Saturday, November 15, 2008

What's Next


Glow worm had lost her glow, and Pat had to perform a little surgery to fix her up! Lulu loves glow worm, and was delighted to see daddy had brought her glow back. The glow of the worm and the flash of the camera don't mix too well for a nice picture. Too bad, it was such a cute one...

Well, as many of you know, Lulu will need surgery soon, and we are running into some scheduling hang ups. Of course there's no ICU hospital beds available until around New Year's. Then, of course, the Doctor's on vacation during New Year's. So we are still waiting to see when she can actually be scheduled. We are hoping to hear something on Monday. She has a whole series of specialist appointments in Dec., which is the soonest they have available for that. This causes a little concern because I thought for sure the major part of this would be done before I have to return to work in early January. So we are having to rethink how that's going to work out.

So, needless to say, it's in God's hands now, and we'll just have to roll with it as it comes. We would appreciate your prayers in all this. When the surgery does come, it will be a very complicated one, and we will not know how she may be affected until she wakes up and begins her recovery. They will be opening up the spine and exposing it, along with nerves controlling any number of areas of her body, so you can imagine the risk. It is up to Him, also. Much love to everyone, for the support you've given us. Those of you who've met our little Lulu know just how precious she is...we pray that she will remain the amazing girl God has made her after surgery.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Chinese Pizza?





This was an interesting dish they were selling at the market vendors when we were in Henan. I really wanted to try it, but the intestinal parasite possibilities over road by desire. I'm sure Chad would've ate it anyway, but I have reservations!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Lu Lu meets her cousins





This weekend we went to Tacoma to have an early Thanksgiving dinner with Pat's family, since they will be out of town later. We took advantage of our time and the gas and toll fees and also stopped by to visit my brother, his beautiful girl, and his daughter, who is the same age as Lulu. Avah is quite a bit taller than her, by like a whole head! She was enamored with Lulu, which is weird because Avah has no interest in other children, but she was immediately fascinated by Lulu and kept touching and talking to her and my brother Matt and I were really glad to see them love each other already!

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed bunch is of course Pat's brother's kids! Their little boy actually had longer hair than Lu Lu does. Oh well, it grows back soon enough.