Results are in

Here I am, writing you.  Thanking you for coming along beside us.  Lifting us up in prayer.  I can taste joy.  Completely satisfied with life, because He is holding us.   Ann Voskamp wrote: "Sometimes letting go is how to find out He holds."  Firm.  That is how He holding us, and it feels great.   Our hemoglobin levels are UP.   In 4 months, from 79 to 96!  (they would like to see it at 100/110) No meds.  Only diet and prayer.  No talk of IV iron or transfusion.  SO much to be thankful for, so much to celebrate.  Our littlest dude is on his way.  Jesus is a healer, a healer of broken hearts, a healer of messy lives, a healer of sickness.  So let go, and see how He holds!!!

I become a doubter.....

almost always after I have an appointment in the *medical* field.  Levi is not a normal little dude, so he shouldn't have to fit in the norms.  Right?!  He is totally fantastic, and is eating a truck load now.  Don't get me wrong, they are always happy that he is doing well, and that he looks so good, but then they get out their little charts and graphs and *normal* what-cha-ma-have-its, and then well, we fail.  Bummer.   In my head I don't really care, cause I know better and he is the picture of health.  He is eating a stinkin roast beef BY HIMSELF in a week.  That doesn't even include all the rest of the veggies, and egg yolks.   But then the doctors, say things like "if his iron levels stay that low then he is going to have...... blah, blah, blah".   My heart hurts, and I start second guessing if what I am doing is really enough.  See what I mean..... a big ole doubter.  I really don't even have a right to be.  Because...... drum roll.......we did gain just over a pound and we grew an inch.  Good eh?  Actually great in my books.  From 10 months old to 24 months old (that's 14 months if you can't do math in your head like myself)  we grew nothing.  In 4 months we grew!  Awesome is what I say.  But awesome isn't on the *normal* what-cha-ma-have-its chart.  It still says he didn't grow enough, his line didn't move, so if his iron levels (we won't get back until Friday) aren't up, the whole IV iron thing gets put back up for discussion.  Dude.  I don't want that discussion.  So I'm getting back on my knees to the greatest physician, start thanking Him for our growth (cause it really is great) and going to start praying the hemoglobin levels are on the up and up.  If God can change water to wine, then I've got no reason to be a doubter.

Say Cheese

you probably thought I was going to tell you I gave that kid of mine some cheese.  HA!  Nope.  Why say cheese then?!?  Well I know some pretty great peeps.  One lovely family defeats autism everyday with lots of hard work, and oodles of love.  They also have set a family goal of raising 10 thousand dollars every year for Autism Speaks.  They have reached and exceeded that goal 4 times.  See what I mean by great?  This year Exquisite Exposure helped them out by taking pictures all day long.  We signed up, and we were not disappointed, she pretty much rocked the monkey, on one of the hottest days yet.  It was oodles of fun.   I may be a tad bias, but I think we're pretty cute. 

We are dedicating our boys in a lovely service at Rotary Park in Kincardine at 6 p.m on July 29.  From our little family to yours, we would love to have you come and celebrate with us all the amazing things God is doing for us.  We would love to thank you for your all your support and prayers.  I can not begin to tell you how you have held me up during some of my darkest days.  But those days are behind us.  I know we still may have our struggles, but I have never felt more at peace or had so much joy.  FPIES has given me lots to be thankful for.