All of the children in the top picture of the last blog are healed and home. In their place we picked up 5 new ones, all of them boys from Sulaimaniya in northern Iraq, who I first met in Amman during the Jordan screening. Its been a long time since we’ve had boys this age running around the house, and so many! From left to right Mohammed (little), Mohammed (big), Ikram, Noor, and Bilal. It’s no secret that i find myself compelled by the 7-year-old boy inside me to do half of what I enjoy, so it’s great to have some boys my own mental age to play with. Finally children who understand that when presented with a doll and a toy car, you don’t put the doll in the car and drive around, you explore all the ways to run over the doll with the car.
We've spent the last week getting them Jerusalem, then to the hospital for all their tests in preparation for surgery. Hopefully we can get them all on the schedule for surgery by months end.
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