Busy Bees

For the past few week I have had extra kids on respites (where you keep other children for a few days to give their foster parents a little break.) We had 2 extra girls plus our three girls for the weekend (3 nights) then for the last 3 nights we had a set of 1 year old twins and their 2 1/2 year old brother, who incidentally doesn't speak. (I find it really interesting how many children in foster care have these same issues, not talking, etc.) The 2 1/2 year old we had over the weekend can talk but generally chooses not to. She can even say the abc's but will say nothing when asked for an answer. The best we can guess is she isn't spoken to very often, even in her current foster care home. Anyway, so the past few days with 6 kids 4 and under was...interesting. You gotta run it like an assembly line really. One person in the bath at a time, then the next, then the next till all 6 babies are clean.