November 14th Photos of Kamilla (New from Kaz)

My friends Erin and Rich, who are in Kazakhstan now, snapped a couple more shots of my sweetie pie. They see her occasionally when they are feeding their son, and a caregiver brings out Kamilla to feed her. THANK YOU Rich and Erin for the new pictures!!

Look at Kamilla with the food hanging from her mouth! And she is still cute. They feed the babies very, very quickly with big tablespoons. Notice her outfit? All the kids wear the same oil cloth type jumpers that tie at the shoulders with a shirt. This is easy-on/easy-off and very durable.

They also DON'T wear diapers --- they wrap and tie blankets around them as diapers. The only time they wear "regular" clothes and use Pampers is when they are visiting with their potential parents -- then it is back into their Baby House-wear.

As one friend pointed out though, the kids never seem to get any sort of diaper rash in the soft blanket type/rag-type diapers -- but in the Pampers they do. A disadvantage to the oil cloth (it is some thicker material not soft/not hard) romber and blanket diaper is that it is really hard to carry, snuggle, play -- with the baby. One time the caregivers were running behind so I said it is fine for me to take Kamilla in that outfit and there was this huge ball of blanket between us (the diaper) and the romper was so rough that it was hard to really snuggle and hold her.

After a half hour I took her back to the caregiver and motioned for the Pampers/traditional baby clothes. They were fine with it as they had caught up with all the feedings and had the time to get her all set. She was so much happier and so was I.

They kind of waddle in those romper outfits because of all the blanket wrapped around them.

More soon!