(Gracie has been sitting up so strong lately, especially enjoying Grandma's rocking chair! Ana enjoyed her first day of being able to play outside on our patio! It's still too cold for Gracie to enjoy being outside, our little Liberian princess!)Gracie goes to surgery on Friday - I'm nervous mostly about the post-op period as I'm not sure she'll realize that she can avoid certain movement to avoid pain... pray that the surgery to implant the vagal nerve stimulator goes smoothly and recovery is FAST so that she doesn't miss out on too much of her therapies.
As always, at our LONG pre-op appointment today, the girls attracted quite the attention between beautiful Gracie the jokester and (relatively) obedient adorable Ana helping her big sister and walking with her hand on the wheelchair. Gracie got weighed (16kg), sitting up on her own on the scale, then Ana wanted to get weighed (10kg). As Ana got off the scale she turned around and saw letters on the scale, pointed to the S and said, "S?" - the nurse almost fell over and said to me, "she just said "s" - does she know that's an S?!" She sings the alphabet all day long (or she could have just been saying, "this" which is one of her favorite word these days). I told the nurse, "I would not be surprised! I have amazing girls and they never cease to surprise us!"
As always, at our LONG pre-op appointment today, the girls attracted quite the attention between beautiful Gracie the jokester and (relatively) obedient adorable Ana helping her big sister and walking with her hand on the wheelchair. Gracie got weighed (16kg), sitting up on her own on the scale, then Ana wanted to get weighed (10kg). As Ana got off the scale she turned around and saw letters on the scale, pointed to the S and said, "S?" - the nurse almost fell over and said to me, "she just said "s" - does she know that's an S?!" She sings the alphabet all day long (or she could have just been saying, "this" which is one of her favorite word these days). I told the nurse, "I would not be surprised! I have amazing girls and they never cease to surprise us!"
(I do promise to post about our trip to Honduras some more - we were so encouraged to meet missionary families who are living in community with each other and passionate about the Lord! We have a much clearer sense of how we need to prepare for the field in the next year, including searching for the right language school where we need to spend 3 months to 1 year (or more?) to get Josh especially ready to TEACH in a foreign language. We are still awaiting our assignment to a specific area, but are moving forward with learning more about latin America and Spanish.)
Prayers of a little one
Our 15 month old Ana loves to repeat everything, so while I was praying with Ana before bed the other night, our prayer went like this:
"Dear Jesus..." (Mommy)
"Jesus!" (Ana)
"...Thank you..." (Mommy)
"Tank you!" (Ana)
"...for..." (Mommy)
"Five!!!!" (Ana with a huge smile)
"Dear Jesus..." (Mommy)
"Jesus!" (Ana)
"...Thank you..." (Mommy)
"Tank you!" (Ana)
"...for..." (Mommy)
"Five!!!!" (Ana with a huge smile)
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