Christmas Eve at the Orphanage

On the 24th of December, I visited the orphanage to deliver some Christmas gifts I had made them and to dance and celebrate the season! It was so fun to see the kids play with their new toys and get excited over the little gifts! It was also bittersweet that 4 of the boys have been adopted in the last month and were with their new parents to celebrate Christmas.

my presents for the kids under the tree

showing me their gifts once I handed them out



me with all the kiddos

asking for help to open them NOW!

Oluchi finding some sweets

showing me the bouncy ball

Joy finding her candy

Samuel and his gift

Everett's cheese

so cute!

Esther eating her candy and decorated in her stickers

Success with her stickers all over

Kamaru

Kamaru and his stickers

Oluoma

opening the crayons and coloring pages

Prosper covered in stickers



Joy asked for me to snap her many times!

sweet Victor

even Ella got stickers for Christmas

small Joy coloring

Sydney with his lollipop

so excited

small Blessing giving her best half smile

Amarachi eating her sweets

loving the lollipop

Success smiling for the camera while coloring

Baby Ebube

Victor

my sweet boy

Victor driving his car

Martha taking selfies

Oluchi coloring

Samuel loving the bouncy ball

Blessing coloring

Dr. Blessing checking the heartbeat of Mary

Baby Joy dressing her baby doll

the live turkey that the orphanage received as a Christmas gift!

The new lunchroom

eating a snack

such a fancy new building ready just in time for Christmas

coloring the school bus

 

Ife Oluwa Christmas Party

It was a busy month for the IBSF. On the 11th of December, we took gifts out to the Ife Oluwa School in Lekki. We handed out the teacher gifts, but the kids were going to wait until the party the following week to open their presents. On this trip we got to see the garden that the kids started growing since the last time we visited the school. One of the volunteers started this as a science project for the older kids. They have journal to report on the progress of their planted beans or seeds. Such a fun idea for the children to learn the stages of a plant life!

the younger ones were growing their plants in these cups

the teacher gifts (full of everyday essentials like vegetable oil, rice and fabric to make clothes)

some of the older kids saying hello!

the tree planted to provide fruit for the school



the littlest ones eating lunch

On the 18th of December, we went back to Ife Oluwa to see the kids at their Christmas party. We had no idea what was in store for us when arriving. The party was literally going to continue all day with 21 items on the program to be performed! We loved seeing the kids dressed up and showing what they had obviously practiced for many weeks. I will let the pictures do the rest of the talking because it was such an ordeal that I would never had imagined!!

the MC and the little kids with their pretty dresses

this boy dancing his heart out!

singing Christmas carols

 

singing Nursery rhymes

Parent dance contest that went on forever!

acting out the birth of Jesus

Joseph

the sheep

pregnant Mary and Joseph

the wisemen, so cute!

they taped hair to chin, sideburns and eyebrows, so cute

wisemen giving gifts to baby Jesus

The meaning of Children

 

this guy was the cutest in his suit and red bow tie!

Beauty Pageant

Miss Lagos

doing the model walk and blowing kisses to the crowd

it was so cute to see how they had practiced their catwalk moves

the  pageant contestants also had a dance contest!