Angel ❤️

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I’ve never really considered myself a baby person, they always cry when I try to carry them and I am generally disinterested in making any of my own so I usually don’t make an effort when I meet a baby, but everything changed when I met Angie.

When she came to us at the Orphanage I volunteer at she was just a very fragile, super cute baby with eyes so dark and fear filled your heart just broke when you looked at her. The first time I held her in my arms I fell in love with her, we took her to the hospital for a checkup and she had been wailing ever since we stepped into the car and I hadn’t attempted to help because I was convinced I couldn’t. When the caregiver who was holding her had to step away to attend to the doctors she was placed in my arms and she stopped crying almost immediately!!! It felt like magic, I made this feisty tiny human feel safe. She tugged on my fingers and smiled ever so faintly and everyone else in the room disappeared and it was just me and my baby…yes she became my baby.

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Being the youngest child at the home she gets a lot of attention and she can be a little naughty at times but it’s so cute I want to pick her up and give her kisses for smacking another kid with a toy. She doesn’t see herself as tiny and powerless even though all the other children in the home are a lot bigger and stronger, she thinks she can take on any of them and she proceeds to do so whenever they do something she doesn’t like, she will fight back and then take off with her tiny legs laughing all the while.
I’ve watched her grow into an adorable little girl, very intelligent, intuitive and filled with empathy and I’m just so proud of her. She just started trying to speak and her attempts to say my name alway crack me up and fill me with a warm fuzzy feeling I can’t describe…I love her.

Sometimes I come back to the home tired and depressed but all it takes is a smile from my angel to make me smile and feel like there’s still love and hope I’m the world. I’m not allowed to share pictures of children from the home but I really wish I could show off my Angie, she has the biggest brown eyes and only two teeth, with a cute little nose and ears that never listen.

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I would personally adopt her if I could, she made me want a baby, now when I meet a baby I make the effort of smiling and reaching out because you never know how many more angels are out there in the world. Babies are humanities last hope, they are kind and perfect and genuinely innocent.
Hug a baby today…you’ll love it I promise.