Nursery Duty

Well, this afternoon was quite eventful. About once a week, a Haitian pastor comes to GLA, and does a mini church service with the Nannies here. He shows up spontaneously, at any time and on any given day. He's usually here for a little over an hour and during that hour, all the nannies go up on the balcony for the service and we volunteers go down in the nursery to watch all the kids.
Unfortunately, two more of our volunteers left today, leaving only me and Joyce, who's been here for two years teaches all the English classes. So, me and Joyce were in the nursery during what is normally the kids' nap time. Of course, since the nannies weren't there, none of them wanted to sleep, so we were trying to keep them entertained. Joyce was in one room, playing with the kids, and I was in the adjoining room, playing with the kids there. Suddenly, I looked over and there was a beautiful little boy, standing up in his crib with some brown stuff in his mouth. I went over to figure out what it was and noticed that there was poop in his crib and he'd started eating it. So I dug the poop out of his mouth, threw his bedsheet in the laundry and went to the bathroom to get him changed.
While I was in the bathroom, Joyce put one of the girls on her back and was giving her a piggy-back ride. Then that girl decided to pee all over Joyce's back.... and I mean all over it. She'd peed so much, it had soaked right through her diaper. So, after I was finished in the bathroom, Joyce went in to change her little girl and I was back out with the kids. I started singing songs with them and clapping.... they like that a lot and they like to clap and dance while I sing so it's kindof fun and it keeps them entertained so they don't get into so much trouble! haha! Then, I looked across the room and noticed that one girl was lying on top of another screaming girl, with the first girl's mouth at the second girl's neck. I ran over and discovered that the first girl must have tried to bite the other girl, but had bitten her own lip instead. There was blood all over the ground by the time I reached them and they were both screaming and crying. I picked up the first girl and brought her to the nurse, who cleaned her up and gave her something for the pain. She was fine after that. There were no marks on the second girl, thank goodness, and she was smiling again in a couple minutes.
Boy, was I ever glad when those nannies came back from their church service... I don't think they realized how glad I was to see them!
Don't worry, it was a little crazy, but I wasn't too overwhelmed. It's funny how I've just kindof gotten used to things like this. Instead of getting stressed out, I just laugh... and boy, did Joyce and I ever have a good laugh today!