Follow the Leader- Anna style

Anna is wonderful with coming up with creative games to do with the little ones. She played this game for hours with them and they would follow and do everything she did. She is great with them. On Thursday Anna will be having some major jaw surgery. I will describe it more in detail Wed....but please pray for her. We will be at Johns Hopkins for a few days afterwards and she will be in something like Luke and Mya's leg external fixator for 6 weeks...Pictures to follow.

Mya - My Hero

She can't use her l leg to peddle at all. So they made it so her r leg can peddle. ( She already has a massive leg muscle in her r leg) without slipping. She worked all afternoon with diff. ones of her siblings and finally she got it down....Go Mya !

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Mya- Have Leg Will Travel

This is Mya's full leg brace that she wears all the time. It really does help her to walk and she wears it all the time...except of course this am when she ate breakfast and she parked it :)

They jimmy rigged a piece of tape like a stirrup to hold her foot in place. She can't peddle at all with her l leg so they removed the peddle and she just hangs her leg down . The r leg does all the work. She and her siblings worked all afternoon balancing her. She has wanted to ride a bike for real for a long time and today she did it. I am very proud of her....NOTHING is going to hold this child back. I love the tenacity and courage of these children...they are such an encouragement to me...and they are my heros.

They are back and we are cooking together like we always do :)

Paul just returned from picking up the girls at Jenn and Jeremiah's. They stayed a few more days to help out after the birth of Zoe. Isn't she getting bigger and oh so cute ? This momma is glad to have them all home now. We all usually make dinner together and tonite we did for the first time in over a week...It was nice to have them all home.

They worked together to make this puzzle...Great Job Girls

They started making this puzzle Sat. am and since have made it 3 times. At first they started trying to make it flat :) until they read the directions. Once they got it they can't seem to stop. Now they have pulled other puzzles out. I love how these things just spontaneously happen...and for weeks we will be doing puzzles.

She fell asleep in my arms...

This is how Lila fell asleep this afternoon...She came over to me and climbed up on my shoulder and in minutes she was out. We rocked together for awhile and then I put her on the couch and she slept for an hour more. It is such a peaceful and calming experience for this momma's heart to hold her child while she sleeps peacefully in your arms- content , protected and feeling loved.

I came across these 2 old pics of Luke- Ahhh what a dear.

The top 2 pics were ones I found on an old memory card....My it brought back such dear memories of my little guy....Look at him now. Open heart surgery for VSD repair and aortic valve repair that had prolapsed into the VSD. No palate and bilateral cleft lip, R leg folded like an accoridian ( not in these top pics) and fully attached to middle of his back at birth, L leg webbed and a severe clubfoot, and a spinal myloceal....My he has come along way and he was so cute- still is :) Next month he turns 10....Praise God for meeting each one of our financial , spiritual , emotional and all of his medical needs when we became obedient to His will to adopt him - He came home in Oct. 2004.