Tutova babies

I only get in to see the babies once or twice a day, since the toddlers keep me quite busy, but they are just so darn cute, that I had to post a few photos.

Roxanna - one of the twins with the georgeously long eye-lashes. She and her sister were brought in for malnutrition and might be going home to their parents soon. 

  

Andrea, Roxanna's twin sister.  I can't tell them apart.  They are equally adorable!

Ionute. He has some issues with brain density and can't control his temperature because of his hyper thyroidism.  Mel has made quite a connection with this sweet boy.

Nicoletta has a beautiful smile and is such a sweet baby - smiling all the time.  She was brought to the clinic for malnutrition.  She is around 12 months and isn't sitting up or walking yet.

Andrada is the youngest at the clinic at around 3 months old.  She has a hemangioma on her back and they also think she might have spina bifidia. She was sent to Bucharest yesterday for an evaluation.  She is really alert and responds well to Jody.

Daria is a little jumping bean.  She falls asleep in the jumper, wakes briefly jumps some more and falls back to sleep.  She has a cleft palate and has had two surgeries and with one left to go.  This condition has caused some malnutrition, however she is bouncing back fast!

Christi Daniel will be four next week.  He loves to swing and will latch onto your arm and swing like a koala bear (According to Mel - a native of Sydney).  He has down syndrome and is on the verge of taking his first steps, if you can get him to stop swinging!

Maria Cleaopatra is the clinic's miracle baby.  She has hydrocelphalus and was sent here last summer with the expectation that would pass away within a few months.  But she proved them all wrong and continues to brighen the hearts of all who meet her.  Medically they cannot provide an explaniation.  Her laugh provides a glimpse of her beautiful soul.

*Not pictured are Raul who is in isolation with a rare condition called Epidermolysis bullosa or Butterfly disease.  It causes his skin to shed and gives him painful blisters.  And Paola, who took her first steps last week after working with Dan for 1 1/2 years.  She has autism and some mental disabilities.