Christmas at the Baby House!

Since it has been so nice and warm here lately, Santa thought it would be fun to drop all the toys outside so the babies could enjoy playing outside with their new toys. I don’t think he realized that we would finally get some much needed rain just as the babies came out.

It took a little while for the babies to get the hang of opening presents. They loved it though!

Miah thought it was probably easier to just play with someone else's open gifts than figure out how to get the paper off of his own.

Thanks to all our wonderful friends who donated so that we could buy Christmas presents for our little ones! That is definitely a gift that many children here do not receive.

After opening a few presents outside, and realizing that the sprinkles of rain were not going away and real rain was coming, we moved all the babies back inside to play. 

I love these pictures! We are so blessed to have staff that truly love our babies. They are fully engaged and love playing with them. Even the men, the groundskeeper and night watchmen came to join in the fun.

I brought the Christmas tree into the baby house and it was the first time they had seen one. I wanted to put it in the baby house weeks ago, but a Christmas tree in a room with nine babies???? Nope.

They loved the lights! And don’t you like the big blue converter box that the lights have to plug in to? And, the only electrical outlet in the room is in the fake fireplace. Ahhh, Kenya.  

We had a wonderful time! Thanks to all of our friends of HCO and your great support that makes this possible. Our babies are definitely blessed!