God is So Good!

            The last two days have been the best of this month so far. When I say the last two days, I mean Friday and Yesterday. I was going to start out this entry by having a prayer answered Friday but I was to lazy and busy to write it Friday night so I wrote it today. I am also going to write about Saturday because it was another amazing say in itself along with Friday. Here it goes. Now first about Friday and that answered prayer.
            I was having a really hard week with one of my new children at work and it seemed a little hard to communicate to him and his parents. Why you might be asking? The answer is they are from India and they raise their children a little differently then we do here in the states. The parents said that the reason they are starting to bring their little boy to us is because they want him to get some interaction with other children, which I understand completely. It has been hard though because I think this child as been a little spoiled. He is the only child in the family.
           This week was his first "full" week and by full I mean 3 days this week that he was at the daycare. It was getting to me because he was there for the first time for two days in a row and that was just too much. He wouldn't eat for us, he would just keep screaming instead of playing, he would not sleep unless he was in a swing and not his bed, and so on. I kept thinking that there he was developmentally behind somehow but the more he spends time with us the better he is. He is a very smart boy and if he knows his parents will show up at a certain time then he will wait for them.
           He would not eat breakfast or lunch for be at all and I couldn't get my brain to work for the life of me. I mean I have worked with these kinds of children before but my mind was not working until I said a prayer to God Weds. and Thursday night. All I asked for was patience and wisdom and peace so I could at least like this boy like I was suppose to. He might not be my favorite but I knew he could tell that I didn't like him yet so I wanted to hide that feeling I guess you could say. I knew I could I could get a long with a boy like this, I've done it before so that is why I prayed again.
           Friday finally came and the little boy was at daycare. I was ready and full of energy for that day. Nothing was going to bring me down, not even that little boy. I was ready for the challenge of feeding him lunch again and then his afternoon snack and that is when my wisdom started to kick in. For lunch, he had some broccoli and a piece of bread. I sat beside him for a little bit and fed him but then I stopped. I just sat beside him and talked to him and played with him too for a little bit and he finally smiled and played back with him. He would keep waving at me and trying to give me food to eat too. He would also laugh and he has the cutest laugh ever! Then I would walk around and take care of the other children and go back every so often to check on him and play with him a little bit more and he would laugh at me and smile.
            It was like we finally made a connection after all that praying. Well, really 2 nights of praying. It was like I saw something in his eyes when he was smiling and laughing. I felt that connection that I have felt before when God really wants me to connect with a child and I think this little boy might be a child just like that. It made the whole hard week worth it! Then at snack time we were trying to find him yogurt because his parents told us he liked it and he still would't eat it, even after 3 days with us trying to give it to him. An idea came to my mind about giving him little bites of graham crackers because they dissolve easily and it was something different for him to try instead of just yogurt and yogurt bites.
           Graham crackers were the snack for the day anyways for all of the children so I asked for some and we started giving him some. Then the other assistant teacher had the idea of covering his yogurt with little pieces of graham crackers to see if he would eat the yogurt. Guess what? It did work! He seemed like he loved it because he was smiling again after every spoon full. It was a full day of accomplishments with him and I just love days like that. Where there is a tough child but yet you finally get through to them whether with or without parents. You are the caregiver now and they need to know that. Next two goals are: playing on the floor without crying and drinking from his bottle for us. We'll see how long those two things take. Hopefully, one thing a week and then he will be done and can play with the other children.