Wow this month crawled and flew by...crawled in waiting for news and updates from home and flew with life with three little ones. SO many of you have asked about Grace and prayed and are still praying. THANK YOU! Please keep praying, but know many prayers have already been answered. Grace went home from the NICU one week ago. She graduated completely off the feeding tube and is able to breast and bottle feed exclusively now! Her pediatrician also said her muscle tone really looks good and the low tone is not easily detectable. All good news. There is still a lot of waiting and still no conclusive diagnosis without test results back yet. DNA tests take a looooong time, at least weeks feel like years when you are waiting on these kind of things. However, she has definitely made improvements. We got to SKYPE with her recently and now a big issue is...she does not like to sleep in her bed. Yeah for "normal" new baby problems... but do pray she will sleep in her bed soon. Please do keep praying for good news from all the DNA tests and God's healing hand to be upon her. There are still many unknowns about the future (isn't there always but sometimes we forget and feel more in control than we really are).
In other news, here are some highlights of March.
The boys playing with our next door neighbor (11 year old girl) in our backyard. I have been praying for awhile we could befriend her and be more friendly with our neighbors. For several reasons this was challenging but thankful through children we have had a few times together.
Miss Captain America...seriously cute. This girl is such a ham!
They never tire of making Lego creations...usually with a space or rocket theme lately from Austin. He was so proud and wanted a picture.
A sweet, sweet visit from a dear friend...my long time student friend from our days in the south. We met when she was 16 and a college freshman, soon became a dear sister and now eleven years later is engaged to a German guy, a teacher and doing so well. She came through our city and stayed with us for 4 days...I am so so encouraged by her life and it was fun for her to meet my youngest two kids for the first time.
My birthday...the boys got me a globe to go with homeschool. Chris gave me a pressure cooker and an online subscription to my favorite newspaper. Chris and Angie made me key lime pies and I had a night out with my girlfriends to Starbucks. Well celebrated. I am starting to be at the age where I just want to forget how old I am though...ha.
Homeschool with 3..Bennett now goes to Chinese school in the afternoon. Halleluia for only one carpool a day. However, it has been an adjustment trying to homeschool Austin, find homeschool work for Bennett to stay occupied and keep Lucy content without her early morning nap. Let's just say it is more chaos than organization at this point. But if you can't tell, Bennett is doing great with handwriting! His specialty.
And what everyone expects from a March post...snow. Oh wait. Well, the first day of spring brought six inches of beautiful snow, that thankfully has melted quickly. There are piles left in the shadier spots in our neighborhood but it is mostly gone. I am ready to put away the winter coats...but probably won't for another few weeks. Just in case.
It was really beautiful...I think freezing rain came first, which made everything stick to the branches, brought a beautiful blue sky and did chase the pollution away. So I cannot complain.
Snowball.
Our little nut. He predictably was ready to go home ten minutes after going out. (Bennett if you cannot tell).
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