Long and probably boring update on CONIN... Sorry

I know I've been so bad about posting more about CONIN lately, but we've been so busy in CONIN that when we get home we're just worn out. I promise that sometime the next week I'll get more pictures and stories of the kids, but for now here's a little taster. Everything is finally settling into a schedule. Every Tuesday and Thursday the parents of the kids can come in and visit, so there really isn't much time to work with them those days. We worked it out so we'll be working Mon Tues Wed Fri and Sat as much as we can. We were able to bring the three heavy boxes full of stuff for the kids and the tias (workers) had so much fun looking at it. It was like Christmas to them. We bought a bookshelf with the money that was donated to put everything in. We marked everything with CONIN and put a lock on the bookshelf so nothing will be stolen. Today was the first day we were able to start really working with the kids and Sra. Gloria (the director) was really excited. We took about three kids each time to a large room so they could get away from their dormitory. We started with the babies in the morning and did tummy time with the ones that were old enough for it. Most of them didn't appreciate it, but they'll learn to like it eventually. We then took the next oldest group and mostly just played dress us with them. In the afternoon we took the third room and did coloring time with them. We just got out crayons and paper. Some of them loved it and some don't quite have the hang of it, but they still loved getting out and doing something. With the oldest room we tried to find an activity that was at each childs level. Some we did puzzles with, some played with blocks (or destroyed the towers we made for them), and some did matching games. Today as we worked with the children we tried to just assess what level they were at and set goals for them. In a future post I'll let you know more about the goals. Sorry this post is all text and really long, just one more thing. Success story for the day. Felix is a child that was just moved to the oldest room. He is a little slow mentally, but I'm not sure completely what's wrong. He normally doesn't do anything but cry. He doesn't focus his eyes on anything, have any facial expressions, or really react to others. Today we did blocks with him and he actually focused on the blocks as we built towers in front of him. When prompted he would start adding blocks to the tower. When congratulated for doing so he even gave a small half smile. He also did really well focusing in the morning when we had him the first time today. We thing the tias were shocked with how well he did. Well, that's all I have. Sorry it's so long and boring, and sorry if it doesn't make any sense, but I'm not going to go back and read it because I've already spent enough time on a boring post with no pictures. I'll try to find time for some exciting pictures!!!