It's Been Awhile...

Since I have done a post or told you about how Andrew is doing;

Yesterday was a very sad day for him, he coughed and coughed and coughed some more, he needed a lot of attention just to stay happy for a few minutes. This is the first bad cold he's had this Winter, which I'm really thankful for! Today he is doing better, and I'm happy!!

Andy is still not walking, or crawling and he doesn't have any teeth. As you can see by the pictures he loves to stand at furniture. He is still slow in taking steps but his balance has come a long way. I am pretty sure that he will walk long before he crawls. He has been working on his front top 2 teeth for the past few weeks, so far they are not through, but I keep thinking this could be the day. :)

Andrew is a very happy boy and quite smart. He knows pat-a-cake, how big is Andy, praise the Lord and please, which he now does all the time, it's cute, but now it's also time to teach him that he can't have everything that he says please for. He is not saying anything, although we are really working on Da, Da and Ma, Ma.

His favorite things to do are stand and watch the Gaithers or his fish, he loves it when you play with him or if he can play in his exracauser, that and drink his milk. He has been eating table food for a couple of weeks now, he is enjoying it, and in answer to our prayers and some wonderful advice constipation is no longer bothering him!!

Andy has really stretched lately, he is now 26 inches tall and weighs 20 pounds. He loves giving kisses and snuggling with Mom.

Some days it seems like Andrew will never grow up, when I see other babies younger than him doing stuff that he is not able to do yet, I would never trade him for anything in the world, but I would also love for him to learn to do more things. But then I think of where God has brought him from and I am once again so thankful just to have him in our family, I don't care how long it's going to take him till he walks or gets teeth and talks, we love him for who he is and we know that God has a special plan for our special little guy!!

I Love You Andrew Joshua!!

Thank You for Your Prayers!!

Andrew is doing fine, the appointment went very well. The specialist did not sound worried and said that all we can do for now is to watch Andy. The lump he has is in between the two veins that pump blood to and from the brain and right now is kind of pushing them apart. But there really is nothing they can or want to do as long as it is not causing any obstruction to the veins. The specialist thinks that the reason that it has grown is because he is a baby and everything in his body is being told to grow. So he will be going in for another MRI when he is a year old and we will see if it has grown more than it should have according to how much he has grown.

They have only found 10 other cases like this in babies, more in adults, the reason for this is most likely because not a lot of babies have MRIs done, but in both babies and adults they do not want to do surgery unless it would for sure be worth it. The most common symptoms of this growth are head aches, dizziness, fainting and in the worst case a stroke, so not until any of these symptoms get really bad do they do anything.

So we really don't know anything more than we did before the appointment other than to watch Andrew closely and to keep praying. we are so thankful that so far it is nothing serious and we can only pray that God's will is going to be done in his life and in ours!

Little Boys...

Little Boys bring so much joy to your heart. Every time that I look into those trusting eyes I am amazed that God would allow us to privilege of taking care of such a beautiful child! To have the opportunity to train and teach him to be a man after God's own heart, to raise him up in a way that pleases our Savior, it makes us want to make the most of every day that we have Andrew in our care. I would not trade a minute of my time with Andrew for anything, he such a precious gift from God.

Things may not always seem to go as we would want them to, but we would not want to be anywhere else other than in God's will, and we know that Andrew is special and it makes us love him all the more!

Once again we are asking you to pray for us as we go into the city on Friday, we are going to meet with a cancer specialist, I do not know what the plan is for Andy, how many tests ect... he will have to go through, we only know that God will not lead where He will not be with us.

We are so thankful that we have a heavenly Father that holds us in His hands and will never let us go, no matter what happens, He is in control!! I have been asked by some how we are handling the MRI results and I can truly say that I am at peace, Josh has been helping me grow through this experience since the morning we headed into the hospital, and honestly not much surprises me anymore! Yes I do think about it from time to time but really as Josh has said over and over, God is in control and worrying about it does not change what He is going to do, it only makes it harder for me to live with it. Thank you God for the wonderful husband that I have!!
I would not be where I am today without you Dear!

And by way of ending this long over due post, Andrew is doing very good, he is a growing boy, I'm thinking he weighs around 12 pounds now, he has really been enjoying the out doors these past few days, helping me in the gardens and so on. :) He smiles a lot.