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Please check out the beautiful waiting children on Until All Have Homes. There is also a UAHH blog that you can visit, the links are below. The twins listedon the Haiti page really need a family soon. Please consider opening your hearts and homes to these children in need.

http://www.untilallhavehomes.org/haiti.html

http://victoriashope.blogspot.com/

Busy, Busy, Busy!!

I just love this picture of Isaac. This is just so "him", laid back and relaxing in the swing, loving life and thinking everything is silly. :) I miss you beautiful boy and I hope to see you again soon.

Things around the homestead have been crazy. We are working hard at getting home schooling done in April and May so that we have the whole summer to have fun. In April is also spring break week and a week where the kids have standardized testing, so that cuts out two weeks of the FEW that are left. We have a required number of hours to complete and we are getting close. Summer will serve as a great time to do more hands on experential learning. :) I can't believe the school year is winding up already. The past two days we have done nothing but math. My children tend to get worried about testing so the better I can prepare them and boost their confidence the better off that they feel about the tests.

We (my sisters and Mom) are talking about a major cross country trip this summer with the kids. So we may end up being gone most of the summer once again. The list of "places to go" is growing by the day. My sister Nina and her two children would do the Eastern route with us, and then my Mom and/or sister Tisa would be doing the Western route back. (We would spend some time in Ohio visiting family, friends, and Angeline's Doctors would LOVE to see her again I am sure!) But of course there are many things that need to fall into place before we can commit to this trip. Namely the OK from Angeline's docs here to be gone for 6-8 weeks or so. (The time in Ohio wouldn't really be an issue, it would mainly be the traveling too and from that we would want to be sure that she doesn't get sick! Plus we are planning on lots of camping and outdoor time!) The places that we are thinking of visiting are Mt. Rushmore, Old Faithful, Crazy Horse, the Lewis and Clark Trail, American Girl in Chicago (of course), Indoor water parks of Wisconsin Dells (several on the list), and every minor road side attraction is always a hit, even if its just for laughs. The west bound route we will likely drive through the mid US and head into L.A. then back up the coast to WA state. Big dreams, big plans... I do realize! If anyone else has other suggestions of great places to see along those routes, please do let me know.

I am still working on the slide show from my trip to Haiti. It is really long and I don't know if I will be able to get the OK to share it or not. I should be done with it in the next couple days and find out if I can share it next week I would think. Sorry! There have been problems in the past with pictures of the children but its definitely something that would interest all the adoptive parents at COTP so hopefully I will be able to share it with those who would enjoy it the most.

Side thought: How do I put the "blogs that I read" on my main blog page? I see everyone else with this feature and I am not sure how to do it. If anyone knows, please email me and tell me:

sisters3designs@aol.com

Guess what? My husband comes home tomorrow! And next week as of right now looks like it might be the last full week out of town for awhile. Phew! I am trying to plan some special things for this weekend for us all. :) It has been a long week.

Tomorrow we are off to have Angeline's casts changed. I am really hoping that she doesn't get too upset this time. The last time was so traumatic for her. (The "sawing off" part especially.) Its been WEEKS and WEEKS since she has had her legs washed and ALL of her toe nails cut so I am hoping to have about 20 mins tomorrow to get those things taken care of before the last set of boots go on. Angeline will also get fitted for her leg braces. :) We can't wait to start aquatic therapy!

No more news or thoughts on moving right now. Just praying, waiting, and watching. :)

Something really wonderful happened this week. Friends of ours are planning to adopt from Haiti and may even be adopting from COTP! They had not given much thought to adoption but then after getting to know Angeline and our other children the Lord softened their hearts for Haiti!!! I am so excited for their family as they embark on their very own adoption journey. Many blessings!
Sarah

Wow!!

This picture is from the airplane after we left Haiti. This would be the cruise ship in the Port of Labadie.

This is really a fantastic video:

http://www.vegasamjam.com/teamamjam_afotheringham_vid1.asp

It took a little bit to load on my slow computer. So be patient. It's well worth the wait.

Dream big!

Blessings,
Sarah

The Weekend Update

This picture is from earlier this month of Danny's 18th birthday and Dominick's 8th birthday. It was a cheesecake birthday, not a CAKE birthday and here are the boys blowing out the candles... and Leishan making a fool of herself in the background. :)

I have some weekend updates but first I wanted to clear something up. Angeline is "legally" ours. We can re-adopt her here in the US. However, that won't give her citizenship. There are two ways for her to become a US citizen from here:

a. We can wait until she has been with us for two years, that way she doesn't need to go back to Haiti. So we are talking May 2008. Then we file the paperwork to classify her as an Immediate Relative Immigrant. There are many forms that we fill out, many payments that we send it, and since she is our legal child, it should all go through without a hitch. We would do her re-adopt her before that time.

b. The other option is to file out I-600 here in our state. Then we they do the rigmarole just like a regular international adoption as if she were back in Haiti. Then we take her back to Haiti and we go to the embassy for the interview and medical etc. and she needs a new Haitian passport with her new legal name on it, and then we get her IR-3 or 4 visa and once we hit US soil she is a citizen. (I think that there are things that we need to file in order for her to get a US passport, social security number etc.)

So those are our two options. Given that she is still under fairly intense medical treatment with her legs and has some more big bladder/kidney testing in May, this is not a good time to take her back to Haiti. She legally has to be here! We can't just keep her here without a Visa because she is "ours". So we will continue to renew the medical Visa for as long as she validly needs it and if there is a time that she can safely go back to Haiti, we will do her citizenship that way. If not, we will wait the two years. I know HUGE BUMMER. BIG HUGE RIDICULOUS PITA BUMMER! But that's the way that it is. So... we take it one day at a time. I do need to find out about the re-adopt here in WA state if anyone has any free advice for me. :) We intend to do it on our own without an attorney if possible. So now, there is your answer, a medical Visa is not a quick way to get an adoption done. It just makes this more complicated and more expensive. But was life saving so it was so WORTH all the trouble of course. :) :) :)

OK back to the weekend update:

My husband just left a short while ago and is on his way back out of town. I miss him already. It was a beautiful and sunny day here today and love was in the air. I am glad that I like my husband so much these days. lol

On Friday night we went to dinner and spent a bit of time second hand smoking at the casino. (Stinky ewww!) And happened to sit right next to a guy who was losing a lot of money. While Robert and I were spending our $10 on the penny slots at 20 cents a spin, the guy to the left of Robert was spending $2.00 a spin. So about 20 mins and $400 later, he was "hitting" his machine. Bless my husband who thinks he is much bigger and tougher than he really is... and since the guy who was ANGRY GAMBLER next to him was ticked because he wanted the BONUS ROUND (three pyramid's and you get 15 free spins and a loud buzzer sounds etc.). Angry Gambler didn't get ANY bonus rounds in $400 worth of spins. And my husband kept getting it over and over and over on his $10.00 worth of spins. You can press the button really fast when you know you got the BONUS ROUND to avoid hearing the big buzzer, especially smart when a BIG Angry Gambler is next to you. But no, not my husband, he was going to let it BUZZ. Let it BUZZ and stand up out of his chair and put his arms up, drawing a crowd for his bonus round (Of $3.45 winnings), rubbing it in a bit harder... all because I was turning the brightest shade of RED. So that encouraged him even more to make a bigger deal... "BUZZZZZZZ" ... there he goes getting it again... now the angry gambler is two fist ed pounding on the buttons on his machine, another $100 down without a bonus round... by now I am crying because I am trying so hard not to laugh. It's so mean, and I am sure this man has some issues, but seeing my husband act that way without any fear of repercussion was just intensely funny. (Oh good memories, I guess you had to be there!)

My kids are happily eating corn on the cob and fish sticks from the freezer from heaven only knows how long ago. I need to go grocery shopping BIG time. It was something we typically spend one weekend day doing the shopping and getting organized for the week. Well we just didn't this weekend. Robert took the kids bowling and we had pizza for dinner yesterday and today we watched movies, the kids played outside, the girls had horseback riding and french class and we just had more family time. So tomorrow I need to get on the grocery shopping. The kids are watching Star Wars. The entire epic thrillogy is on demand right now. They are all practicing their chewbakka grunting, oh so charming!

I wanted to share a bit of a funny yet inappropriate story. So if you don't like inappropriate stop reading now. :)

When Robert and I first got together I was living in Kent, Ohio. I was finishing up my college at Kent State University. (Yes the Kent State Massacre occured there, that's the Kent I am talking about.) Well at Kent, the town, there is a man, affectionately referred to as F-U Bob. Not the literal words for the F and the U, but actually called just the letter F and the letter U-Bob. So F-U Bob.

F-U Bob had some mental health issues. I don't know why hippie's like college towns... maybe Kent state has a bit more notoriety for hippies than most, but F-U Bob was a crazy old hippie leftover from the 60's who walked around town all day, everyday, and flicked people off and said... F-U. (Not the F and U the letters but the actual words... trying to keep it clean here.)

Well F-U Bob was famous. He was a daily topic of conversation and people would honk and wave, "hey, how are you F-U Bob?", and he would say with a flick of his most fragile finger: "F-U"... shaking his head and looking at the ground. talking to himself. He had a lot of pent up anger. We would discuss what F-U Bob was wearing and where about he was each morning when our professors would arrive to class. Sometimes if one were to stop for gas or a coffee they would get an up close and personal flick of the finger and disgruntled F-U. Literally this guy was like a town mascot.

Well today at my house... we had an F-U Sophie. Sophie was outside today letting her most fragile finger fly. She ran inside before anyone could tattle on her, and tattled on herself with a big fat lie... "I swear MOM, I was just pointing at something and they thought that I was giving them the finger." (THE FINGER.)

"Really Sophie... just pointing, like this?" (I pointed my pointer finger giving my example.)

"Yes Mom and now they are all going to come inside and tell on me and get me into trouble!"

Uh-oh. Problem is that our older children remember F-U Bob. And we never have really had a problem with any finger flickers in the past. (Think of all those middle fingers kept in the appropriate places all these years, that's pretty impressive.) So now she has been coined F-U Sophie. I guess she made her own bed. She doesn't find this funny albeit her eldest sister and brother find it immensely funny. I think that they managed to nip the finger flicker in the bud. Sibling peer pressure sometimes serves as the best form of punishment. I am hoping the nickname doesn't make it past tomorrow morning.

Have a great week. Thanks for letting me share this proud parenting moment. :)

HuGs

Sarah

Updates all around...

My hubby's home!
Robert has been working out of town during the past couple weeks. Last night he came home so I can finally sit down and get my thoughts together. Its been wild week. Big decisions never can get made in a hurry when we are many miles apart without reliable cell phone service all the time. But he is home now and I am most thankful. (Just for the weekend, then we have a couple more weeks of this before they start a new closer job where he won't have to be away.) I have missed him so much and I can't say enough how happy I am that he is here!

OK the Sonic... well I was all ready to put my initials on the counter, counter, counter offer. :) And I had a moment of panic and thought that I had better call our lender and see what they thought about giving a conventional loan for the sonic. They called six banks and got big no's from them all. It is technically a home, but not really, so no one really knows what to do. We have had Mindy our realtor and Michelle her sister (a loan person) working on getting things together with the current bank. I talked to them yesterday and they don't see a problem with financing it again. Since they hold the current financing. So the only panic's left are the insurance, which we will hopefully know more about that on Monday, and of course then there is the issue if we ever want to sell it. Will we be able to do so? We had thought that with the work we are going to put into it and with the area that it is in, we wouldn't have an issue. But we didn't think about there being any issues with financing and insurance and that sort of thing... so now we are wondering how long will we actually be there?Realistically how much work will we do? Can we really put lots of money into this place and will we really get our return on it? Those are things that we are praying about. AS of right now we are in a bit of a holding pattern. Maybe there will be more clarity once we hear from the insurance people on Monday. Perhaps we will just wait? Neither of us really has any kind of answer either way.

Angeline... miss purple boots goes to get her casts off this Friday and she will get fitted for her leg braces. Then in a couple weeks we will go back and she will be officially cast free and able to wear her leg braces. I can't even say enough about how resilient she has been. Thank you God for that! I am hoping and praying that they will be able to get the braces done really fast and maybe in time for spring break because I would really like to be able to take the kids swimming, and her too during that week. Maybe even to the hot springs... but that is two weeks away, so I don't know if they will be able to do it or not.
Angeline has been really getting into a toddler stage. While I was in Haiti she learned how to say NO, which sounds more like DOE, and is very cute right now. She even practiced telling DOE to the speech therapist many times when she was here this week. (She gets the speech therapy to help with her swallowing, I honestly don't think we will need it much longer because she is doing great with eating despite STILL not having any teeth!)
Angeline's current favorite song is I'M a Little Teacup. :)

Well I am off for super clean day and then I have to start tackling the paperwork. It's time already to re-do Angeline's medical Visa extension. This is a bit of a bummer that we have to do keep extending it but the choice is to do so until she has been with me for two years or to go back to Haiti in order to get her citizenship done. The USCIS right now given how much medical treatment she is still getting, advises just to wait and see... but that it really would be risky to take her back to Haiti right now. We are thinking that maybe once Isaac is ready to come home we could take her then to Haiti and get them both done at the same time at the US Embassy. Time will tell what the right thing to do it.

I don't have any news on all the children and babies that were going to the traveling doctors this week. Please pray that most of them were able to get the care that they need. If not we will start working on MV's for the most critical. I will update once I hear anything. There is one baby named Christela that has Spina Bifida that could really use some extra prayers if you have a moment. I am hoping that she was able to get her surgeries and that she is enjoying some time with her Mom pain free right now.

Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Sarah

Little Temple Update

So they made a counter offer. The price still seems a bit more than what we are willing to spend.We set a "top dollar" in our minds and we think we will make a counter offer to the one that they made. Well they also added some strange stipulations since we made a contingent offer, things like how much we have to list our house at, and how much we need to lower the price every two weeks, and that they want comps to prove our listing price by our realtor, and they just are having some control issues I think! That makes me a bit disheartened. They know that we have 13 children and will be LIVING there while we renovate/improve. They don't live there, they bought it as an investment property then they did nothing with it, they have had it on the market this time since November with only one offer that got withdrawn (and had it on the market before this time without any offers!)... so who has more at stake here? I am not saying that they have nothing at stake. Surely they want to get out of this deal that they made, but Momma made no fool! And I know that for us, it was a lucky find, and not imperative that we move right now.

So... either we will make a counter offer today/tomorrow, or just sit on things. We are in prayer mode right now. We are also waiting to find out if they are putting on a new roof because if they are we can adjust our budget accordingly.

If its meant to be it will happen, and if not, our house sure is looking nice with all the painting and work we have been doing! (Not to mention after the time in Haiti, I am counting my blessings that I do have a house already! Not to mention a nice decent sized one!)

Thanks for the well wishes and prayers.

I will update soon!

Sarah

Isaac Update ALREADY!!

Guess what?

Isaac is finally in IBESR!!! Please pray that his stay there is short :) And that he can move right through the rest of the adoption process with ease. Pray that there are no more hang ups and hold ups and that children from COTP and all of Haiti can start moving rapidly to their adoptive families. :)

I miss my son SO much but one thing I learned while I was in Haiti was to trust more and worry less. I have a MASS amount of pictures and I am slowly getting through them and editing them all (of course). I am working on a nice slide show but have to get permission first before I share it. And if you are adopting from COTP, Kelly and I tried very hard to make sure that we got at least one GOOD picture of every child. I have some really fantastic pictures of most of the children and I am anxious to get them all to you soon!

But... there might be a hold up because we put an official offer in on the Sonic Temple today! I know that what is meant to happen will we just feel like this may be a big opportunity for our family and its too good of an adventure to pass up. We certainly have our work cut out for us, but are definitely up for it. Now we just have to come to an agreement on price, get our house ready to list, list it, sell it, and then move! :) (Lots of variables and we are doing lots of praying.)

Much Love,

Sarah

Holy Angels Hospice Center

http://www.holyangelshaiti.blogspot.com/

(Sorry I am doing the mass update all at one time.)

But I had forgot to post the link to Holy Angels Hospice blog earlier. Before I left for Haiti I heard about this hospice care center in Haiti, in the PAP area. Please consider if you have a bit of extra time helping us to secure donations for this hospice, or even to help find medical care here in the States for some of the children. Keep them in your prayers! These are some of Haiti's most fragile little ones. We are currently working on a medical Visa for Catherine, who is three years old and needs a cleft repair. (This is Catherine in the picture!)

Thanks :)
Sarah

Update on Josiah

Here is an article written about Josiah:

http://www.theforecaster.net/story.php?storyid=9944

Thanks for your prayers!

Blessings,
Sarah

Hello From COTP :) :)

Hello everyone!
Sorry that I didn't take a moment to blog before now. I just felt like I was so wrapped in the moment (of course) that I wasn't able to wrap my head around the past couple days.
I miss my family so much, but its SO good to be here finally. It is great to meet in person the wonderful people who took care of Angeline and to finally meet Isaac and his friends and nannies. My time here is just too short and now that we are on the days until we leave countdown I find myself dealing with all of the feels and emotions that go along with that.
Isaac... WOW! I so wish that my husband and children were here to also meet him. He is so a part of our family it isn't even funny. He is really laid back and likes to be a part of all the action. I am really impressed with how well he is talking! He knows a lot of words and will try to repeat most everything that I say... he especially loves to say BYE BYE and BRAVO! He is really into music and loves when they get to watch a video, especially if it involves a lot of singing! :) It will be so hard to leave him here.
About being in Haiti... it feels really good. Mind you I am not going without many creature comforts here so it isn't hard to be here... I just feel great to be here and be able to enjoy this time. The last time was such a whirlwind with getting everything done I wasn't able to take it all in.
Everyone here has welcomed Kelly and I with open arms and have been so gracious. I will write more specifics when I get home, but I just can't say enough about how many roles the long term volunteers and directors here have.
I have been able to have some good conversations with Antonio and to show him and the nannies Angeline's pictures and give them lots of updates. This morning Katie took me to Milot Hospital where Angeline was found... more on that later. (Pictures too!)
I love all of the children, its really hard not to. They are all so beautiful of course. Speaking of the children, I had better go and get back to them. I promise tons more updates once I am home. (Next week.)
Hey family, I miss you all so much and love you so much too. Email me soon.
Adoptive Parents who are waiting: I encourage you all to come and visit here. It really helps give your heart peace to see where you child lives and meet the people who love them.
Blessings,
Sarah

Bean in Boots Update

I just love this wild baby picture of Angeline, it makes me smile. She screams sometimes and its funny to hear such LOUD noises coming out of such a little person. Remind me of that in 4 years. LOL

So on Friday we went and had the post surgery casts changed for Angeline. I had planned on taking some pictures of her feet but once they walked over with the "machine" to cut off the casts things kind of went downhill and a camera was the last thing on my mind. Previously we had been able to remove her casts before her re-casting appointments. But right now, the post surgery cast are hard and the kind that have to be cut off with the saw. This totally upset Angeline. The noise was loud and with her little legs vibrating she was just beside herself sobbing.

Sam is our guy. Our guy that puts on and takes off the casts. He is amazing. Well previously Angeline liked Sam, she would never cry when he talked to her, now Angeline doesn't like Sam. Even when he talks, she cries. He can talk on the other side of the room and she has a big pout lip, and hides her face, and sobs. Things are forever changed in the world of Bean and her Sam.

So we were a bit early. The pins in her feet, or "rods", were gruesome to look at. And her stitches are equally as disturbing... but she was so happy to be able to kick her legs around. I couldn't bear looking at them while we waited for Dr. M. at his regularly scheduled time so I wrapped her in her blanket and gave her some snuggles while we waited... next time I peeked down at her kicking legs, she had gotten one of the pins about half way out! EEEKKK!

So I called over Sam who wrapped some gauze and told Dr. M to hurry up. Dr. M came and SHOVED it back in. I looked away, Nina looked at it. OUCH and EWWW!

New PURPLE casts were put on and Angeline's feet are being turned "UP" now. At the end of the month she gets measured for her braces and one more set up casts before her braces are ready. Whoohoo!!

My sister was only pulled over once while we were in Seattle (for going left on a NO left turn) and only one of her windshield wipers broke. LOL It was quite the adventure.

I am ready to be done with the boots and on with the casts!

Blessings,

Sarah and Bean

Sonic Temple Update

We are going back shortly to have another look. OK so I have dragged Mindy, our realtor and friend, over to the Sonic about 8 times now. :)

A strange God moment happened last night. Robert and I went out to dinner and we were talking about what we would need to do to get our house on market (small repairs etc.) and what it will take to get the Sonic ready to be comfortable... and Robert brought up a guy that he had worked with before that was a home builder and that he was going to get his number and see if he would be able to go back there with us today...

Well Lo and Behold... in the guy walked through the door of the restaurant. God moment.

So today Pete will be going with us to give us a professionals perspective on the big move.

We are praying over what to do and will talk more about it tonight. We want to know whether we will be making an offer (won't offer until I get back from Haiti because we would only have THREE days to get our house on the market and we need at least a week to get everything ready)... but in case there is an offer while I am in Haiti I guess we need to know where I stand and what we would pay etc.

We ultimately know that if its meant to be it will happen. It sure would be a blessing to have SO much space. Praying!

Sarah

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love ya... Tomorrow...

YOUR ONLY A DAY AWAY!! Enjoy the new beautiful pictures of Isaac. I figured that I had better get these posted because surely I will have more NEW pictures of Isaac when I get back from Haiti...

One day until I leave for Haiti. I won't actually arrive in Haiti until Tuesday since I live the absolute furthest point away from Haiti in the continental USA. :)

I am a mix of emotions. I am so excited to meet Isaac, the staff at COTP and the other babies of course. I am actually looking forward to not being in rainy, gray weather.

The things I am not looking forward to: weighing in (eek!), airplanes (especially that little one), possibly peeing my skirt on the plane (TMI), and worrying about catching all my connecting flights and Kelly doing the same and both of us actually making it there. The really big thing that I am not looking forward to as ODD as this sounds is... the airplanes to Florida where I will be ALL ALONE, just me and the strangers on the plane. I am a talker. I want to have a friend or family member to talk to at all times, even a baby works! I just like "my people" with me. OK so I am taking the red eye and should be able to SLEEP and should ENJOY some time to myself. I know, I know!

The things that I am PHYSICALLY WORRIED ABOUT: Leaving my children for 10 days. Missing Dominick's 8th birthday on Tuesday (we are celebrating it with Danny's 18th birthday TODAY!) And about leaving my Angel. :( This is the big one. Why do I think that the entire world will crumble without me here? They are in very capable hands, my sister will be here during the week days, along with Leishan 19 and Danny 18, and my brother in law from time to time. Aunt Betsy is here for back up just in case. And my husband is a mere 4 hours away with work if he needs to come home, that will be fine. I have canceled all the appointments and extras for the time I am gone... and we have plenty of food and supplies. And my hubby will be here over the weekend. I just know that this is a lot to ask of my sister and I am SO grateful for her. We really have the most wonderfully supportive family. I hear all the time from other big families that they aren't so lucky. SO I am definitely counting my blessings.

Other random thoughts:

What if Isaac doesn't like me? What if all the kids love me BUT Isaac? I will be going as a volunteer so I will be playing with, loving on, and helping out with all the children or whatever they need me to do. But I want to be super special Sarah to my boy of course. (Ok so I do have THREE large bags of MM's just in case I am not the immediate favorite friend.) Shhhh! I promise not to ruin any meal times. :)

If its possible I am going to ask Katie if she will go with me to where she found Angeline. I would love to have a picture of the area near the hospital and actually SEE where that is. And just find closure. There is still this hankering, bothersome thing going on in my head. I guess I just want to have it all documented so that I can tell Angeline someday about all the miracles and blessings she has endured in her life. And of course to be there approximately one year later retracing the steps and finding that closure, that release of AHHH... breathe now, its all going to be ok. God does HAVE MY BACK...

So if they are going near there and if its not a hassle to go with everything else going on, that is something I would like to do.

Please read below for the other news and prayer requests. I am doing the mass update all at one time.

Love and Blessings,
Sarah

Prayer request

Please keep Baby Jesi and her Mom Margie and their family in your prayers. Jesula has taken a turn for the worse with her health and there are MANY questions as to what her future life will be like. There is a small glimmer of hope that things may work out just fine with her health situation and we really need to surround this baby and family with love and understanding and PRAYERS! So please lift them up with me!
Blessings,
Sarah

P.S. Short update on Josiah... he made it to Maine for his surgery. He is being very LOVED at the hospital of course and had his surgery yesterday morning. Keep him in your prayers as well and keep his host Mom in your prayers too!

Footsie progression pictures

We have Angeline's first post surgery follow up appointment tomorrow. They will be cutting off her hard casts this time. It will be the first time that we didn't take them off at home so I am hoping that she isn't too scared of the loud noise that the machine makes. I am also praying that her legs, ankles and feet look great because to me, they look fantastic before the surgery! I can't even imagine them any better! I believe that she has dissolving sutures but she might be getting the rods taken out tomorrow, so just keep her in your prayers. The re-casting in itself is at the point where its traumatic for her... hopefully we have two more casts and then leg braces and can be done with the casting forever! (Praying that we can be diligent enough and that her feet don't turn back!)

Angeline has been such a trooper since her surgery. She has had some trouble sleeping and tends to wake up in the middle of the night about 2am and want to stay away and then maybe have a cat nap before breakfast. I think that she is just ready to be done with the casts! She has been kicking her legs a ton and gets frustrating that she can't bend her knees to try and crawl.

Take note of her blowing kisses picture. That is her favorite past time, she even holds her hand to her mouth and BLOWS the kisses. :) Too cute.

Thanks for the prayers once again!
Sarah

P.S. We had some snow today and the snow needs to stay away for her appointment tomorrow! Since I am leaving on Monday for Haiti she HAS to make it there tomorrow!!!