Joseph: a starfish 1st

One night at Starfish, while we were eating yummy mexican food, Xiao Liu came in and told Amanda in Chinese that we had a "little friend" at the gate. Amanda rushed out and came back to tell us that a baby had just been abandoned at the gate. We took him to the office took of his layers of clothes and put all the stuff that came with him were put in a bag for his adoptive parents. We gave him a bath and bottle and got him dressed in some other clothes and a new blanket. Then Amanda had to call the police to report that he had been abandoned. Kelly, mom and I hadn't registered with the police yet, so we had to go organize clothes in the closet. :) The police had to take him to the hospital to see what was wrong with him and then the orphanage could choose if they would let Starfish take care of him. We left a couple of days after this and were happy to hear that the following Tuesday, after Amanda called them each day, they let him go back to Starfish. They recently figured out that he is missing a chamber in his heart and he recently had a surgery. 

The volunteers always get to choose the babies' names, so the 29 volunteers that were there chose the name Joseph since we were talking about Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Luckily he was a boy, the teenage boys were insisting on naming him Josephine if he was a girl. :)

 Joseph wearing one of the onesies that I made :)

Joseph in all of his blankets

And a big THANK YOU to the Woodwards, who picked up my camera from Idaho on their way down to Utah. Now I'll have it in time for Girls' Camp in a few weeks!