While you wait for the Great News....

Today we took a little field trip to Sears Portrait Studio and had our pictures taken. Here are a couple of samples from the session. Enjoy!




The Dad!

The "almost" great news?

Still waiting folks...........sorry. I guess perfection takes time! LOL


It's about Matthew, so still stay tuned! BY the way.........Matthew has now grown PAST his sister. He's taller then Rebecca now. I tell ya, he's going to be tall! He's skinny and tall! Rebecca? Well, she's more shorter and um, solid. :o)

Matthew goes to Children's Hospital this coming Wednesday. Keep us in your prayers. Oh, also an "unspoken" prayer request. Please.....thank you. We appreciate it.


Ki (aka, MOM)

COMING SOON...............GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!

Stay tuned! It's just about here, but just working out logistics! STAY TUNED!


Might have something by this afternoon! :o)



Momma

Happy, Happy, Happy!!!!!

Oh I just love Matthew's doctor at Children's Hospital!!! (Dr. Murthy) He's been in constant contact with us via EMAIL! (It's like someone told me, what doctor do you know who will EMAIL you about your son and keep talking with you!!!!) He's been AWESOME!!!! EVERYTHING IS A GO!!!!!!!! Surgery is a GO!!!!!!! We meet at Children's Hospital on July 18th, 11am. (gotta make sure we are at the metro by 8:30am though........or we will never get a parking space!) We have a "double booking" appointment for Dr. Murthy to go over everything with us. (so far, what we know, Dr. Murthy wants to do some lip revision/nose revision, fistula repair, possible tubes? Not sure about this.....And Urology wants to do, a circumsion, herniated groin fix (putting the intestines back in place), undescended testical fix. Gosh, isn't that enough. Yes, he will be hurting up and down! Motrin will be his FRIEND! Momma will be his nursemate at home, providing everything goes well at the hospital and he can come home with no problems. *fingers crossed*) We will also start pre-op stuff with Matthew.

NOW........we just need to keep Matthew sick free, medicine free, well, you know the routine........from now until we walk into Children's Hospital the day of his surgery. I'll be staying with Matthew during his stay at the hospital. Daddy will be with Rebecca/working.

Right now, we are working with another lady to get an OR appointment. It may not be ASAP........they said the summer months are BOOKED SOLID. So I'm thinking we are looking more like from September to November? Which is fine by me. Things are falling into place now and I tell ya, YOU ARE YOUR CHILD'S OWN ADVOCATE! Someone once told me that and now I fully believe it! That and praying for my son to be helped! I think God had more to do with all of this than me! ;o)

So, as soon as we they can get the OR booked, we will have a date! YEAH! YEAH! :O)

Matthew will no longer have to endure foods/liquids coming out of his nose anymore! HALLELUJAH! As I told the doc, now that he is in daycare, the kids notice him doing regular "cleft kid" type of stuff. Thank you Lord for this taking place now! AWESOME!

Kristen

YEAH! We have movement on Matthew's pending SURGERY!

We finally got an email from one of the Craniofacial doctors and it's the one who has been thee nicest to us from the beginning. (Dr. Murthy) He wants to meet with us and Matthew for a re-evaluation because of the Uroglogical issues that Matthew is having. Surgery could be right around the corner! THANK YOU LORD!!!!!!!!

Please pray that we can get EVERYTHING fixed, including the major thing (besides the herniated groin), the FISTULA! (hole in the roof of his mouth) Right now, he is almost finished with his augmentin for the infection. This makes his 3rd infection since we brought him home in March! *sigh*

I'm hoping we can get Matthew's hearing re-evaluated also........or we may have to wait until October or November. He speaks without saying the beginning of words. Like his favorite person in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD........SPIDERMAN. (comes out idamonmon) Please, oh Please Lord, I'm hoping for some speech help soon. One thing at a time, I know..........I just want our boy to not fall behind. Right now, he IS behind in speaking well.

Keep your eyes, fingers, toes, anything else, CROSSED for us! I make the call today to see Dr. Murthy at Children's. PLEASE allow this surgery to move forward to fix EVERYTHING! AMEN!

Mom

Poor Matthew.......

On Thursday, June 21st, I ended up having to take my boy to the pediatrician because he had been coughing for awhile (almost a week) and the stuff running out of his nose, well, let's just say a beautiful, colorful rainbow of white, yellow,green and RED! Sure enough, we wait for our pediatrician to see Matthew and she looks at his nose and hears his chest and says to me, "Momma? Matthew has a huge severe Sinus Infection." Huh? A 3 year old with a sinus infection? (didn't think they could really get one so young, but I guess wrong) AND, to boot, most of the fluid associated with a sinus infection was draining into his "cleft" ear. (Left ear.) It wasn't infected, yet, but she said there was alot there and she was sure that he could feel the pressure from it. Awwwww...........goodnesss.

Needless to say, the best part of the trip to the pediatrician's office was the spiderman sticker/sugar free lollipop for Matthew, but for mom? It was how Matthew gave our pediatrician a HUGE HUG as soon as she walked into the room we were in. I thought that was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She was so impressed with him. hehehhe.....*s*

So, our little man has his prescription of Augmentin (wow, it's expensive!) and doesn't like the taste (what else is new). He's doing well. OH more of an update????? THE POTTY TRAINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Go Matthew, Go Matthew, in the potty, using the potty........ LOL)

Saturday, he only had to have 2 pullups on! YES! He went potty the rest of the time on his own!!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!! He's grasping the concept!

The kids (and parents) had a MARVELOUS time at Uncle Tom and Auntie Sue's house! The kids got to swim and dump water on each other in a pool they got for them. We did the SHOPPING thing.......it was just a GREAT weekend. Let's just say that Mom and Dad are "thinking" ALOT about the area where we were over the weekend. (looking at homes and such....) You never know................. *huge snicker w/grin*

OH, for you Becca fans? She's just fine. Into everything, getting in trouble, getting her brother in trouble, getting herself in trouble, being spoiled, getting "talked to" by teachers and her own parents.......life's hard at 3! Ha!

Mom

STOP THE PRESS! STOP THE PRESS! YES!

Yes, our Matthew has gone through one night totally and bone DRY! He's trying! He really is! YES! YES! *momma and daddy doing the snoopy dance* He's in his BIG BOY pull ups and knows what potty means and what to do in there. I'm sure there will be some set backs, but he's done it once, he can do it again!!!!! Go Matthew! Go Matthew! Go Matthew!

Wow........he might surpass his big sister at this rate! He has been pointing "down there" when he goes potty, so he is understanding the concept. He doesn't like to be wet either. Kinda funny! What a HUGE difference from China to now! HUGE!

Look out Becca Boo, looks like Matt will pass you up on being totally out of diapers! UH OH! :o) (Mommy and Daddy will be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy!) LOL

Ok, let the regular programming continue.........