9.28.06 Update
Today, I would like to share what we know about Mary's daily routine at the orphanage. Because there are a lot of children and very few caregivers, it is expected that she adhere to a very structured schedule. Many orphanages even have the children trained to respond to whistles and horns to indicate meal, potty and play times. We don't know what methods are used at the Yiangjiang Social Institute.
Here's what we do know...
Mary's sleep schedule:
She gets up at 7am (all of China is in a single time zone per The Great Leader, so it might be light or dark at that time. I don't know). She naps from 12pm to 2:30pm and goes to bed at 8pm. She will nap 2-3 other times during the day. It is reported that she is a deep sleeper.
Inbound:
She eats breakfast at 7:30am; mostly milk.
She has lunch at 11:30am and eats dinner at 5:30pm. She has a 3pm snack of fruit and cakes and gets a bottle of milk at midnight.
As for foods, she is served porridge, powdered meats (apparently her favorite, which is gross and will be changed to lobster rolls, dropped eggs, whoopie pies or Buffalo Wings), pureed fruits, vegetables and fish as well as bone soup.
Outbound:
Mary urinates 6-8 times a day and according to the report knocks out 102 bowel movements every 24 hours. I hope that's a typo, or we're going to need a bigger house! I assume they mean 1-2 a day.
That's it for now.
Tomorrow: Her favorite activities and toys, as well as a note on the crazy paperwork Leigh and I have been working on this week.
posted by Michael Fresina @ 5:24 AM
1 Comments:
Too funny. I didn't even notice the 'bone soup' connection. Nicely spotted, Ally.
Now for the important part: Dropped eggs are my favoirte comfort food. I probably had them at least twice a week, every week, growing up and once a week now - hello Lipitor!
A traditional dropped egg is actually a 'dropped egg on toast.' It's a still-runny-in-the-center poached egg served on on a piece of toast. A variation is to toast the bread, cut a hole in its center and then fry the egg in the hole in a frying pan, using the removed piece to soak up the yolk.
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