tried to do push-ups with me and came pretty close. During our stroll in the neighborhood we pulled leaves off of trees and threw them on the ground with a victorious masculine groan of Arggh! which could loosely be interpreted as a toddler-like scream of Yeaaa! Tian Ci also learned how to say goodbye and towards supper time he could be seen frolicking in the back room with his mates enjoying a nice cup of milk and the entertainment of a 3 piece band consisting of wiffleball, football and cap. To see a picture of Tian Ci and how to help his diction go to http://chinacare.org/fundingproposalMP-046TianCisurgery.pdf
To see other China Care children that are (bbc voice) 3 years old courteously click the "china care homepage" button on the right and once your there click "you can help" and then on the left of that page click "project proposals." If this intensive work on your hands is too much go to your nearest airport and buy a hand massager....Duty Free! You will see many touching stories and pictures.

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